If your knees are buckling, you are lifting too heavy and potentially you may have a muscular imbalance between the vastus lateralus and vastus medialis (or outer and
inner quadriceps muscles).
Proper conditioning (especially building up hamstrings and
inner quadriceps muscles) and teaching girls to pivot, jump, and land with flexed knees and employ a three - step with the knee flexed instead of a one - step stop with the knee extended have been shown to prevent some of these injuries.
Not exact matches
The lower body has
muscles in 8 major areas... the glutes,
quadriceps, hamstrings,
inner thighs, back of the calf, outside of the lower leg, shin, and foot.
There are 3 areas of the thighs — the
inner thigh (adductor
muscles), the front of the thigh (
quadriceps muscle), and the back of the thigh (hamstrings).
For example, the
quadriceps is a set of powerful
muscles that extend the leg (open the knee joint) and
muscles of the
quadriceps, like the vastus medialus, are major players in
inner thigh tone as well.
Dumbbell Reverse Lunges primarily work
muscles of the
quadriceps (in the front of your thigh), gluteus maximus in your buttocks, adductor magnus in your
inner thigh and the soleus in your calf.