4 good reasons to strengthen your legs

Have you heard of "Leg day"? In bodybuilding, it's leg day, a session that many people avoid in their bodybuilding program. But where does this aversion to strengthening leg muscles come from? Why is it recommended to work the legs? Here are 4 good reasons to do it!

Why don't people like to work on their thighs?

There is no love affair between gym-goers or casual exercisers and leg exercises. This could be due to several concurrent reasons:

• The difficulty Strengthening your lower body: this is the part that is most subject to genetics. Strengthening your lower muscles takes a considerable amount of time, especially the calves which are difficult to develop depending on a person's genetics. Without the right patience, gaining mass on the thighs becomes an ordeal. Added to this are the complications of training. It is well known that we do not like to feel pain. Unfortunately, sport requires you to go beyond your limits and an incentive and all leg exercises are known to be strenuous and make you feel the burn. And since it's our lower muscles that carry our weight, it's all the more reason to do without.
• The pain The day after Leg Day, the muscular demands of the previous day lead to particularly virulent aches and pains, especially the first few times, until you feel constant pain with each step. Enough to make us promise never to do it again!
• Passive denial Legs are often mistakenly thought not to need maintenance. Either because we are convinced that genetics is the only master of our body, or that the aesthetics of the legs are not important, or that it is enough to walk ten minutes a day to build up the inner thighs. In any case, this is a lack of knowledge on the subject.

Why is it important to build up your legs?

Strengthening the leg muscles goes far beyond the usual aesthetic considerations conveyed by gyms. If it is true that the balance between the legs, the calves, and the upper body, is important not to look like a chicken when you lift weights, it is necessary to think of the paramount aspect of the sport which is the maintenance of the body in its beneficial dimension, i.e. physiological. In addition, doing a leg workout produces more testosterone which helps to build muscle throughout the body.

Here are 4 reasons why you should take charge of the muscular development of your lower limbs in their entirety!

Tone up your whole body

Homo sapien straightened himself out thanks to his powerful legs, but also thanks to his back and sheathing. Many exercises in the weight room or outdoors, involving the leg muscles, adductors, calves, thighs or buttocks, enable you to gain volume on all the muscles of the body in a process of efficient harmonization.

In this way, your back and abdominal muscles are also put to work, strengthening your posture. Exercises such as lunge variations, the "chair", and classic squats or their Bulgarian version, for example, can be included in your strength training session.

Balancing your body balance

We often hear about chronic back and knee problems. All these complications often stem from poor leg movements, but also from a lack of muscle development and activity in these lower muscles, especially around the knee joint. Harmonizing the body requires intense, coordinated movement.

By strengthening your legs and buttocks, you'll learn to keep your back straight for optimum efficiency. By putting the essential elements of your movement to the test with a respect for your constitution, some uncomfortable aches and pains will disappear on their own.

Activate your metabolism

Because of the proven intensity allocated to their development, the legs remain the champions of greed in terms of caloric consumption, but also in muscle development. This is the muscle group the most voluminous: the quadriceps, hamstrings, adductors and gluteals. Maintaining them requires a rich dietary intake.

As a result, their training engages in exceptional and welcome fat burning. In other words, we burn more calories by training our legs. Coupled with a cardiovascular dimension such as the skipping ropeThis is the muscle area that is most conducive to losing weight, slimming thighs, building muscle, increasing testosterone and growth hormone, and giving the whole body a metabolic boost.

Muscle mass quickly becomes an attainable target, particularly in deadlifting where muscle fibres are put to the test.

Improve performance

As with any growing muscle, building up your thighs is the key to drastically improving your sporting performance. After an essential warm-up and stretching, anything is possible.

Previously fragile, your thighs can now withstand shocks, intense periods and explosive split runs. They carry you higher, further and longer. In everyday life, prolonged standing or a long walk will be synonymous with a healthy walk.

Accumulated fatigue will be less of a problem at the end of the day, and the energy you've saved will be put to good use, leaving your body feeling sun-kissed. Your muscular legs will bring you daily dynamism - after all, it's your legs that carry you!

Developing your lower muscles is inherent to your health. No more skipping Leg Day! Let's go! Everyone get dressed for your favorite muscle building!

Whether you want to build up your thighs, buttocks or any other part of your body, call on a personal trainer. It will allow you to reach your goals quickly, avoiding any risk of injury. 

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