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Also known as: Resistance band knee flexion.

Technique

  1. Anchor an elastic band to a support, wrap the band around one of your ankles and lay face down on the ground with your feet pointed toward the anchor.
  2. Choose a distance where there is always some tension in the band.
  3. Bend your knee to bring your heel toward your buttocks.
  4. Repeat on both sides.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Hamstrings

Secondary

  • Legs
  • Hip adductors
  • Pelvis
  • Semitendinosus
  • Semimembranosus
  • Biceps femoris (short)
  • Biceps femoris (long)

Equipment

Appears in

Calisthenics skills
Joint movements
trains stretches

Progressions

e12d

Banded hamstring curl standing

Novice
e1by

Single-leg seated leg curl

Beginner
e1bx

Seated leg curl

Beginner
e116

Harop curl

Intermediate
e0ee

Nordic curl

Advanced
e15w

Band-resistance lying knee drive

Novice
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