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5 Best Leg Exercise at Home by Leg Machine

5 Best Leg Exercise at Home by Leg Machine

Going to the gym every day for a workout can be a challenge based on motivation, lifestyle, location, and time. It’s not for everyone. Some people prefer to work out at home, which saves money on gym memberships, childcare, and gas. It also saves time, with no commute, and prevents you from making some common excuses when you lack the motivation to get ready and go. The Harison leg extension machine can provide an excellent workout right from the comfort of your own home. Here are 5 excellent ways you can get a great lower body workout with leg machine without ever leaving the house.

1. 1 ¹/₄ Leg Extensions by Leg Machine

Start in a seated position, with your back pressed firmly into the back pad. Place your legs under the leg pad, knees bent at a 90-degree angle, with the pad resting on top of your ankles. This is your starting position. Keep your torso as still as possible and your feet flexed or in a neutral position. Extend your knees and push the pad upward until your legs are straight. You should feel the tension in the top part of your legs (quadriceps). Return to the starting position, while keeping your feet in position, repeat the movement for a quarter of the original movement, meaning only to raise your legs about a quarter of the way. Return to the starting position. This will count as one rep. You can make this more difficult as you progress by holding the legs straight at the top of the movement for a 2-3 second pause.

2. Bodyweight Squats

Begin with your feet positioned slightly wider than your shoulders with the toes turned outward. Keeping your torso upright, with a proud chest, lower your body to just below 90 degrees, so that your hips are slightly below your knees. Push your feet into the ground to rise back up to the starting position and repeat for the desired number of repetitions.  When pushing your feet into the ground, it’s important to create a tripod base, meaning your big toe, small toe and heel should all push firmly into the ground when lowering your body and rising, never letting your heel come off the ground. You can practice this move with a stool or small chair if you’re just starting out. Start by lowering yourself onto the chair for a quick tap, then rising again. You can progress this by adding weight or by pausing for 2-3 seconds before rising up to the starting position.

3. Lying Hamstring Curls by Leg Machine

Begin in a lying position with your chest pressed firmly into the pad and your hands gripping the sides of the pad. Place your legs under the leg pad, so that the pad is resting just above your heels. Keeping the glutes tight with feet in a flexed position, and your head looking down so that it is aligned with your spine, raise the pad so your heels travel upward towards your glutes. You should feel the tension in the back of your legs (hamstrings). Lower the pad and return to the starting position. Repeat for the desired number of repetitions. You can progress this by targeting your inner and outer hamstring fibers. Turn the feet inward to target the inner hamstrings, and turn the feet outward to target the outer hamstrings.

4. Reverse Lunges

Begin by standing with your feet hip-width apart. Bring your right leg back, driving your left knee forward to bend at a 90-degree angle, Your left foot should be pushed into the ground creating a tripod effect as we discussed earlier. Your right foot should be bent so that only your toes are pushing into the ground and your right knee is hovering just above the ground or a slight tap on a padded surface. Pushing your weight onto your front foot return to the starting position. You can either repeat this move on the same side or alternate with the other foot. You can practice this by staying in the lunge position and pulsing (static lunge) or progress this by adding weight. You should feel the tension in your quadriceps, hamstrings, and glutes.

5. Step-Ups

Step-ups are a great way to target the gluteus maximus. Begin by finding a secured stool, chair, or outdoor ledge that is a few inches off the floor. This should be a height that you can safely step up onto with one foot without falling. Feel free to use something to hold onto if you are a beginner. Stand directly in front of the chair, and place your right foot onto it, lift yourself up by placing your weight only on the right foot using a tripod base. Your left foot should rise off the ground and hang just over the chair. Slowly lower yourself back down to the starting position. You can either repeat on one side or alternate each rep. Progress this by holding a dumbbell or weight plate. You can also progress this by increasing the height of the surface you are stepping onto.

Sample Workout:

Superset: 3 Rounds

1 ¹/₄ Leg Extension 12 reps

Lying Hamstring Curls 12 reps

Triset: 3 Rounds

Bodyweight Squats 12 reps

Reverse Lunges 24 reps (12 each side)

Step-Ups 24 reps (12 each side)

Take a 30-second rest after each round and a 1-minute rest between the superset and triset.

• A superset is two exercises performed back to back with no rest.
• A triset is three exercises performed back to back with no rest.

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Workout benches are a good choice for staying fit and healthy while also having complete control over what you use them for. For example, a workout bench can be a good choice for senior people who require specialized care services at home. If you want a HARISON weight bench , there are several exercises you can do on them that will be great for building up your core muscles and keeping your entire body in shape. While there is also a 609-weight bench with leg extension that lets you perform different exercises to keep you fit.

