Lying Leg Curl (Machine)
Lie face down on a machine and bend the knees to pull a padded roller toward the hips. Also called Leg Curl and Hamstring Curl.
- Pattern
- Legs
- Equipment
- Machine
- Works
- Hamstrings
- Loads
- Knees
If something hurts
Not medical advice. Sharp pain, numbness or swelling needs someone qualified to look at it.
Each swap below spares one joint.
Hamstrings through the hip, with the knee held straight.
How Swolver coaches it
This lift is read from your own sessions. When it goes flat for four weeks, Swolver names the likely cause in plain words, such as weekly sets that dropped, and the one change to make. The rules are all on the method page.