NinjoZata t1_j9xtnxy wrote on February 25, 2023 at 9:49 AM

Reply to comment by Mattie725 in Website that allows you to visually select the muscle you'd like to target and suggests workouts based on your selection. by bethebumblebee

(Educated) Shot in the dark cause I'm not an exercise guy, but if you're referring to your vastas lateralis since it originates deep to the hamstrings on the femer and only crosses the knee, j don't believe it does anything except knee extention like the rest of the quads, so I'm not sure how you'd hit just it without everything else. I could be wrong tho. During massage I isolate it by flexing the hip to help lax rec fem. But I assume it's just as activated as vmo? I just know which side is which lol

Biking is really great for vl and vmo, so maybe there's something to that?

Mattie725 t1_j9yut4r wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:03 PM

Haha it was just a random muscle I thought of. Using only one head of a muscle is indeed basically impossible. Your nervous system will always activate a full muscle, but depending on certain angles you could get more of the load to certain parts :)