Lower Extremity Exercises

HooD · Post by **HooD** » 07 Nov 2004 17:02

Below are links to exercises for your ankles, knees, and hips. First link is to the main page to where you can choose which area of the leg you want to exercise, bottom 3 links are direct links to each page.

Physical Wellness

Ankle Strengthening

Knee Strengthening

Hip Strengthening

shredj · Post by **shredj** » 07 Nov 2004 17:41

nice. thanks this will definitely come in handy

david · Post by **david** » 07 Nov 2004 17:42

good work. ill try some of these.

mosher · Post by **mosher** » 07 Nov 2004 18:18

wow, great stuff John! I have actually been thinking about this stuff recently and it was on my to-do list to search for this crap and here you have condensed it into easy to digest chunks, thanks!

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 07 Nov 2004 19:04

Hey John, ever since you've mentioned that you're going into physical/athletic(??) therapy(? -- something like that?) I've been really really interested and actually really wish I could have the last 4 years of my life back to start over and screw this fine arts crap. I am REALLY REALLY interested in how the body works and all that jazz -- it becomes so much more interesting once you start doing all these stretches and actually feeling where all your muscles are. I give my girlfriend massages all the time and I feel that I have a basic grasp of how the muscles work and I think that's so neat! I also find it helps make my drawings more interesting and more fun to actually know how to render a figure knowing how each muscle connects to the bone, overlaps other muscle and stretches to move at a joint. So great! It's sooo great that you're doing this for the sport!! Will you be my personal trainer??? @_________@

I'm going to try a couple of those stretches. I have ankle weights that leak sand and aren't very heavy so my athletic therapist told me to tie a bag to my ankle and fill it with STUFF until it gives enough resistance(?) -- that's not really bad for my ankle, is it? I use a safeway bag and a couple 2-3lb dumbell(?) weights.

lightningbolt · Post by **lightningbolt** » 07 Nov 2004 20:01

Wow! Nice work John! This is going to help me alot. Thanks

comastalker · Post by **comastalker** » 09 Nov 2004 01:43

@chan :

I'm doing a lot of drawings and especially 3d modelling work (humans and other creatures) and I have to say that -at least in aspects of realism- studying muscle- and bonestructure can harm your drawings (that ain't no joke). I don't want to tell you not to do it, but remember that you cannot see 90% of the human musculature and 60% of the human bone structure. A good artist is not an artist who knows all muscles, but who knows which muscles he has to know (you can find theory about that on the inet; even if you're drawing you may find theory about human modeling useful).
Especially when modelling humans many artists have problems to distinguish muscles from visible structure.