Workout Plans: Legs

To kick your metabolism into a calorie burning, fat melting overdrive, you absolutely can NOT skip your leg workouts. Your quadriceps and hamstrings represent a huge proportion of your overall muscle mass. Training and repairing huge muscles means burning huge calories. Building more power throughout your lower body will help many other athletic movements both inside the gym and out. Not to mention, people with huge upper bodies and little twig legs don’t look proportional at all!

Complete this leg workout and you’ll be on your way to a lean and sculpted lower half. Tip: Try to go progressively heavier on your working sets

Stationary Bike – 5 minutes to get your muscles warmed

Barbell Squats

·         2 warm up sets of lighter weight, 10-15 reps

·         5 working sets, 8-12 reps

Dumbbell Walking Lunges

·         3 sets, 20 steps

Leg Extensions (machine)

·         3 working sets, 12-15 reps

superset with…

Lying Leg Curls

·         3 working sets, 12-15 reps

Leg Press

·         1 warm up set, 10-15 reps

·         4 working sets, 8-12 reps

o   Finish off each set with 10 calf extensions on the same machine

If you do this workout correctly, you may feel nauseous and struggle to walk out of the gym. That means you’re doing it right. Good on you. That’s when you know you left it all in there.