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Building Your Leg Muscles is a Simple Endeavor

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Having great strength in your legs will help you in everything you do. It is necessary in all sports to have good strength in your legs as well as any activity you wish. This article will give you sound advice in how to strengthen your legs and gives you a list of different exercises that will help your leg muscles grow.


Building your legs is all about the techniques and different types of exercises you use. The leg muscles are some of the bigger muscles in your body. So you need to lift a lot of weight for them to get bigger. To build muscles in your legs, you need to work out both your thighs and calves. All the different exercises and techniques can be done by both men and women. Some of the best exercises to use to get great results are:

  • Squats
  • Leg Press
  • Calf Raises
  • Leg Curls
  • Barbell Lunges
  • Dumbbell Lunges

All these exercises will increase the mass in your legs. Make sure you get plenty of rest between your workouts, so your leg muscles have time to recover and grow. And, be sure you always keep good form when performing each exercise.

As a beginner, slowly work into your routine. Keep a notebook so you can keep record of your process and increase the weight as you grow. This will allow you to continuously push your muscles to the point of failure and lessen the chance of injury. If you go all out in the beginning, your legs will be sore and you will have a hard time walking the next day not to mention the possibility of injury.

After you have grown into your normal routine, you’ll want to change things up and use different techniques to further confuse the muscles. There are many different types of techniques for muscle building. Some of these techniques are: supersets, descending sets, muscle confusion, and tri-sets. All these techniques are great for the growth of your leg muscles. Try each one and see which works best for you.

If you don’t have much time to do exercises for your legs and you want one leg exercise that will work better then the rest, you should do squats. Squats work the whole leg and is the king of all of the leg exercises. You must make sure you have good form when performing squats because you will be able to load a lot of weight on the bar. Remember, Bad Form can Result in Injury.

Henry Chervenka



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  1. ricky sexton  •  May 26, 2010 @

    Yeah just wanted to know what good leg exercises there are.my legs are pretty strong but they are not muscler looking i want the bodybuilder look any tips?

  2. Henry Webmaster  •  May 26, 2010 @

    Hi Ricky

    The number one exercise that will get muscle mass on your legs is the squat. This exercise will build mass in your thighs and will also target your calves and lower back. It also gets the heart going.

    A great technique for this exercise is the Drop Set or the Descending Set.

    To perform this technique, start out with half your max and do 10 reps for a warm up.

    Then do 95 percent of your max and do about 3 to 5 reps or almost to failure.

    Then strip off 10 to 20 pounds and do another set without any rest. Continue this until you have an empty bar. At this point, that empty bar should feel just as heavy as your max.

    Another great exercise is Dumbbell Lunges. You can also do a Drop Set with this exercise.

    To target the Calves only, the best exercise is the Calf Raise or Toe Raise. You can use a barbell or dumbbells but the important thing is to remember to use the full range of motion in your calf. Which means you should go all the way down and all the way up with your toes when doing this exercise.

    What I like to do is combine my Squats and Calf Raises together. I start out with a squat and when I lift up to finish my squat I incorporate a calf raise at the end of every rep.

    Building Muscle Mass In Your Calves is another article I wrote which may be helpful.

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  4. Henry C... Webmaster  •  May 31, 2010 @

    Hi Gayle,

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    Thanks

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