Lying Leg Curls

Legs · Machine

How to do it

Face down with the roller just above your heels and your hips pressed into the bench. Curl to the end of the range and lower under control without letting your hips lift. You feel the whole hamstring, especially near the knee. The classic mistake is lifting the hips to get further: that is your back working, not your hamstring.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

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