IS
THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE “QUADS” AND “THIGHS”?
This question was prompted by
an article last week WHICH IS BEST SQUAT OF LEG PRES and the answer is yes. There is a big
difference.
The “thigh” is made up of
many muscles. Among those are the four parts of the “quads” (quadriceps) .
Others include the hamstrings on the rear of the thigh, made up of three separate
muscles, and the groin muscles, made of five separate muscles called adductors.
So the “thigh” is very complex group of
muscles.
And the thing is, most people
only train a small portion of the muscle in the thigh and then wonder why they
don’t have legs like Tom Platz.
TOM PLATZ
Many of the muscles in the
three separate groups of muscles in the thigh can be trained using the same (usually
compound) exercises by simply changing the width of the stance or a change in
foot position during the exercise. But you need a basic understanding of what
each muscle does. It sounds complicated but it’s really not. Stand in front of
a full length mirror and move you leg in all directions ( forward, backward, in
(together), out (apart), rotate left, rotate right, bend at the knee, straighten
at the knee) and put your hand on your leg so you feel the muscles and you’ll
get a feel for what you need to do to work each muscle.
But there a too many muscles
and movements to cover in one article so, over the next few days we’ll cover
each one separately; what they do and how to train them.
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