The largest muscle in the human body. The gluteus maximus and sartorius muscles are the largest and longest muscles in the human body.
Buttocks are a sign of a high position on the steps of the evolutionary ladder: of all today existing species Among primates, only humans are endowed with a rounded, invariably protruding butt. Although the butt was formed in ancient times ( gluteal muscles arose about 3-4 million years ago, when man rose from all fours and began to walk on two legs), however, it is one of the youngest parts of the body. Since then, humanity has not acquired anything else in its structure (except for brains).
The butt is “made” by muscles and the layers of fat located between them. Each buttock contains 12 muscles and 20 ligaments. This “envelopment” gives the butt a convex shape. In addition, the gluteal muscles that move the hip—gluteus maximus, gluteus medius, and gluteus minimus—are among the largest muscles in the human body. Thanks to their coordinated work, we can walk and, most importantly, maintain balance.
The size of the buttocks depends on the structure of the muscles determined by genes: some people get more so-called red fibers (like red meat in chicken), others get more white fibers (similar to white meat). White fibers are prone to obesity, which is why people who have a lot of them in their butts have a large and not so elastic butt. “Red-bottomed” people, on the contrary, are always lean. Unfortunately, with age, cells lose the ability to hold water molecules, as a result, the muscles dry out and the soft spot turns into an unappetizing “dried fruit”.
There has always been an increased interest in “beautiful-assed” creatures. Surveys show that for a man choosing a woman, what looks below her back is of no small importance. Obviously, elastic, developed buttocks create, firstly, aesthetic harmony, and, in addition, indicate health and, therefore, the high ability of such a woman to reproduce. Therefore, what is present in the folklore of many nations is “there is something to hold on to” and is nothing more than a high male assessment of female bodily virtues. One should think that these criteria have been preserved in the male subconscious since the times of the primitive communal system. Confirmation of this can be seen in archaeological finds: almost all images of women created by primitive artists and sculptors are distinguished by extremely curvaceous forms.
In 1804, naturalists Peron and Lesser arrived in South Africa to conduct research on the local Hottentot tribes in the Cape of Good Hope area. In their diaries, they described a feature that local women possessed - fantastic hypertrophy of the buttocks - up to two meters in girth. This anomaly is known today among specialists as steatopygia, or “Hottentot buttocks.” But... the more clearly this feature was expressed, the more popular such a woman was among the men there. In the forests of southwestern Africa, among the Bushmen tribes, women with giant buttocks have also been preserved.
However, beautiful buttocks not only men, but also women are interested. According to the same surveys, when choosing a sexual partner, a girl’s area of interest includes two “ specifications": strong buttocks and tall stature. It is believed (and there is a significant amount of truth in this) that a man with elastic buttocks is tireless in sex.
As you know, on Holy Evening in Rus' it was customary to guess about the betrothed. Fortune telling was different - with the help of a shoe, a mirror, a candle and... butt. How? And it's very simple. Unmarried ladies late in the evening on Holy Eve made their way to the bathhouse and took turns 
sticking their butts out the small window, they said: “Come, rich man, hit me on the butt with your furry paw!”
(a shaggy hand is a symbol of prosperity). Whether a random passer-by hit the woman’s strong buttocks or not, we don’t know, but after such a ritual, its participants actively discussed the force of the blow and based on it they made conclusions about the relationship with their future husband.
In some Russian villages, a girl getting ready to get married was checked for the “strength of her butt” in a very original way: she was placed on a stool Walnut, and if the girl, sitting on it, cracked the shell, then it was time. I wonder if modern girls could pass such an exam?
Many peoples have a number of signs and superstitions regarding the place where the back loses its decent name. For example, in ancient Egypt they strictly ensured that unmarried girls did not sit with their bare bottoms on untreated stones: it was believed that this could offend the bottom, and then the girl would not be able to get married.
Many modern actors still believe that if a text falls, you must sit on it. 
It is perhaps difficult to find a place on the human body more suitable for physical punishment than the buttocks. Spanking with a rod or a belt on a soft spot has long been the most common form of instilling rules of behavior in a civilized society. The reason for choosing the buttocks as a place that receives blows are the following factors: 1 - erroneous idea of low value and 
humiliation of the butt; 2 – a correct idea of the high sensitivity of the fifth point (many nerve receptors are located on the buttocks); 3 – a correct idea of the butt’s ability to withstand moderate physical impact without harmful consequences to health.