Make sure that you find the best exercise bench that is perfect for your needs and has pads that won’t cause any discomfort when doing these five popular exercises:

BENEFITS OF WORKOUTS ON A BENCH

These types of workouts come with several different benefits, which include:

They let people build muscle fast. They provide more strength than most other forms of exercise. They allow individuals to carry out several different types of exercises comfortably. They are a good choice for staying active and fit while recovering from an injury. On the other hand, using a weight bench with leg extension also offers other benefits. For example, it can help you achieve better balance and coordination, as well as increase muscle mass in your thighs and glutes

EXERCISES TO TRY

If you want to try out some of these popular exercises, you need to ensure that your workout bench supports you and has suitable padding. All of the following five workouts will help ton-up certain parts of your body and increase strength: 1. Bench Press 2. Incline Press 3. Decline Press 4. Flys 5. Pullovers

BENCH PRESS

The bench press is a popular exercise that challenges the chest muscles and arms. You will lie down on a flat surface with a bar in front of you, slowly lower it down to your chest, and then press it back up with your arms.

INCLINE PRESS

The incline bench press is a great workout exercise similar to the traditional bench press, but instead of having a flat surface, you will work out on an inclined one with less than a forty-five-degree angle. You will lie down on this type of workout bench and push the bar away from you like you would with the traditional bench press. This incline weight bench can be adjusted to different positions, so you can customize your workout to match your needs.  It also has the removable feature, which made it have more possible workouts

DECLINE PRESS

A decline workout bench helps to reduce the stress that may be put onto your shoulders and provides an additional challenge for those who do this type of exercise. It is achieved by putting your feet higher than your head as you bring the barbell down to your chest.

FLY BENCH

For this exercise, you will need an exercise bench with two inclines to have a level surface for resting your arms on. You will start by lying down with your back flat against the workout bench and then raise both of your dumbbells with straight arms till they are level with each other. It is one repetition. Finally, please bring them back down but this time, don’t lift the weight as high as before and concentrate on squeezing all of the muscles in your chest when doing this movement.

PULLOVER BENCH

The pullover is another tough but effective exercise that helps to strengthen the shoulder, upper back, and chest muscles. You will need a workout bench with a barbell attached to it, which you will lie down under and lift with your arms till they are straight above your chest. Now, slowly lower the weight back down over your head but keep the elbows slightly bent as you do this before bringing it back up again. While the weight bench with the leg curl feature on this bench is adjustable, you can increase or decrease the amount of resistance as needed, such as it has a Bottom balance adjustment knob to adjust it accordingly.

Wrapping Up!

These types of workouts come with several different benefits, which include: They let people build muscle fast They provide more strength than most other forms of exercises They allow individuals to carry out several different types of exercises comfortably They are a good choice for staying active and fit while recovering from an injury.

Whether you want to build up your strength or stay fit and active, doing exercises with a workout bench is a good way of achieving this. By trying out these five workouts on a suitable workout bench, you will be able to achieve great results within just a few weeks.

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HARISON 609 Adjustable Weight Bench with Leg Extension and Preacher Pad

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Welcome to our HARISON fitness tips channel consisting of bodyweight-only, weight bench workouts! Here is a full-body workout by HR-609 weight bench. Let’s finish the workout and strong!

REFERENCE EXERCISES USING A WEIGHT BENCH

LEG CURLS

CONCENTRATION CURLS

How to do them – Sit on the side of the weight bench and sit with your knees apart. Bring your elbow down to your knee joint and position it so it sits securely on the side of your patella. With your wrist fixed, straight and facing outward towards your opposite leg, curl your forearm all the way up and back down, in a controlled manner.

What muscles they target – Biceps.

How a weight bench helps – By locking your arm into place using your knees, you optimise your bicep curls so they’re much more concise. A weight bench is a solid, flat surface for you to work out on.

DUMBBELL SHOULDER PRESS

Man performing a dumbbell shoulder press on a Mirafit exercise bench
How to do them – With the bench in an upright position, sit with your back firmly pressed into the weight bench. Ground your feet firmly into the ground and bring your arms up so your elbows are at right angles, and your shoulders are in line with your back. With a smooth, controlled motion, push the dumbbells up and in so that they meet when your arms are straight. Lower back down and take back into your starting position.

What muscles they target – Deltoids, supraspinatus, triceps, trapezius, pecs.

How a weight bench helps – The weight bench stops your arms from moving out of line so you can be much more precise when you work out. However, by allowing you to move naturally, the weight bench isn’t as constrictive as a resistance machine.

