Seated Leg Curls
Quick answer
Seated Leg Curls is a beginner isolation machine exercise that mainly works the hamstrings, with the calves assisting.
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Muscles worked
Primary
Secondary
How to do Seated Leg Curls
- 1
Select a weight and adjust the foot padding on the machine to match your height. Sit down on the machine and press the back of your ankles on the padding. Slightly tense the hamstrings to create tension by slightly lifting the weight off its resting point. This is your starting position.
- 2
By focusing on contracting the hamstring muscles, curl your legs down and towards your glutes. Curl as far your can.
- 3
Hold the contraction for a full second before slowly returning to the starting position.
Form cues
- When returning to the starting position, return the weight to just above its resting point to keep tension throughout the exercise.
- Perform the reps slowly and in a controlled manner. Technique first, weight second!.
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