The vastus medialis is also key for stabilising your knee joint so, as well as building your quads, the cyclist squat is also going to be a great exercise for improving your knee health too.

We explain that some pain will accompany this increasing joint load but keep pain <3/10 during and after exercise. This provides feedback on patient response to the level of load, may address some ...

It’s particularly useful for bringing out the teardrop shape of the vastus medialis, which plays a key role in knee stability. Check out the pin squat for another quad-focused exercise.

The step-up with deliberate co-activation resulted in greater activation of the hamstrings, greater co-activation indices for semimembranosus-vastus medialis and biceps femoris-vastus lateralis ...