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Some muscles in your leg are hamstrings, quads, and gastrocnemius*.

*The largest muscle in your calf muscle. It helps you extend you foot, raise your heel, and assists you in bending your knee.

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There are lots of leg muscles here are two of the most commonly known, calf and thigh, and here are just a few of the others, biceps femoris, gracillis, vastus medialis, gluteus maximus, there are many more.

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Leg muscles, like all skeletal muscles, consist of striated muscle tissue.

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calfs, the medical name I cannot remeber

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Thigh

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shin

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