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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Body Building Workouts, Exercising Your Legs

By Ricardo d Argence

Whether you are a professional bodybuilder, contact sports player or just someone getting your body in shape, it is imperative that you don?t neglect your legs for many reasons. The legs are often over looked when working out, as people tend to work towards the bigger chest and arms. There are important reasons to work your legs just as much as the rest of your body.

Why do legs play such an important role in one's daily workout? If you are interested in reading more about exercises, you are going to learn that muscles burn up the fat content during exercising. When you do your daily overall workout, you are going to gain muscle weight. The majority of your muscle mass is concentrated in your legs. Building up the muscles of the legs is going to help your body to work even harder.

The amount of mass in your legs allows the release of anabolic hormones. Your legs muscles will provide more of this growth hormone than the smaller muscle areas of your body. The amount of muscle in your leg outweighs your arms easily, so this just makes sense. The reason you want to release these hormones is to stimulate muscle growth.

Just imagine being extremely muscular or shapely at the top with spindly legs at the bottom. For aesthetic reasons, it is necessary that you balance out your overall shape with regular leg workouts.

Leg workout routines are best done by pushing the leg muscles to optimal fatigue levels. Every set needs 8-12 reps, and every exercise needs between 2 to 4 sets. Every single major leg muscle needs anywhere between 2 to five exercises for the development. But it is all going to depend upon your experience in working out, and the level of your tolerance.

Remember that you need to rest between exercises. One minute rest will allow your muscles to recover, but not so much that those anabolic hormones stop releasing themselves, because the muscles are relaxed. Then go in for lifting those weights again.

Once you have decided upon the look you want for your legs- lean mean look or muscled look- select the proper and best exercises, which can help you achieve your goal.

It is necessary that you warm up before going in for leg workouts. This can be through cardio exercises or running. This makes sure that you do not suffer from muscular injury.

You can also do exercises like squats, power cleans, calf rises hamstring curls , and Romanian deadlifts. These can be done in standing and seated positions. Every set, and rep needs to be tailor-made to your exercising level.

It is necessary to take the advice of a trained trainer before you go in for a strenuous workout routine. With proper workouts, you would not mind showing off your legs in shorts.

You will not only feel great, but your whole overall performance in sports, workouts, and general activities will be enhanced. - 17274

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