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The quadriceps muscles include the rectus femoris and the vastus lateralis, vastus intermedius and vastus medialis. The origin of the rectus femoris is the anterior inferior iliac spine, and the ...

The step-up with deliberate co-activation resulted in greater activation of the hamstrings, greater co-activation indices for semimembranosus-vastus medialis and biceps femoris-vastus lateralis ...

Comprised of four individual muscles (rectus femoris, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus intermedius), the quads ...

Methods: Eight healthy young adult volunteers without history of knee or quadriceps injury participated. Surface EMG data were collected from the vastus medialis oblique (VMO), vastus lateralis (VL), ...

[25] The muscle fiber orientation with respect to the femoral shaft was a mean of 43° for the vastus medialis and 63° for the vastus medialis obliquus. This is a smaller disparity than that ...

They are called quads because they consist of four individual muscles; rectus femoris, vastus medialis, vastus lateralis and vastus intermedius.

Elevating your heels places far more emphasis on your quads than a regular squat, particularly on the vastus medialis – the teardrop-shaped muscle on the inside of the thigh that extends to your ...