Most important muscle in leg for running?

Question

My friend and I are habing a dispute in which muscle is the most inportant in your leg if you want to be a successful runner. Please share your opinion and tell where it is located on the leg. Please be specific.

Answer 1

quads

upper part above the knew to your butt

Answer 2

Depends on the distance.

Short sprints - probably the quad muscle on the top of your thigh and your calves (you would be pretty stupid if you didn't know where that was)

Longer sprints (like the 400) - whenever I get done running this my butt is always really sore so I'm gonna say your butt and your thighs.

I don't run distance so I wouldn't know about that stuff.

Hope you win this dispute!

Answer 3

The Nike Muscle!

Answer 4

Big legs start with big hips. Perhaps the athletes with the most powerful hips are hockey players. Hockey players constantly work the gluteus maximus (the densest muscle in the body), gluteus minimus, piriformis, abductors and adductors. These muscles stimulate motion and stabilize the hip.

Big legs continue with thick thighs. Running backs in American football have huge thighs. Running constitutes much movement in the knees. The four muscles of the quadriceps and the three muscles of the hamstrings extend the thigh, flex the knee, extend the knee, and, along with the gracilis, rotate the legs.

Big legs end with big calves. Sprinters need to have strong, fast calf muscles. The tibialis anterior, gastrocnemius and soleus are the major muscles of the calf. These muscles flex the foot upward and downward and aid forward propulsion needed for sprinting.