Know Your Muscles - The Lower BodyWritten by Rick Mitchell
Becoming familiar with muscles that make up your body has more benefits than simply allowing you to talk shop with your training partners. The more familiar you are with muscles you're working, better you'll be able to judge what's needed to make improvements. In this article we'll get to know muscles that make up lower body.This is where you'll find big, strong muscles that allow us to get around. The main muscles found below waist are as follows: 1. Quadriceps femoris - this is a group of four muscles found at front of thigh. These are vastus lateralis on outside, vastus medialis on inside, vastus intermedius between them, and rectus femoris above them. The role of these muscles is to extend leg from a bent position.
| | Exercise The Right Way - The Back SquatWritten by Rick Mitchell
Other articles in this series looked at a number of exercises, mainly from perspective of developing a comprehensive muscle building program. Sometimes we take things for granted, especially when it comes to performing basic exercises that constitute core of most bodybuilders' training regimes.It is useful, therefore, to describe in detail processes involved in actually doing these exercises. This will help beginners to start out using correct techniques before moving on to potentially more dangerous heavy weights. If it also helps more experienced lifters to redress some of little faults that have almost imperceptibly crept in over years, all better. In this article we'll take a close look at back squat. MUSCLES TARGETED: gluteus maximus, semimembranosus, semitendinosus, biceps femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius, vastus medialis, rectus femoris STARTING POSITION Grasp bar with a closed pronated grip. Step under bar and position feet parallel to each other. Place bar in a balanced position on upper back and shoulders. Hold chest up and out. Pull scapulae toward each other. Tilt head slightly up. Extend knees and hips to lift bar. Take one or two steps. Place feet shoulder width apart, even with each other with toes pointed slightly outward. This is starting point for all repetitions.
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