When you hop, run or jump, your legs behave like springs, absorbing and returning energy with each step. But what happens to ...

Human movements like hopping and running can be explained using a spring-mass model. In this model, the leg works like a ...

Researchers at the University of Tokyo reveal the way our legs adapt to fast movements. When people hop at high speeds, key ...

Leg muscles are one of the most burdened out of all the muscles in the human body, and it’s highly important to keep them strong and healthy. Therefore, one must do some work towards the ...

In our leg, if the muscle on the back of our thigh contracts ... This short film is from the BBC series, Biological processes of the human body. You could get a skeleton model and connect rubber ...

When we drive the leg forwards, we are engaging our quads and hamstrings to help bend the knee, as well as press off from the ground. “Your calf muscles also work by extending the ankles ...

Instead, they have to use muscle power to support their body ... in order to move their center of gravity over whichever leg is bearing their weight. Human bodies have a number of other ...