Sentences with phrase «stimulates muscles in the legs»

This device stimulates muscles in the legs, abs and back.

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For babies, moving the legs in a bicycle movement can help stimulate the contractions of the intestinal muscles.

Hirotaka Sato and his colleagues at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore inserted electrodes into flower beetles (Mecynorrhina torquata) to stimulate specific leg muscle groups.

Other research involves directly zapping the spinal cord (SN: 6/30/12, p. 5) or stimulating nerves that control muscles in the arms and legs.

This tap will pull on your thigh muscle, elongating stretch receptors embedded there, which in turn will excite a motor neuron in your spinal cord that will stimulate your thigh muscle to quickly contract, extending your leg below the knee in the famous knee - jerk reflex.

Since squats primarily target the legs which are a large muscle group, they create an anabolic environment by triggering the release of testosterone and human growth hormone, which stimulates muscle growth in the entire body.

There's another fact that the majority of lifters are unaware of, which is that training your legs increases growth hormone production which in turn stimulated the growth of muscles all over your body.

This is especially good news for those of us with dreams of bigger bis and tris, because even during leg day, these muscles are getting stimulated but not annihilated, which leads to much larger gains in smaller muscle groups.

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