Welcome to the Get Fig guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield, and as a personal trainer, if there's one part of the human body

that I've found clients have thought to be too skinny, too thick, too soft, too weak,

or too baggy, it would be their thighs.

So whether you want to look better on the outside or inside of your upper legs, you want

a bit of extra strength in your quads and hamstrings, or just wish you had the confidence

to get better thighs than this episode is for you.

Let's start with looking at where the thighs actually are. In humans, the thigh is the

area from your pelvis, which is the hard bone surrounding your hips, down to your knee. Although

technically this means that the butt could be classified as part of your thighs, this episode will

primarily focus on the front, back, and sides of the upper legs. For some very butt-specific tips, I would

recommend that you read the article, how to tone your butt, which I'll put a link to in the show

notes. The thighs are comprised of several different groups of muscles. On the front are your quad

recepts, which are actually made up of four different muscles, the vastus lateralis, or outer quad muscle,

the vastus medialis, or inner quad muscles, the vastus lateralis or outer quad muscle, the vastus medialis, or

inner quad muscle, the vastus intermedius, the muscle between the lateralis and the medialis,

and the rectus femoris, which runs down the inside middle of the quads. Congratulations to any

Latin students who have just realized that those late-night Latin study sessions have finally paid off.

I'd give you even more thrills, but let's make the rest of the thigh muscle lesson a quick one.

The hamstrings are made of three primary muscles, which are located on the back of the thighs.

The adductors are comprised of two primary muscles and are located on the inner thigh,

and the abductors are comprised of two primary muscles and are located on the inner thigh, and the abductors are comprised of

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