Leg Exercise - Standing hamstring curl
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I'm going to show you a standing hamstring curl which is an easy way to do some lower
level hamstring strengthening which is the muscle on the back of your thigh here. So
want you want to do is to find something to hold on to for balance. It can be a chair,
counter top, anything that is sturdy. You're going to hold on there, you're going to bend
the knee of the leg that you are trying to strengthen. Keeping your thighs parallel to
each other; you're going to just bend your knee, up like this, like you're kicking your
bottom. You want to make sure that you don't let your knee creep forward, as you do this
exercise it should stay in line with your opposite thigh. You're just going to bring
it up, just like that and you should feel the muscle on the back of your thigh working.
If it's too easy you can strap on an ankle weight to add some more weight to your strengthening
exercise, and then do it with that ankle weight strapped on. So that's your basic hamstring
curl.
