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Study leaves no doubt: For the biceps femoris, Romanian deadlifts rule. I am not quite sure if some of the guys at my gym even know what the hamstrings, are... I guess if I told them that they're also started biceps femoris, they were more likely to train it, instead of telling me that they play soccer and thus wouldn't have to train legs (I have honestly never heard something that stupid - I mean, it's like, I don't train to jump, because I am a high jumper ;-). Now, if we assume for the moment that my arguments are convincing enough to include a single hamstring exercise on their every-day-international-chest-and-biceps-day, what should it be, then? Chest Biceps Back Core Legs Triceps Shoulders Navigate the SuppVersity EMG Series - Click on the desired body part to see the optimal exercises. If you look back at the SuppVersity EMG Series , it would be the lying leg curl with tighs raised from the pad or hamstring exercises on th...

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...