Grab the seat of your chair to brace yourself and extend your legs straight out in front of you so they are parallel to the floor, then release slowly to work out your muscles.

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When asked why Mrs Richards was not in a splint with her legs straight as instructed in her medical notes, the nurse said that was the position she had been left in by the ambulance staff who had just transferred her from the Royal Haslar Hospital in Gosport.

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It somehow converts every erg of energy from my legs into straight ahead propulsion.

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It somehow converts every erg of energy from my legs into straight-ahead propulsion.

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But Van Barneveld became distracted in the fourth set - the last before the interval - and Fordham stepped in to reel off three straight legs.

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The England No.1 saw an Andy Carroll shot slip straight through his legs and into the net.

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The irrepressible Parker burst down the left and squared the ball for Barrera to shoot straight at Evatt's legs and Barrera was again involved as substitute Cole deflected a shot on to the post.

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Roger sits sprawled in the straight-back chair that rears back on its hind legs.

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The Brazilian carelessly knocked into the legs of Dempsey to concede the penalty but was reprieved when the American blasted straight at Cech's tall frame and then acrobatically blazed the rebound high and wide.

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The left-back, under no pressure, passed the ball across his own goal and straight into the path of Hleb, who advanced into the area and slotted the ball home via the legs of Kingson.

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