Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / legs
Lying leg curl
Pad just above heels, hips flat on bench, curl through full range.
Muscles
- Primary
- hamstrings
- Supporting
- None listed
Mechanics
- Pattern
- knee flexion
- Equipment
- machine
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Hamstrings shorten against the pad; no hip lift until final rep.
- Progression
- Add load; introduce a 2s pause at peak contraction.
- Regression
- Seated leg curl if prone position causes low back compression.
Watch for
- Hips popping up to cheat range — removes hamstring stretch
- Jerking the concentric — tension lives in control
- Stopping short at the top — cuts peak contraction
Substitutions
- Seated leg curl
- Nordic curl
- Slider leg curl