The first naked female buttocks flashed on the silver screen in 1915 in the film “Daughter of the Gods.” They belonged to the Australian 
film actress and athlete Annette Kellerman.
Actor Yevgeny Leonov was the first in the history of Soviet cinema to expose his buttocks in the film “Striped Flight” (1961).
The most expensive buttocks belong to the famous singer Kylie Minogue. Her petite butt is insured for no less than $4.7 billion. Jennifer Lopez is slightly behind her - only 1 billion euros. 
Currently, judging by the results of special competitions and surveys conducted among users of the worldwide Internet, the championship in the beauty of the buttocks is held by: Jennifer Lopez, Jessica Alba, Beyonce, Angelina Jolie, Brigitte Bardot - among women; Brad Pitt, Jason Lewis, David Beckham, Jude Law are among the men.
No one has ever doubted that a woman’s butt actively attracts attention, but until recently, for some reason, it never occurred to anyone to use it as advertising.
One of the cosmetic companies in Seoul decided to correct this unfortunate omission and, with the help of body art specialists, placed information about one of its weight loss products on the buttocks of pretty girls. An unconventional and bold way of promoting a product causes a crowd of so many passers-by that it is simply impossible to pass by half-naked beauties in jeans-like clothes painted on their bodies. Brought in as walking advertisements, female models do not mind being photographed. It is unknown whether the cosmetic company will have more buyers, but the fact that its name is already quite for a long time“heard” by thousands of Seoul residents, that’s for sure.
American artist from Richmond Steve Mermer calls himself a “berry artist” - he creates his paintings with a soft place! He puts paint on his butt and uses it as a stamp. His still lifes are especially vivid. On average, Steve's work sells for $700 per painting.
Famous actor David Duchovny also paints pictures using his buttocks, although he donates money from their sales to the animal welfare fund. The actor's wife, Tia Leoni, helps him apply paint to the working part, after which David sits down on the canvas, on which the drawing is printed. And so on several times. One of his paintings was sold at an auction in Los Angeles for three and a half thousand dollars.
11% of all photocopying machines in the US and Europe fail because people sit on them to see if they can make a photocopy of their butt.
The skin on the buttocks is extremely sensitive to temperature and can detect changes as small as 0.1 degrees.
The lines of skin folds and the shape of the buttocks, like fingerprints, are purely individual. Based on this, as some experts say, the structural features of the fifth point, as well as the lines on the hand, can tell a lot about the character of their owner.
Perhaps the most famous specialist in this field is Daniel Smith from Yorkshire. He calls his method pygomancy (from the Greek pygos - backside, mantle - fortune telling). According to Daniel Smith, if the left buttock is larger than the right, then all the difficulties in a person’s life are over. If the right one is larger, its owner still has to pass a severe life test. If the butt is fuller from below, it means that the person is doing great with his career and business. Fat accumulations gravitating towards the sides of the butt indicate an exemplary family man or an exemplary housewife, as well as people for whom life is unthinkable without love and carnal pleasures. If a lot of hair grows on a man’s butt, it means that this representative of the stronger sex has something to hide from his loved ones.
Originates from the posterior part of the ilium. Muscle to femur. It also originates from the lower part of the sacrum and is attached to the tendon of the erector muscle and the gluteal tendon.
The thickness of the muscle can reach 2-3 cm.
The fibers of the muscle are directed downward and form most of it. The lower part of the organ has superficial fibers. The muscle itself ends in a dense, sinewy plate, which passes into the wide hips.
Functions
Despite its size, the muscle does not play a special role when walking and begins to be actively used only when the load increases. For example, walking or running faster will fully engage this muscle to straighten the pelvis and keep the torso straight.
Being in a stationary state, the muscle tenses the thigh and thus ensures a fixed, straight position of the person’s torso - the organ acts on the pelvis, fixes it above the connection with the thigh (femoral head), which is especially necessary if a person stands on one leg.
