Sentences with phrase «a117 magnus»

quam magnus numerus Libyssae harenae lasarpiciferis iacet Cyrenis» Catullus, 7 Silph - bearing Cyrenaica, said a poet, Alluding to a plant now long extinct.

Rumours round the Whitehall bazaars suggest that since his elevation to a reduced role as Foreign Secretary the great man is unlikely to finish the old magnus opus.

Supposed to be his great magnus opus it was disappointing, not least to him.

In 15 years he has led 170 expeditions and documented more than 500 previously unknown species of creatures, including Microgale nasoloi, a tiny hedgehog - like tenrec that feeds on insects and scurries about the forest floor; Heteroscorpion magnus, a giant scorpion that hides in rock crevices in the northeastern part of the island; and Cryptosylvicola randrianasoloi, a tiny, sparrowlike warbler that lives high in the forest canopy.

This will also stimulate the activation of your adductor magnus.

Since you have to extend your knees and hips in order to stand up from the bottom of a squat, your quads, glutes, hams and adductors magni have to contract hard enough to produce the required knee and hip extension torque.

The adductor muscles include the adductor magnus, minimus, brevis and longus, which are located around your inner thigh region and are responsible for bringing your legs together, so they contract whenever you need to draw your leg toward your body's midline.

This movement will actually strengthen your whole posterior chain by making the gluteus muscles, hamstrings and adductor magnus work together synergistically to extend the hips, while the lower back extensors take the role of stabilisers.

This squat variation effectively targets all areas of the glutes while also engaging the hams, gastrocnemius, soleus and adductor magnus.

The Inner Thigh also referred to as the adductor group consists of 5 muscles — pectineus, adductor brevis, adductor longus, adductor magnus, and gracilis.

Intervention — any acute study assessing the muscle activity of the adductors (adductor group, adductor magnus, or adductor longus) during the squat exercise

However, increases in muscle fascicle length are also likely dependent on the mechanical load incurred by the prime mover, as knee flexion (hamstring only) exercise seems to lead to greater adaptations in the hamstrings than hip extension (hamstring, gluteus maximus, and adductor magnus) exercise, even when muscle length at peak contraction is shorter (Bourne et al. 2016).

The hamstrings are the primary target, with the gluteus maximus and adductor magnus as the synergists and the erector spinae as the stabilizer.

Assessing in flexion also removes any additional restriction coming from the external rotators that cross the hip joint at the front (e.g. iliopsoas, sartorius, pectineus and adductors brevis and magnus).

Given the equal roles of the hip and knee extensors in this exercise, it is difficult to identify whether the effects of squat training achieves improvements in COD ability through increases in quadriceps or hip extensor (adductor magnus, gluteus maximus, and hamstrings) muscle size.

Németh and Ohlsén (1985) reported that the adductor magnus muscle moment arm length for hip extension was just 1.5 — 2.4 cm in the anatomical position, compared to 6.1 — 6.8 cm for the hamstrings, and 7.5 — 8.1 cm for the gluteus maximus, while Dostal et al. (1986) reported muscle moment arm lengths of 3.9 cm and 5.8 cm for the middle and posterior portions, respectively.

Although traditionally only deadlift and lunges are used for training the hip extensors (medial and lateral hamstrings, gluteus maximus, and adductor magnus), there is evidence that some exercises emphasize each of these muscle groups to a different extent, and also that some exercises target different regions within each of the muscles more than others.

Dostal et al. (1986) reported that the adductor magnus displayed muscle moment arm lengths of -0.3 cm (i.e. external rotation) and 0.4 cm (i.e. internal rotation) for the middle and posterior portions, respectively.

This makes the adductor magnus the most effective hip extensor in hip flexion, which corresponds to the bottom of the squat movement.

Studies have investigated the effects of stance width and weight belt usage during back squats on adductor magnus EMG amplitude (Zink et al. 2001; Paoli et al 2009).

To learn how to isolate and target the lower glutes, hamstrings, and adductor magnus, stand near a wall for balance, rotate one leg far inward, and then, keeping the knee straight, lift the foot off the floor and move it back a little so its toes point toward the opposite heel.

However, the adductor magnus displayed a much greater moment arm length in 90 degrees of hip flexion than in full hip extension, which may indicate that this muscle has an important contributory role to hip extension moment in this position.

