There are a few immutable rules that govern the workout world: Monday is International Chest Day, don’t ever curl in the squat rack, and you should never. Skip. Leg Day.
Okay, not everyone at the gym follows these commandments—and that’s fine. They shouldn’t! Maintaining a healthy, productive strength training routine takes more than just pledging a meathead’s devotion to unwritten decrees from some Schwarzeneggian deity.
But that last rule is one that you should actually follow, at least in spirit.
Unlike the bro reasoning of the first two guidelines, your lower body should never be ignored when it comes to your exercise routine. Give those glutes, quads, hamstrings, calves, and other leg muscles as much love as you can handle.
After all, your whole body will benefit from training legs. Since you’ll often be pushing some of the biggest muscle groups in your body with multi-joint movements, you’ll be getting your core involved, too—and your upper body often has to actually secure the load.
Moving big weights and putting a major strain on your body takes gets the metabolism going, too, so you’ll be set up to torch calories and burn through fat.
But you don’t need to stay restricted to the squat rack on leg day, or even too big barbell movements, for that matter. While those types of exercises are absolutely effective, there’s more to lower body training than just hitting the heavyweights.
For balanced programming, you should be mixing up implements, switching up your planes of motion, and yes, even sprinkling in some isolation exercises from time to time. Really, your leg training is only as limited as your imagination.
Here are some of our favorite leg exercises you can use to build a stronger, healthier lower body.
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