The gluteus maximus muscle influences body position and performs a fixing function during vertical tilts. The muscle pulls the pelvis back, along with the hamstrings and tendons. Bottom part organ ensures hip flexion.
The gluteus maximus muscle is very often used by athletes and its development depends on sports results. Representatives especially actively use the gluteus maximus muscle game types sports: volleyball players, basketball players, football players and hockey players.
Exercises
To develop the gluteus maximus muscle, various lunges with weights are used. Yes, especially effective exercise for development are lunges with a barbell or dumbbells, as well as leg swings in the simulator (lower block) or back leg swings while lying down and with the lever of a special simulator. An equally effective exercise for developing the gluteal muscles is the lying bridge, which is performed by lifting the pelvis upward while lying down.
Humans also have the gluteus medius and gluteus minimus muscles. They are involved in hip abduction and pelvic abduction to the side if a person is in a fixed horizontal or vertical position. They help the gluteus maximus muscle perform its functions, and also differ in the depth of their location in the human body.
The question seems simple and specific, but it is not.
In other words, many muscles can be considered the strongest in our body.
Difficulties, strengths
The strength of each muscle depends on three factors that intersect with each other:
- IN physiological strength: muscle size, thickness, response to exercise, and so on.
- Neurological significance: How strong is the brain signal that leads to muscle contraction
- By mechanical strength: the angle at which force can be used, muscle mass, lever lengths and the characteristics of the joints.
This means that muscles never work alone, and you cannot compare the strength of muscles that work individually.
At the same time, the forces that muscles exert act on different functions and can be measured in different ways: there are muscles that can exercise absolute force, and others that have greater strength, dynamics (repetitive movements), for others - strength elastic (faster), and for others, resistance force (resist load).
Given these clarifications, there are a number of muscles that can be considered strong.
Chewing muscles
In simple and everyday terms, when we refer to the strongest muscle in the human body, we are referring to the one that can exert more force on an external object, such as lifting a weight.
In this sense, the most strong muscle- This is the masseter, the muscle of the jaw that we use for chewing. She can exert strength up to 90 kg.
The muscle itself is nothing special, but exerts a lot of force while having a very short lever arm.
Quadriceps femoris
On the other hand, we take into account the force exerted by the muscle itself, without reference to an external object. The strongest muscles are those with the largest cross-sectional area. This is due to the fact that the stress exhibited by an individual muscle fiber, does not change in different muscles.
The strongest muscle according to this measurement is the quadriceps femoris, located in front of the thigh, which supports our weight and works when we walk, run or sit.
Extrinsic muscles of the eye
The extrinsic muscles of the eye are the strongest in relation to the function they perform, which mainly involves moving the small and light eyeball.
These muscles are often said to be "100 times stronger than they should be" although there are eye movements (such as saccades) that require high speed (dynamic force) and these muscles also remain active at night during rapid eye movement sleep .
Heart
is the muscle that performs the most powerful physical work throughout a person’s life and does this continuously. However, the force exerted is only 1 to 5 watts (the quadriceps can produce up to 100 watts of force, but only for a few minutes).
Language
This is the most common myth that says that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body, but this is a wrong statement.
The tongue is not a muscle, but an organ consisting of eight different muscles.
The myth comes from the fact that essentially language always works. It not only helps in the process of chewing food, but also performs its function in speech, with movements and positions that help form different sounds, provides filters against bacteria, and also remains active at night.
December 31, 2013
Gluteus maximus muscle
Many people are very often interested in the details of the structure of their own body, which is why they sometimes ask the most ornate questions. One of them goes something like this: “What are the largest muscles in humans?”
Answering this question is not particularly difficult, since the largest muscle in terms of size and defined boundaries is the gluteus maximus muscle, located, accordingly, in the buttocks area. But what is known about this integral component muscular system? It is precisely this topic that is worth talking about in a little more detail.
The structure of the gluteal muscle
First of all, it is worth noting that the characteristic muscle has a large-fiber structure, while it overlaps the rest of the muscles of this group, dominating in size. In addition, it is exceptionally flat, and its thickness barely reaches three centimeters, but in some cases even less.
It originates directly from the posterior part of the outer surface of the ilium, and runs through almost the entire firm buttock performing a vital function.
