Exercise of the Week (10/13/10) - Supported Functional Reach

Hello Everyone! I am going to be posting an exercise each week that either I suggest often or that you may have never tried before. I will also suggest a difficulty level. I will grade it on a 1-5 scale (1=easy, 2-3=challenging, 4=advanced, and 5=athlete level).  Add them to your workouts and see if you feel that muscle you haven't felt before!

Supported Functional Reach

Difficulty Level: 3

Major Muscles Worked: Thighs, Glutes, Core

Supported Functional Reach

Purpose:

_ Train buttock and thigh muscles.

_ Dynamically stretch the back of your hip.

Procedure:

_ Stand in front of a bar or handle.

_ Reach one leg straight back as far as possible.

_ The other leg that you are standing on should

flex at the knee while the thigh approaches

horizontal (see Fig. a).

Common errors:

_ Bending at the waist without flexing the support

leg’s knee.

_ Gripping too hard.

ARTICLE IN fitness training: The functional reach

What you should feel:

_ Buttock and thigh effort along with buttock

stretching.

Liebenson, C. Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies (2006) 10, 159–162