SKULL CRUSHERS (LYING TRICEP EXTENSIONS)

fitness expert doing skull crusher exercises using mirafit gym equipment
How to do them – With the bench in a flat position, lie back as you would for a bench press. Take the dumbbell so it’s positioned above your head. Hex weights are great for this exercise as you can hold on to the rubber weight securely. Ensure your elbows are tucked in so you can target your triceps. Then, keeping your arms bent, lift the weight up and over until your elbows meet

What muscles they target – Triceps.

How a weight bench helps – Provides a solid, flat base for you to train from.

DUMBBELL ROW

Fitness expert doing a single hand dumbbell bent over row on a Mirafit weight bench
How to do them – Stand to the side of the weight bench with the closest knee to the bench resting on the seat. Bend over and support your weight with the arm that’s closest to the bench, keeping it straight. With your outside arm, bring the weight up so you thumb meets your armpit. Squeeze your back muscles as you reach the top, then lower back down.

What muscles they target – Lats, rhomboids, rear deltoids and trapezius.

How a weight bench helps – Provides a solid, flat base for you to train from supporting your weight while you isolate and focus each side in turn.

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The coach always asks the people to activate the muscles before fitness, but some people equate the muscle activation with the warming up. It takes more than 10 minutes to run and warm up before fitness. But when we do strength training, we actually need to do some related muscles relax and activate.

What is muscle activation?

In fact, the term “activation” refers to stimulating muscles so that they can better exert their strength and functions.

Muscle activation means: awakening and activating the proprioceptors in the muscles, thereby adjusting the working state of the muscles, and improving the awareness and movement of the muscles.

Muscle activation does not only exist in the warm-up phase, in fact it can run through your entire training process.

Why do muscle activation?

Muscles have contractility and toughness. Inactive muscles are mainly manifested in muscle shortening, hyperextension, lengthening, and atrophy, which affect the effect of fitness.

01  The body exerts force compensation in order to maintain balance

No matter whenever, our body must maintain balance. In daily life, some of our bad habits, bad standing and sitting posture will cause our muscle strength to be imbalanced. Some muscles remain tense all year round and over-participate in physical activity. At the same time, there will be some muscles that should be involved in activities but have been lazy for a long time.

For example, the abdominal muscles and erector spinae maintain our core balance. Taking a sedentary party as an example, sitting for a long time every day, the abdominal strength is insufficient, and you will not use the abdominal force and forget the abdominal contraction function, so in order to maintain the balance, it is necessary to use the erector spinae muscles of the back to withstand greater pressure.As time passes, the waist cannot stand, also cause lumbago.

02  Poor joint compensation due to insufficient muscle tone

Muscles are flexible and resilient. However, some long-term postures cause muscle hyperextension or shortening, which will reduce its tension. The direct consequence is that the joints involved in the under-tension muscles have insufficient flexion and extension capabilities.

Taking the sedentary people as an example, long-term sitting causes the iliopsoas muscles to be compressed, and the hip muscles and hamstrings are elongated. The muscle tension in these two parts is insufficient, which ultimately leads to insufficient hip flexion ability. When doing squats, in order to squat down, the lumbar spine compensatory bends, causing the pelvis to turn over, which is easy to cause back pain. The heavier the weight, the greater the damage to your lumbar spine.

Just like when we lift heavy objects, the best way is to squat down and lift heavy objects. Some people have insufficient hip flexion ability and can only bend over to lift heavy objects, which will cause damage to the lumbar spine.

03  Incorrect muscle power, the training effect is greatly reduced

Compensation also reduces the stimulation of the target muscle, and some muscle balance is lost.

For example, the dumbbell fly did not exercise the high deltoid muscle, but the upper trapezius muscle got more exercise, which led to its abnormal development.

For another example, when you sit for a long time, the buttocks are loose and there is no sense of strength, the leg muscles will replace the buttocks, causing the leg muscles to be used too much, so when many girls go to practice the buttocks, only the thighs can feel, but the buttocks are basically not get it, the last is fat legs without buttocks.

How to activate muscles in different conditions?

Muscle inactivation is usually manifested in muscle shortening, hyperextension, lengthening, and atrophy. In response to different problems, the muscles are effectively activated.

Stretch and massage the tight and shortened muscles to restore their proper length and toughness, such as stretching the iliopsoas with long lunges, stretching the erector spinae with Dabai, and massaging the calves.

Perform isolation training or static training on excessively elongated muscles to restore the muscles to their original state, such as stimulating the buttocks muscles with the glute bridge, V-shaped support, and curling to stimulate the abdominal muscles.

Many people use 20 minutes to activate their muscles before training. Don’t look at the warm-up and just the seemingly useless movements, but just because these movements protect your joints and protect your muscles, so take care to spend some time on muscle activation and you will get unexpected results.