Height, limb length, muscle shape and
muscle insertion points all play a huge role in determining exactly how your newly built muscle mass will actually look.
Not exact matches
Besides enormous
muscle size, body building fans are now treated to the sight of veins running down the sides of a builder's arms, the distinct outlines of the deltoid
muscles on his shoulders and almost the exact
point of
insertion for each head of the biceps.
First of all, calves can often be a weak
point as a result of genetics, more specifically your genetically determined calf
muscle insertion.
The majority of back
muscles share a same
insertion point in the shoulder girdle.
We can't make our bodies carbon copies of our physical role models because
muscle shape, length, and
insertion points vary from person to person, but we can all build bodies that look awesome.
They (the doc and pt) said that my
muscles on that leg were probably too weak or too tight and it was causing irritation at the
insertion point of the IT band at my knee.
These bi-articular
muscles cross the hip, being attached to the ischiac tuberosity of the pelvis (Batterman et al. 2011), and also cross the knee, being attached to the tibia and fibula, although other
insertion points have also been reported (Tubbs et al. 2006).
Instead of placing pressure on the origin and
insertion points of the
muscle, which leads to increase sarcomeres in series, SMR may enhance the thixotropic nature of the fascia enveloping the
muscle (see above for more details).
Finally, surgical procedures to alter
muscle origin or
insertion points has been observed to produce increases in NFL in humans (Boakes et al. 2007).