So no one has even the slightest doubt that it is she who leads the large human muscles, being an indispensable component of the entire muscular system. You don’t need to be a great physician to correctly guess the answer to this question, which is global for some.
Mobility and purpose of muscles
Now it’s worth saying a few words about its mobility and its intended purpose. If this muscle predominates in a stationary state in the pelvic area, then it tends to tense the thigh and, thereby, ensures the standing position of each person.
If a characteristic element muscle mass damaged, then the injured party, alas, cannot stand straight as before. Occupying a stable position from below, it exerts direct pressure on the pelvic area, thereby supporting it and the torso above the femoral head.
Simply put, a person can easily stand on one leg without wobbling or falling. Accordingly, damage to the gluteus maximus muscle can disrupt the patient’s usual life and mobility.
But in order to bend over, the gluteus maximus muscle is helped by the following elements: the biceps femoris muscle, the semimembranosus muscle, the semitendinosus muscle and the adductor magnus muscle. So any violation of these components requires immediate consultation with a specialist and timely intensive care.
Large thigh muscle
So we can draw a completely logical conclusion that large muscle the hips are a kind of fixator that allows a person to stand straight, sit and even lie down, that is, it allows the leg to be stable and mobile at the same time.
That is why it is so important to regularly train such large muscles in order to preserve their original functions and intended purpose for as long as possible. In addition, such training is especially relevant after various injuries.
There are many other muscles in the body, each with its own unique purpose. There are not only the largest, but also the strongest muscles. So it is useful to know more about the characteristics of your body. In order to be able to recognize the pathology in a timely manner when certain diseases occur.
The biggest muscles are just as important as the strongest muscles. Moreover, it is worth clarifying that it is important to train all muscle groups regularly, even for the purpose of reliable prevention.
Many people have heard that the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body. However, in reality this statement is not true.
The tongue is not the strongest muscle because it is not a single muscle, but an entire structure consisting of eight separate fibers. As for its unique characteristics, they are determined by the nature of the interaction of the fibers, as well as the strength of their weave.
Features of human language
Due to its unique structure and developmental features, the tongue has increased flexibility and endurance. Only this organ of the human body can bend in any direction, wrap itself into a tube, and quickly change position.
We eat and talk with the help of our tongue, and it almost never gets tired. However, all this does not mean that this is the strongest muscle in the body.
According to experts who study this issue, a person simply does not fully use many of his muscles. But the tongue works with maximum load, which is why many people think that it is the strongest muscle in the body.
However, since the muscles that form it are not attached to the bone, they do not grow. It’s just that as a person grows older, the structure of these muscles becomes denser, and they are more tightly intertwined.
How to measure muscle strength
But if the tongue is not the strongest muscle in the human body, which one belongs to this high title? Scientists say that a clear answer depends on the chosen measurement method.
For example, if we use the brute force method, then special attention the gluteal muscles will deserve and quadriceps muscles located in the front of the thigh. They are the ones who work with maximum load in Everyday life person. Moreover, the bones to which these muscles are attached act as levers.
However, practice shows that very often, when talking about strength, we mean endurance. And here language really takes the lead. Although it is a mistake to consider it the strongest muscle in the body, it is a whole system. In addition, the human heart is an extremely resilient muscle. After all, it works without interruption throughout life.
Is it necessary to develop and strengthen the tongue if it is not the strongest human muscle? Modern scientists say that for some people it is very useful. This practice helps patients who have recently suffered a stroke, as well as those who are familiar with swallowing problems.
In addition, strengthening the language is necessary for people suffering from speech pathologies and those who want to improve their diction. Therefore, if you really want, you can make your tongue the strongest muscle.
To increase the efficiency of the tongue, it is recommended to train according to a special program. In addition, a very simple exercise will help you. You need to fill your mouth with small smooth pebbles and read aloud.
The pebbles will become a kind of “weight” for your tongue, and therefore the exercise will help strengthen it and improve diction. Moreover, it can be performed at any time and in any circumstances - it will only take a few minutes.
If you are still wondering why the tongue is the strongest muscle, remember that this is not the right question. Study your entire body and find out which is the strongest muscle in the human body specifically in your case.
