Maintaining good posture and stretching your hip flexors and hamstrings will help keep the strain off your lower back. |
The squat primarily works the quadriceps muscles of the thighs and, secondarily, the abductors, adductors, hamstrings and gluteals. |
In the hip joint, the gluteus maximus and hamstrings muscles are strongly involved if you go sufficiently deep. |
Squeeze your glutes, hamstrings and quadriceps as you hold the pose for five deep breaths. |
The primary muscles of the hip joint are the gluteus maximus and hamstrings. |
My legs ache from the slope and the lunges that my trainer explained would work the quadriceps, hamstrings and glutes. |