Significance of the VMO.......

[coolcolj]

whys that?

From what I know the VMO - is highly activated from eccentric stress just short of lockout, and by unstable situations. So when these conditions are not present size and strength plummet.

Guys read this for some exercises that help recruit it

http://www.charlespoliquin.net/women/VB0203.pdf

also - good exercises that definitely hit it - Bulgarian split squats, peterson stepups (see above PDF), split squats, low pulley cable split squat (lead leg on raised block)

you can enhance VMO recruitement by putting the lead leg on something unstable like a wobble board or Sitfit type device.
Most of them are already pretty unstable as is

You need to add a single leg exercise for strength balance purposes, so you might as well kill two birds with one stone - I always do Bulgarian split squats after my squats, just 2 sets of 8-10 does the trick, not real heavy either.
And who doesn't want a big bulging teardrop?

 

[Zander1983]

How could I forget split squats You'll be limping for days after you do them for the first time.

 

[collegiateLifter]

From what I know the VMO - is highly activated from eccentric stress just short of lockout, and by unstable situations. So when these conditions are not present size and strength plummet.

so it would seem that when taking layoffs from lifting like i am right now, just jumping some, like in a basketball game, should be enough to maintain the vmo, no? recall that jumping involves a shallow dip and high peak amounts of eccentric stress upon landing.

 

[coolcolj]

so it would seem that when taking layoffs from lifting like i am right now, just jumping some, like in a basketball game, should be enough to maintain the vmo, no? recall that jumping involves a shallow dip and high peak amounts of eccentric stress upon landing.

Well when I BBall, yeah my VMO gets killed - so it should be OK.

 

[natedog]

Cycling really hits that muscle well for me.

 

[endpoint]

for jerkbox


http://www.exrx.net/Muscles/Quadriceps.html

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