Sentences with phrase «medial head»

Since it's done with a straight leg, it primarily targets the gastrocnemius, putting tension on both the lateral and medial heads of the muscle and giving them thickness and definition.

The lateral and medial heads originate from the lateral and medial sides (respectively) of the distal posterior femur.

The lateral and medial head start under the shoulder and end at the elbow, while the long head runs from the shoulder blade and attaches to the elbow.

It hits all three heads of the triceps, but emphasizes the lateral and medial heads slightly more than the long one, while also working your shoulders, abs and upper back.

The lateral head appears to display the greatest pennation angle, followed by the long then medial head.

It appears that during isometric contractions at 80 % of maximum voluntary isometric contraction (MVIC), the heads of the triceps start to fatigue at 50, 40 and 65 seconds, for the lateral, long and medial heads respectively.

They reported that the triceps brachii medial head displays significantly different muscle activity during all regions, insofar as during each region muscle activity is greater during the counter-movement condition compared with the concentric - only condition, and the greatest difference is during the sticking region.

Perform stretches with your toes pointed in followed by stretches with your toes pointed out, in order to elongate both the lateral and medial heads of the muscle.

If you want to stress your medial heads instead of the other ones, position your arms down by your sides and take an underhand grip.

If you want to put extra pressure on your medial heads, throw in some reverse grip pushdowns in your workout and make sure that you always get the full contractions when you're doing any triceps exercise.

This is redundant as both of these exercises hit the lateral heads while completely neglecting the long and medial heads.

Triceps dips on a dip bar are the best choice for hitting the medial head of the triceps.

Even more so, the medial heads will have pressure on them no matter what triceps exercise you do, up until you fully extend your arm.

When it happens that you have two pushdown exercises in one workout, make sure that one of them has an overhand or a parallel grip for the lateral heads, and the other has an underhand grip for the medial heads.

The lateral head is best targeted with a supinated (palms up) or neutral (hands facing each other) grip and the medial head with a pronated (palms down) grip — the long head, which assists in shoulder extension, gets maximum activation when the arm is raised during extension exercises.

The triceps, on the other hand, consists of three heads: the long head, the medial head and the lateral head.

The lateral raise is an excellent muscle builder on its own, but performing it with cables will allow you to place constant tension on the medial head of the delts that will result with better gains.

After this you can continue with exercises that target the lateral and medial head.

The triceps consists of three muscles or heads that work together to extend the elbow: the medial head, which runs down the middle of the rear arm, the lateral head on the outside posterior arm; and the long head running along the inside posterior arm.

Here's a useful tip: before you start the movement, place the dumbbells at your sides, do not place them in front of the thighs, forcing the medial head of the deltoid to do the brunt of the work.

After exhausting your medial heads, it's time to focus on the posterior region, and the reverse machine fly is the ultimate movement for that purpose.

The medial head starts on the posterior part of the humerus also.

«Tri» + «cep» literally, means «3 heads», and there are 3 parts to this one muscle — a long head, a lateral head, and a medial head.

If you want to sound clever then say you have a «grade 2 lesion at the MTJ of the medial head of the gastrocnemius»!

consists of a long, lateral and medial head.

The more superficial heads of the triceps — the lateral and long heads — are composed predominantly of fast - twitch muscle fibers, which means they respond well to heavier loads and lower reps. Whereas, the deeper part of the triceps — the medial head — is more slow - twitch in its muscle fiber composition; accordingly, it tends to respond better to lighter loads and higher reps.

The lateral head originates from the proximal posterior humerus, with the medial head arising more distally but having a broader attachment on the lower two - thirds of the arm.

The medial head is the thick part below the lateral head and above the elbow.

Both lie superficial to the medial head, and their proximal attachments lie deep to the posterior deltoid.

The medial head is underneath these two and attaches at the elbow and towards the top of the humerus.

This triceps exercise works primarily the long and medial heads of the triceps.

The arm raises work the medial head of the deltoid muscles, that is the shoulders.

To emphasize the medial head, externally rotate your hips to point your toes out.

The gastrocnemius has two heads: the lateral head and the medial head, which is the longer of the two.

There's no stance that will train the lateral more than the medial head.

The medial head originates on the posterior tibia and the lateral head on the posterior fibula.

Tennis leg is a tear or rupture of the plantaris muscle and possibly the medial head or inside of the gastrocnemius muscle which is the larger of the two calf muscles.

Of course, the middle is as important as they are — it's called a medial head — and it gives you the power to lift your arms to the side.

Side laterals are an isolation exercise and will shift the majority of the stress to the medial head of the shoulder.

They reported PCSA measures of 4.13 cm2, 3.60 cm2 and 3.21 cm2 in each the lateral, long and medial heads, respectively.

The medial head originates lower on the humerus on the medial and posterior aspect and lies deeper to the long and lateral heads (Madsen et al. 2006).

The heads run parallel to the humerus as the long and lateral head converge to a common tendon while the medial head lies deeper before sharing a common tendon for insertion on to the olecranon.

The lateral head of the triceps is heavily pennated but the long and medial heads are only moderately pennated.

They reported average fascicle lengths for the lateral, long and medial heads of 82.5, 136.5 and 120.0 mm, respectively.

Additionally, another study by Kawakami et al. (1993) that measured 32 males ranging in physical activity status (untrained to bodybuilders) found that the pennation angle ranged widely between 15 and 53 degrees in the long head of the triceps compared to 9 to 26 degrees in the medial head, respectively.

The triceps (more correctly the triceps brachii) muscle is generally thought to consist of three distinct parts — the medial head, the lateral head and the long head — which display overlapping roles and muscle activity depending on the joint range of motion of the shoulder and elbow.

The triceps muscle has three distinct parts: the medial head, the lateral head, and the long head.

There is a long head, medial head, and lateral head.

The medial head is on the inside of the arm and the lateral head is on the outside of the arm.