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Originally Posted by westside24
Nevermind the Quote I didnt wanna quote you, I juist wanted your attention.......
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Okay. You have my attention. I would not lift my legs up when lifting, although I do understand why you're doing it. You are doing it exactly for the reason that many trainers (at our club) support people doing their exercises while seated when their legs cannot touch the ground: Because you use your core more.
However, it depends on your goals and the current state of your back and any potential weaknesses in your back. Legs dangling is not stable. Legs crossed and you risk uneven development (yet I still see crossed legs at the gym,....). Feet not touching the floor will limit your grounding and support, preventing you from lifting as heavy as you might otherwise.
Personally I bag the minimal core work you get to focus more effort on my lifts, (your core works in all lifts anyway, especially the more you use free weights, and you end up using your core in a more functional way).
I do, I must say, have people cross their ankles if they insist on using a machine (like our handy dandy X-Press Line) that has most people dangling their feet over the edge because in doing so, it releaves the pull on the lumbosacral area of your spine.
Just try it both ways and see. You can FEEL a dramatic release of pressure on your spine when you cross your ankles instead of dangling your legs & feet straight.
This is a very different scenario than you hiking your legs up from the
hip flexors and drawing your knees inward. (But personally I'd avoid that, and any other position which may contribute to kyphotic posture, even if it's temporary,...and before someone jumps on me for saying kyphotic, watch the whole spine in this movement and note how the dorsal spine reacts when reverse lordosis occurs in the lumbars).
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