Sentences with phrase «medial heads of»

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

The triceps is the main muscle in the posterior part of the upper arm, with its name derived from the three «heads» of the muscle: long, medial, and lateral.

«But at some evolutionary point and time in spiders the compound eye likely split into one pair of medial or central eyes in the front and a pair of lateral compound eyes found on the sides of the head.

Border cells are relatively sparse, making up less than 10 % of the local cell population, but can be found in all layers of the medial entorhinal cortex as well as the adjacent parasubiculum, often intermingled with head - direction cells and grid cells.

This is followed by contact with the lateral side of the foot and metatarsal heads, after which weight transfers to the ball of the foot with peak pressure under the medial metatarsal heads, and finally ending with toe - off pressure under the hallux.

The triceps have three distinct heads — the lateral, medial and long heads — and all three of them need to get developed in order to build explosive triceps strength.

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.

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.

For the triceps, which make up the bulk of the upper arms, this means carving out a detailed triceps horseshoe by effectively targeting all three heads — the long, lateral and medial — of the muscle in a balanced way.

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

Because of their critical function and extreme range of motion, strong delts are crucial for maximum performance and a complete, massive physique.Your delts are comprised of three heads — anterior, medial and lateral — with the anterior or front head being most important for adding thickness and width to your shoulders.

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.

This classic move is a staple of any solid shoulder routine and it will target all 3 heads of your deltoids, with emphasis on the anterior and medial portions, as long as you perform it with proper form and technique.

-- The two heads of The Gastrocnemius --(medial and lateral head).

The dip is a compound movement that uses your own bodyweight and hits every head of the triceps (long, medial and lateral), which is the best way to grow.

The side lateral raise is one of the best builders of the medial deltoid head, which is responsible for boosting the width of the side of the shoulders, so you really shouldn't be missing out on this move.

As a whole (all heads working together), the pectoralis major assists adduction (lowering upper arm from side raise position to the midline of the body), medial rotation (rotating upper arm forward or inward to the midline of the body) and horizontal flexion (moving the upper arm from a side raise position to the front of the body).

The deltoids consist of three heads (front, medial and rear head), and if you want to avoid their underdevelopment you need to pay ample attention to all three of them.

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

Attaining a balanced definition of the shoulders involves developing all three deltoid heads, especially the medial and posterior because the anterior gets a good amount of work during chest workouts.

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.

The shoulders are comprised of the relatively large deltoid muscles, which have three heads — anterior, medial and posterior — and the smaller rotator cuff muscle group, made up of the teres minor, infraspinatus, supraspinatus and subscapularis, which is responsible for supporting the ball and socket joint and assisting all overhead movements.

Even though movements such as overhead presses or upright rows do engage a great deal of the medial or lateral deltoid head, the side lateral raise will isolate and target this area even more perfectly.

EMG studies of the long head of the biceps brachii show that muscle fibers in the lateral portion of the muscle are recruited for elbow flexion, fibers in the medial aspect are recruited for supination, and centrally located fibers are recruited for non-linear combinations of flexion and supination.

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

It hits all three heads of the shoulder: the posterior (rear), medial (middle) and anterior (front) to give you that full, rounded look.

These muscles are placed on top of orbital septum and originate from a deep head linked to medial palpebral ligament.

The triceps has three separate sections known as the medial, lateral and long heads which fill the entire back side of the upper arm.

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 underneath these two and attaches at the elbow and towards the top of the humerus.

The medial and lateral heads of the gastrocnemius originate on the medial and lateral condyle of the femur, respectively.

The origins of the gastrocnemius (medial and lateral heads) are such that the two heads cross both the knee and ankle joint and consequently function as both an ankle extensor (plantar - flexion) and as an accessory knee flexor and stabiliser.

The hip muscles act on three mutually perpendicular main axes, all of which pass through the center of the femoral head, resulting in three degrees of freedom and three pair of principal directions: Flexion and extension around a transverse axis (left - right); lateral rotation and medial rotation around a longitudinal axis (along the thigh); and abduction and adduction around a sagittal axis (forward - backward); [29] and a combination of these movements (i.e. circumduction, a compound movement in which the leg describes the surface of an irregular cone).

It originates from the middle third of the medial border of the tibia, a fibrous arch between the tibia and fibula, and the posterior surface of the fibula head.

There are three main calf or «triceps surae» muscles: the medial and lateral heads of the gastrocnemius, and the soleus.

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

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

The clavicular head (upper pec) starts of the medial half of the clavicle, and the sternal head (middle and lower pec) starts on the anterior surface of the clavicle, costal cartilage of the first 6 ribs, and the aponeurosis of the external oblique muscle.

More precisely, it is situated medial to the lateral deltoid and lateral to the clavicular head of the pectoralis major.

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.

Origin: femur (medial and lateral head of the femoral condyles), capsule of the knee joint.

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 heads of the triceps muscle have origins on the medial and lateral posterior aspects of the humerus, and the lateral aspect of the scapula in the case of the long head.