Which muscles does jogging exercise?

Many people have the habit of exercising in the morning, and jogging is the method adopted by most people. Jogging has great benefits for the human body. The biggest benefit to the body is that it exercises the lung function, and it can also exercise various joints of the body. Jogging every day can also exercise the muscles to a certain extent. Let's take a look at which muscles jogging can exercise.

In fact, slow walking exercises almost all muscles in the body, but the most important ones are the leg muscles, mainly the thighs and calves.

Thigh muscles: divided into anterior lateral group, posterior group and medial group. The quadriceps femoris is one of the anterolateral muscles, which includes the rectus, vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, and vastus medialis. The anterolateral group also includes the sartorius muscle and the tensor fasciae latae, which are among the longest muscles in the human body; the posterior group includes the biceps femoris, semitendinosus, and semimembranosus; and the medial group includes the adductor magnus, pectineus, adductor brevis, adductor longus, and gracilis.

Calf muscles: divided into anterior group, posterior group and lateral group; the anterior group includes tibialis anterior, extensor digitorum longus, and extensor quadrilaterals; the lateral group is peroneus longus and peroneus brevis; the posterior group is divided into two layers, superficial and deep; the superficial layer includes triceps surae and soleus; the deep layer has 4 muscles: iliac crestis, flexor digitorum longus, flexor hallucis longus, and tibialis posterior.

Above we have learned in detail about the muscles that jogging can exercise. Persisting in jogging really has a good regulating effect on a person's thigh and calf muscles. In addition, if you jog every day in winter and spring, it can also improve a person's physical fitness and cultivation, enhance one's immunity, and reduce the chance of various diseases.