*Rectus. Stupid auto correct, but I figured y’all would of got what I meant.
Or are a combination of full active ROM unilateral and bilateral movements for hypertrophy?
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08-31-2021, 09:20 PM #1
Do you NEED leg extensions for the textual femoris?
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08-31-2021, 09:41 PM #2
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Maybe it depends on your own leg anatomy?
I'm tall and have these long legs, and I can't really hit my rectus femoris without either leg extensions or sissy squats.► Intermediate Bodybuilding Classic Physique ► Renaissance Periodization Programming
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08-31-2021, 10:24 PM #3
I like them cause you also have the option of lowering the weight, and doing one leg at a time, and getting truly brutal isolation for the quad - but it does make the set take a bit longer to work both legs that way. I like when exercises allow for less weight required to produce a good stimulus though. I work out at home so I mean I don't have a commercial gym's amount of resources, so if I can use less to burn more, i'm all for that.
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It is a bi-articulate muscle (spans both knee and hip joints) which means it is not trained well by movements which have both knee and hip extension at the same time.
It gets used for example when kicking a football (which is hip flexion and knee extension).
So you need to anchor one joint or the other join. Leg extension and sissy squat keep hip fixed. Maybe situps train it..? I haven't tried keeping the knee fixed.
Perhaps you could do some kind of kicking movement with a cable or band for resistance attached to your ankle.
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09-01-2021, 02:41 AM #7
Single leg lunge with bench and dumb bells
Pistol squats
Sissy squats
In physical therapy after my knee surges, Id sit on a bench and use a weighted cable machine to extend my knee back and forth
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There have been studies that would say yes
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09-30-2021, 09:52 AM #13
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Aye..
As sp said.
Its a case of simple biomechanics.
Squat patterns ain't the winner here.
Simplest way! You need either knee extension without hip involved Or hip flexion without knee involvement.
Basically gives you leg extensions, proper sissy squats or leg raises to a degree and any splash over you get from just quad work in general.
If you can do fully flat (hips in extension) sissy squats in the bench. That would be the quad equivalent of a nordic. As s would make you a legit freak!FMH crew - Couch.
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