How To Do Leg Extensions With Tubing Video

Leg extensions work the quadriceps for physical therapy or exercise. Learn how to work out the lower body with leg extensions using tubing in this exercise video from a physical fitness trainer.

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Practice without resistance
Lift hamstrings slightly
Pull tighter for more resistance
Work 10-15 reps

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Carol Childers has been a physical fitness trainer for twenty three years. She is experienced in yoga, pilates, sports conditioning, core strength training and nutrition. She currently works with clients all over the country.

In this clip, we're going to show you how to do leg extensions, working the quadriceps and working down into the attachment of the knee. Great physical therapy, exercise, good for anybody to take time out and make sure they're truly strengthening the integrity of attachment into the knee. So you've seen this done in the gym with a leg extension machine. We're going to show you how to do it with little or no equipment, so you can practice first without resistance. And I always try to coach my clients into slightly lifting that hamstring off of the surface that they're sitting on. So they engage their core. You're looking straight ahead with a nice, neutral spine, but that forces you to really focus that contraction into the connective tissue here of the knee. So with resistance again wrapped around the ankle, we can pick it up a level and same principle applies. And the tighter I pull on it, the more resistance I'm going to get at the bottom of the movement, pushing the weight through the heel but not hyperextending the knee joint. Of course, we inhale before we start the movement; we exhale when we contract. And you want to work in about 10 to 15 repetitions, three sets each side.

How to Do Leg Extensions With Tubing Video

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