A trainer shows how to do kneeling leg curls with proper foot position. Plantarflex your foot instead of dorsiflexing it to isolate your hamstrings and avoid recruiting your calves. Drive your quads into the machine for stability, and this position matters for injury rehab since most hamstring injuries happen in plantarflexion.
The correct way to do a kneeling leg curl. Some considerations that you want to make is foot position and foot placement. So right now she's using a dorsiflex position with her foot, which is fine, but she's getting a lot more recruitment from the calf and from the lower leg to help her curl up. So to eliminate this, what we're going to get her to do is point her foot down into a plantarflex position, which is going to make it— and you can already see she's struggling a little bit more in the plantarflex position because the stability aspect is eliminated. But from an injury rehabilitation point of view and from a strength point of view, most people injure themselves in plantar flexion, not in dorsiflexion. The other cue we're going to make here is I want you to drive your quad into the machine as hard as you can and curl. Good. And you can already see that actually created a bit more force for her because we're creating more stability when we do that. Perfect. Just give us one more. Excellent.
