This is a trick to be done on a leg curl machine. By merely changing where you grip your hands on the machine, you can improve your strength in the motion by as much as ten% instantly!

Lie face down on the bench as you usually would when doing the physical exercise. Rather of gripping the machine on the handles beneath the bench with your arms bent, extend your arms directly overhead in front and grab on to whatever is there. This is generally the frame on both aspect of the weight stack. Be conscious that this trick will not work if there is nothing there to grab – some machines just finish at the bench and have the weights stack to the aspect or behind.

Do your leg curls as you usually would but using this various grip. You ought to really feel stronger when doing them.

1 of the best ways to see this principle in action is to do a set as you usually would with your normal grip for about ten to 12 reps. When you cannot do any much more reps, switch to the grip as explained over. You ought to be in a position to get a few much more reps out.

When using this grip you ought to also discover that you can use a small much more weight than you usually do for reps.

The cause this trick works is that getting your arms directly removes your biceps as the restricting link in the physical exercise. It transfers the force through your stronger back muscle tissue instead, resulting in immediate elevated strength!

For info on how to do the leg curl physical exercise, go to http://www.fitstep.com/Library/Exercises/Leg_curls.htm

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Nick Nilsson is Vice President of BetterU, Inc., an on-line physical exercise, fitness, and individual coaching company. Examine out his latest E-book “The Greatest Exercises You’ve Never Heard Of” at http://www.thebestexercises.com or visit http://www.fitstep.com. You can get in touch with him at betteru@fitstep.com or subscribe to BetterU News, his fitness newsletter at betterunews@fitstep.com.