SuppVersity - Nutrition and Exercise Science for Everyone

Image 1: The muscles of the deltoids (red) on the front (left) and back (right) of the body and the rotator cuff (violett), the group of muscles and tendons that stabilize the shoulder. I don't know about you, but somehow I feel sad that this is already the last installment of the SuppVersity EMG Series . While it certainly was a hell lot of work to compile all the information, I am very pleased that (a few exceptions aside) you, the 'students' of the SuppVersity; appreciate and put into practice some of the information, I am putting out here. That being said, it is actually quite fitting that the series ends on a body part, even bodybuilders hardly ever stop fine-tuning: the complex musculature of the shoulder, the anterior, lateral and posterior part of the m. deltoideus, also known as the pars clavicularis , which attaches to the clavicle , the pars acromialis attaching to the acromion and the pars spinalis that is directly attached to the spina scapulae ,...

Image 1: The m. triceps brachii . As if you did not know where to find your "horseshoes" ;-) After last week's issue on leg training, devoting a whole issue of the SuppVersity EMG Series to a three headed muscle of your upper arm appears kind of unthrifty... well, maybe we should say "extravagant" and thus acknowledge that a well-built triceps unquestionably contributes to the muscular, athletic look most trainees are trying to achieve - especially if you are wearing one of those short-sleeved business shirts and complement them with appropriately muscled forearms ;-) As its name already implies the triceps consists of three heads, the long head , caput longum , which arises from the infraglenoid tubercle of the scapula and extends distally anterior to the teres minor and posterior to the teres major, and the two short heads , of which the caput mediale and the caput laterale which run along the rear side of the humerus. Being the antagonist of the...

Actually, it would make as much sense to split this part of the SuppVersity EMG Series in two, if not three individual analyses, as it would to split your leg workout over two if not three days. In practice, however, most trainees go through the grueling torture of the dreaded "leg day" , just once a week and thus I will mirror this practice by writing a similarly gruelingly long blogpost on the best exercises for the major Image 1: The major muscle groups of your legs. Quadriceps, adductors, abductors, gluteus, hamstrings, gastrocnemius & soleus the quadriceps (red) - powerful extensors of the knee joint;crucial in walking, running, jumping and squatting ; strongest and leanest muscle in the human body the gluteus (yellow) - three muscles that make up the buttocks: the gluteus maximus muscle, gluteus medius muscle and gluteus minimus muscle ; the hamstrings (blue) - comprises the semitendinosus, semimembranosus and the short and long head of the bicep...