Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / legs
Seated leg curl
Knee aligned with pivot, thigh pad locked, toes relaxed.
Muscles
- Primary
- hamstrings
- Supporting
- None listed
Mechanics
- Pattern
- knee flexion
- Equipment
- machine
- Geometry
- Variable Range
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Hamstrings pull the pad down without hips lifting.
- Progression
- Add slow eccentric before adding stack weight.
- Regression
- Reduce range if cramping or hip lift appears.
Watch for
- Seat set too far
- Rushing the eccentric
Substitutions
- Lying leg curl
- Slider leg curl
- Nordic curl