Best Leg Exercises

By Patrick Walter

Are you Tired of having skinny legs and inquiring what are the best leg exercises to build up their muscles and ensure results you can be proud of? If you are wondering if there is more healthful way of doing leg workouts without the habitual and tired leg extensions be certain that there are, you will read in this article how to execute the 2 best leg exercises at home. You will also learn the right ways to make each move more difficult to get those gorgeous legs even faster, so you need to keep increasing the strength of each exercise to keep ameliorating your shape.

2 Common and best leg exercises

The weighted back squat.

There is no doubt that the weighted squat is the best leg exercises and butt. Because it is a compound exercise and targets multiple exercise groups,  you will really get a big bang for your buck" out of this exercise.

How to practice

Take a wide position and stance your feet to a comfortable angle, about 45 degrees outwards. Spread your chest and flatten your back, inhale and while keeping your back straight, drive the hips back and bend at the knees, descend as far as comfortably possible but do not allow your legs to surpass a 90 degree angle, exhale and drive the body back upwards while concentrating on the muscular contraction within the glutes.

Repeat until the desired number of repetitions are completed.

 Lunges

 As with pretty much any exercise, there's all sorts of variations you can do, so lunges are a great practice for toning the entire lower body, you can perform lunges one leg at a time, with dumbbells, with a barbell, with a smith machine, you can even do them without any equipment at all.

Here's a a couple of ideas to help you get started with lunges:

-Leg Presses. If you are just beginning your intensity level training workouts, leg presses are a good place to start, it doesn't really matter what type of leg press you use, leg pressing will work the same muscle groups as the lunge, but it is better. You are not lifting your body weight. Be sure to challenge yourself. Start out slowly, but make the exercise difficult. Soon, you will be ready to move on to the lunge. For me, I did leg presses for three months before I attempted lunges.

-Stationary Lunges. Sometimes called the split squat, stationary lunges are a little easier than traditional lunges. The reason is that your feet are stationary. Place one foot forward and the other foot back in a wide stance. Simply lower your hips directly downward until you knee almost touches the floor, and drive back up. Keep your feet still. Finish your reps in this fashion, the reverse your feet and complete your reps on the other side. Please do not use any additional weight the first time you try the stationary lunge. See how you feel just using your body weight. If you think it's OK to add some weight, then hold dumbbells at your side.

-Reverse Lunges. Now we are moving our feet, which makes the reverse lunge a little more difficult. Standing straight with your feet together, take a long step backward. Hesitate slightly, then lower your hips directly downward until your knee almost touches the floor. Drive back up to your original position. Finish your reps for one side, then reverse. Again, be safe and start out with your body weight only. Also, I would recommend that you perform reverse lunges near a bench or chair in case you need help with your balance.

-Forward Lunge. This is the most difficult of the lunges. It is the same as the reverse lunge, except you are stepping forward instead of backward, these are some ways to incorporate the lunge into your beginners workout. The idea is to start out with safer exercises and work up to the challenging but effective forward lunge.

There aren't a lot of people who enjoy working legs, but don't neglect your legs. Your upper as well as your lower body should look good, not just your upper body. Take some time and do these "best leg exercises" (according to the experts) to have some nice looking quads and calves for your next outing.