Performing exercises correctly can increase their benefits while decreasing your risk of injury. Pictures depicting exercises create a visual tool that helps you to better understand the proper method. A wide variety of knee exercises are readily available. Understanding some of the more basic exercises through descriptions and pictures can help you to improve your knee strength and function.
Single-Leg Pictures
According to Wellsphere.com, as portrayed by the pictures on its site, single-leg exercises strengthen the muscles directly related to the knee, such as the quadriceps and hamstrings, as well as the supporting muscles of the hips and glutes. Balance and proprioception, which is your body's ability to recognize where it is in space, also benefit from single-leg exercises. Single legged step-ups also provide these benefits when performed correctly.
Quadricep-Strengthening Pictures
The quadriceps is the group of four muscles located on the front of your thigh. This muscle group gives your knee stability. The rectus femoris tendon muscle of this group encases your kneecap before attaching to the tibia, which is the bone below the kneecap. FamilyDoctor.org provides pictures on how to correctly perform a straight leg raise and an isometric contraction, which is tightening your muscle without movement.
Variety of Pictures
The development of overall leg strength and flexibility can provide an increase in your knee function. According to Evamarie Pilipuf, who holds a variety of certifications in personal training and yoga, specific exercises target different muscle groups related to the knee. Squats tone the entire upper leg and low back, curls provide hamstring strengthening and lunges focus on the quadriceps muscle. The Tree of Fitness website includes pictures showing how to correctly perform these exercises.
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