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Quadriceps exercises are popular among athletes, mountaineers, rowers etc, which primarily focus the movement of the knee joint. There are several methods for bringing these muscles into action. As all other exercises, you can do them with or without weight. Practically speaking, to tone up quadriceps muscles, there is no need to go for weight training. But if you are in sports, you’d better use.

While performing quadriceps exercise, always remember that the best result comes from full extension of your knee joint. Therefore, quadriceps exercises are carried out mainly with the following actions: squatting, jump squatting and lunge. If you are looking for some good cardio quadriceps exercises, then consider walking on a treadmill, swimming, playing hockey and squash, using the stepper and static bike are also highly advisable.

Be careful while doing leg extension exercise. You should place your back and buttock against a firm wall. Otherwise, lower group of vertebral column may get injured.

Quadriceps anatomy: quadriceps femoris is a bulky muscle group comprising four muscles, as the name suggests. The muscles that form quadriceps are Rectus femoris, Vastus medialis, Vastus lateralis and Vastus intermedius. Quadriceps muscles are the major extensor of our knee. They regulate most of the actions of our lower limbs like walking, jogging, climbing, running and squatting. The Rectus femoris component helps in flexion of the hip joint also. Blood supply of quadriceps comes from the femoral artery and they are innervated by femoral nerve.