well, your biceps longus is the muscle on the top of your thigh. You engage this muscle when you lift it while in the sitting position. the , once the leg is crossed, it is gravity that keeps your leg in place. ( I think :) )
The sartorius
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In my style, Shorin-Ryu (and probably others), Kosa Dachi roughly translates to Cross-legged stance.
The sartorius muscle - the longest muscle in the human body - is a long thin muscle that runs down the length of the thigh in the anterior compartment. Its upper portion forms the lateral border of the femoral triangle.
Why do all muscle cross a joint? Define the attachment points of muscle to bone?
Cross-striations form cardiac muscle. The crossed formation makes the tissue and muscle stronger.
Cross-striations form cardiac muscle. The crossed formation makes the tissue and muscle stronger.
That would be the rectus femoris.
That would be the rectus femoris.
It suggests you are a student of yoga and/or meditation and have been focused on the crown chakra. In other words, sitting cross legged suggests meditation and spiritual discipline. Beginning to fly suggests attaining spiritual enlightenment.
Being cross eyed means having a condition known as strabismus, which is the in perfect alignment of the eyes. This could be the result of a weakened or over contracting muscle. It could also be neurological.
Whenever you want to do move your body more than once, you do that by contracting muscles. Bicycle riding, being a repetitive motion, create a lot of muscle contractions.
if the pain is on the outside (lateral) side of the knee, it might be your lateral collateral ligament. This happened to me as well, and it may be that you stretched it past its limitations or overuse injury while doing other physical activities and sitting cross legged just aggravated it even more.