Quad Sweep...

[WannaBPowerful]

Iv been tryin to work on this for a while now. I even posted a question askin about crab leg presses, becuase i read that was a good exercise for it, and iv never heard of it before. I know everyone is gonna tell me HACK SQUATS, but i feel those in my knees more than anything for some reason, and i have perfectly healthy knees. Maybe foot positioning on squats, leg presses, and front squats could do it? I dunno, please help.

 

[coolcolj]

this is something you have to be born with. All you can do is make your legs bigger. The quad on the side of the leg is just one muscle

I have plenty of quad sweep. always have, never did anything to get it, its genetics

 

[Exodus]

same with me..........but inversely, i have a rather smaller teardrop

go fig

X

 

[WannaBPowerful]

Never said i didnt have it, i want to improve it though. Are you telling me that if i increase the size of my quads overall, itl just come? Whenever i do leg exercises, i feel the contraction soo hard in my teardrop (my teardrop is pretty big) and not in my outer quad. When im standing up, i can flex my outer quad, or around my teardrop, so i tend to think you can stress a certain area more than the other with certain movements. After a leg day, i flex my outer quad and dont feel too sore or fatigued, but my around my teardrop when i flex it is shaking.

Right now my routines consist of

Workout A: 6 sets squats, 4 leg presses, 4 extensions, 6 stiff leg deadlifts

B: 4 sets front squats, 6 sets leg presses, 5 stiff leg deadlifts, 4 lying leg curls.

 

[coolcolj]

Big teardrop is good! It prevents knee problems!

Just add more leg size and the curved sweep will come. When My legs were smaller 24-25 inches there pretty blocky looking, but now that I have them over 26 inches, there is definitely a nice sweep happening. Just like biceps, the bigger you make it, the more height and curvature you get

 

[The Dude]

this is something you have to be born with. All you can do is make your legs bigger. The quad on the side of the leg is just one muscle

I have plenty of quad sweep. always have, never did anything to get it, its genetics

That is the most ridiculous use of the ole bad genetics excuse I've ever heard. Of course you can emphasize one quad muscle over the others. Not completely, but you can stress certain areas more. If you haven't noticed what happens to your quad muscles as you make significant changes in your stance, then you're doing something very wrong as you work your legs. Sheesh!

 

[coolcolj]

Well I've been using a wide stance squat ever since I started training, and can you explain to me why my teardrop and ouiter sweep both have grown equally large?

 

[WannaBPowerful]

ok, so what exercises and foot positions emphasize my quad sweep? Hack squats feel like they put too much stress on my knees, i feel it more there than anywhere.

 

[coolcolj]

just do full front squats and reverse lunges and be done

 

[vinylgroover]

If you start fucking around with screwey stances in the hope of stressing different muscle heads, you're asking for joint/tendon problems. Just push in a natural motion.

I'm with coolcolj, just concentrate on building mass and the sweep will come, if your genetics are pre-disposed to it.

You may want to throw in lunges. They are often viewed as a 'girls' exercise, but heavy lunges will improve your quad/ham/glute tie in, which enhances 'quad' sweep.

 

[The Shadow]

I have decent sweep and never had it tillI threw in Hacks lunges and feet together leg press

 

[Lord_Suston]

I have a decent sweep and it seems from all the year I trained doing squats with a relatively closed stance and hack squats. if they bother your knees try to lessen the weight and see if that help, if not then there is no need to get injured over a quadsweep....

 

[The Shadow]

see..hacks and a narrow foot placement on a pressing movement

 

[b fold the truth]

I do believe that you can do closer stance hacks or smith machines and stress the quads or the sweep more. Just don't forget to hit squats and also build the entire legs bigger too...

B True

 

[The Shadow]

true - squats bulit the bulk of my legs....

 

[bignate73]

sure, messing with the stance will bring different muscles into play. give them more involvement over others. close stances put a great deal of stress on the quads, but individual muscles within the complex?

all this anecdotal evidence about hacks etc etc or close stance this or that leads to one conclusion...YOUR QUADS GREW...period. not your lateralus, or your vmo or intermedius. all 3 grew, and depending on your movement rectus femorus as well. you took the emphasis off of the adductors, less ham and glute involvement and the stress went to the quads.