How to Increase Leg Muscles?

Are you looking to build some muscle mass on to your thin leg? or looking to add muscle mass to your fatty thigh. Then the solution for you is to increase your leg muscles. So how you can increase the leg muscles. So first we can learn about the muscles of leg and later learn how to build those muscles.

Muscles Of Leg

Quadriceps: Quadriceps also known as quads are large muscle group on the front thigh. It acts as the great extensor muscle of the knee.  Quads are the powerful and leanest muscles in the human body.

The muscles included is subdivided into 4 heads

1. Vastus Lateralis
2. Rectus Femoris
3. Vastus Medialis
4. Vastus Intermedius

I am not going to go deep into it to make it boring. So just take a look at the image below to get an idea.

Image Credit - Quadriceps Femoris Muscle, Wikipedia 

Hamstrings: Hamstring muscles consists of the three posterior thigh muscles located on the back of the upper thigh. They are semitendinosus, the semimembranosus, and the biceps femoris.

Image Credit - Hamstring, Wikipedia

Glutes Maximus Muscle: Gultes Maximus, also known as the glutes is the largest muscle in the human body. It is the uppermost of the three gluteal muscles that make up the human buttocks. It is considered as a part of the thigh muscle group.

Image Credit - Gluteus Maximus, Wikipedia 

I hope now you have got an idea on the muscles of leg and which all muscle groups you have to develop. So wait for the next part on building thigh muscles.