Bunkka said:
It's for this reason that I always put all my body weight on my "other" leg, from the one I'm injecting in.
Does this make sense? And does this seem like it'd resolve the issue you're refering to?
Bunkka -
in theory, yes. In practice, not really. If you could balance so perfectly that your hanging leg was hanging motionless, and you weren't moving any other parts of your body which would make your autonomic nervous system have to balance you out by moving appendages so you didn't fall over, then your strategy would work to completely relax the glute.
However, in practice, a slight amount of tone is maintained in the glute while standing; kinda like revving the engine of a car to keep it ready to really rock and roll. If you're reclining, your glute can be totally relaxed.
My personal faves are the quad and the delt, simply because I find them both very easy to relax, and very accessible.
To relax my quad, I just slap my leg up between two chairs, or on my bed, or on the couch, or wherever and brace it with a pillow so it can be relaxed AND immobile. To relax my delt, I take my hand and put it on my hip (like some snotty chick will do if she thinks you have an attitude) and let my arm fall completely limp. Seriously, feel the difference in your delt between hanging-arm and hand-on-hip-arm, and you'll see what I mean about the hanging-leg glute...
Relaxed muscles have more give to them, and thus both hurt less and are less prone to damage or bruising when injecting compounds.
Have a good one!
-M
EDIT: man, I'm all about typos today... gotta start sleeping again.