The adductor magnus is most active between 0 — 45 degrees, the adductor longus and gracilis are most active at 45 degrees, and the pectineus is most active at 90 degrees.

Garrett et al. (1984) explored the muscle fiber type of the adductor magnus.

Similarly, studies in normal healthy males using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans have reported very high values for the adductor magnus of around 599.2 ± 79.4 cm ³ and much smaller values for the adductor longus (182.5 ± 18.0 cm ³) and the other adductors (from 72.0 ± 9.1 to 111.3 ± 16.6 cm ³)(Miokovic et al. 2012).

The large and powerful adductor magnus is more pennated, at around 16 degrees (Ward et al. 2009).

The adductor magnus originates on the ramus of the pubis, the ramus of the ischium, and the ischial tuberosity on the pelvis.

This may imply that hip extension movements operating at large degrees of hip flexion are more likely to require greater hamstring and adductor magnus involvement and less gluteus maximus involvement, while hip extension movements operating close to full hip extension are more likely to require greater gluteus maximus involvement.

The adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor brevis and pectineus display similar fascicle lengths, while the gracilis is much longer and the obturator externus is much shorter.

Although there is some variation between these smaller adductors, the major difference is between the adductor magnus and the other muscles, with the adductor magnus being much larger than the others.

This important study provides some insight into how the different regions of three of the hip extensor muscle groups (medial and lateral hamstrings, and adductor magnus) are worked by the leg curl and the lunge.

Hip extension movements operating at large degrees of hip flexion are likely to require greater adductor magnus involvement and less gluteus maximus involvement, while hip extension movements operating close to full hip extension are more likely to require greater gluteus maximus involvement and less adductor magnus involvement.

The adductor magnus also helps you keep your thigh rolled in, with the help of other inner thigh muscles and one outer hip muscle (the gluteus medius).

The adductor magnus is a very large muscle, with cadaver studies indicating that its cross-sectional area in elderly people spans from 11.65 — 26.9 cm ² (Pohtilla et al. 1969; Ito et al. 2003).

Traditionally, the adductor magnus has been divided into two regions, an adducting region and an extending region, described variously as posterior vs. middle (as here), pubofemoral vs. ischiocondylar, or (true) adductor vs. «hamstring» regions.

Whether the adductor magnus displays greater EMG activity in greater degrees of hip flexion is unclear.

Moreover, as Németh et al. (1985) showed, the moment arm length does not change substantially with hip joint angle, as is observed for the other major hip extensors, the gluteus maximus and adductor magnus.

The muscle moment arms in adduction for the adductor magnus exceed those of hip extension, showing that this muscle is still definitively a hip adductor as well as a hip extensor.

The adductor magnus has a large hip extensor muscle moment arm, making it an unappreciated hip extensor, while the other adductors are hip flexors.

Ito et al. (2003) found that the gluteus maximus, adductor magnus, and vastus lateralis weighed 573.4 g, 452.6 g and 320.5 g, respectively.

Although there is some variation between these smaller adductors, the major difference is between the adductor magnus and the other muscles, with the adductor magnus being much heavier.

This suggests that the lunge is a superior exercise for the adductor magnus than the leg curl.

Hip extension moments are the products of the gluteus maximus, hamstrings and adductor magnus muscle forces and their associated moment arm lengths.

The hamstrings and, to some extent, the adductor magnus (a large muscle of the inner thigh) are hip extensors that can help the gluteus maximus.

Neither stance width nor weight belt usage has been found to affect adductor magnus EMG amplitude.

In contrast to these findings, Pressel & Lengsfeld (1998) somewhat surprisingly did not identify any hip extension role for the adductor magnus.

Hip extension movements at large degrees of hip flexion are likely to require greater adductor magnus involvement and less gluteus maximus involvement, while hip extension movements close to full hip extension are more likely to require greater gluteus maximus involvement and less adductor magnus involvement.

In contrast, the adductor magnus is only a moderate hip extensor when the hip is extended.

Several of the inner thigh muscles people want to tone for appearance's sake, the gracillus, and the adductor magnus, for example, are called adductors.

The adductor magnus, adductor longus, adductor brevis, gracilis all have substantial hip adduction muscle moment arms.