Building Huge Thighs
To obtain bigger thighs, you would need to work all three of the main muscle groups that comprise the leg. The leg is made up of the quadriceps or thigh muscle tissue , the thigh bicep muscles on the back of the leg and the calve muscular tissues on the lower leg. An ideal leg exercise regime will hit all three.
Legs can account for up to two thirds of the body weight of a person. The bulk of the leg is sheer muscle, contrasting with the core torso which is stuffed with lighter organs and air.. The leg muscle groups are used to hard work as they carry around a significant weight all day so getting them growing can be hard!
There have been whole publications devoted to the topic of training legs. One book, Keys to the Inner Universe by Mr Universe Bill Pearl, has fifty pages dedicated to thighs only!
The Squat
The all round principal exercise for building leg muscles and for producing superior thighs is the squat. Considered one of the most tricky physical exercises, it's avoided by many beginner and part time weight lifters. Squats are often performed with barbells or with apparatus such as the Smith machine which can be safer if less effective.
Normally, squats are executed using a weight bearing barbell resting over the shoulders of the lifter. The lifter could also hold weight in front of them, although this gets impractical with heavier loads. Squats tend to be carried out flat-footed but several work outs need the lifter to lift their ankles from the ground through the lift. During a squat, the legs must never lock out as it will steal all the load of the work out from the legs, which defeats the purpose of the Squat and reduces exercise intensity!
To see how far you need to bend through a squat how low you go - you may put a bench under you: if you are making contact with the bench, you have gone low enough. You can even go so low that the butt makes contact with your heels. The lower you go, the more effective the squat. The space between your feet: how wide the space between them is, will decide whether you work inner, outer or upper thigh muscles.
To develop larger thighs, your exercise schedule ought to contain different types of squats. A good regime should include three sets of 10 reps.
Barbell Squat by means of an Olympic bar loaded with the specified weight plus a squat rack, squat down until your thighs are parallel with the floor. If it is possible to achieve more than 10 repetitions, increase the weight on the bar.
Barbell Squat Wide Stance lift up your heels and spread your legs wide. Squat using your knees pointing out to the side. While slightly cumbersome, this workout is an important inner thigh exercise.
Hack Squat as before, raise your heels. With the barbell held behind your posterior, squat until the weights on the bar almost make contact with the floor.
Leg Presses
Leg Press Machine using a similar spacing between your feet on this machine as in the barbell squats mentioned above will decide whether you work the inner, outer or upper thigh muscle tissue.
Decline Leg Press Machine as above, the spacing between your feet determines which muscle tissues are employed in this exercise. As a bonus, the gluteus maximus (buttocks) are also targeted by decline leg press should you squat deeply enough.
Leg Extension Machine
The leg extension machine will work the outer, inner and lower thighs.
Thigh Curls
If the sports hall doesn't have a dedicated thigh curl machine , a cable-and-pulley machine with ankle straps can be used to carry out curls that use the thigh bicep and hamstring muscle tissue.
Adductor and Abductor Machines
These regular apparatus, well-liked with female weightlifters, will expand the hip flexor and inner thighs respectively. The extent of expansion of these muscles contributes greatly to the overall look of your thighs. If these machines arent in your gymnasium, a cable-and-pulley machine can replace it.
Dumbbell Lunges
This exercise will build the gluteus in addition to the rear thigh muscle mass. It also helps develop overall flexibility, in particular in the hips.
Building larger thighs is tricky but any determined body building regime absolutely must include leg exercises.
Legs can account for up to two thirds of the body weight of a person. The bulk of the leg is sheer muscle, contrasting with the core torso which is stuffed with lighter organs and air.. The leg muscle groups are used to hard work as they carry around a significant weight all day so getting them growing can be hard!
There have been whole publications devoted to the topic of training legs. One book, Keys to the Inner Universe by Mr Universe Bill Pearl, has fifty pages dedicated to thighs only!
The Squat
The all round principal exercise for building leg muscles and for producing superior thighs is the squat. Considered one of the most tricky physical exercises, it's avoided by many beginner and part time weight lifters. Squats are often performed with barbells or with apparatus such as the Smith machine which can be safer if less effective.
Normally, squats are executed using a weight bearing barbell resting over the shoulders of the lifter. The lifter could also hold weight in front of them, although this gets impractical with heavier loads. Squats tend to be carried out flat-footed but several work outs need the lifter to lift their ankles from the ground through the lift. During a squat, the legs must never lock out as it will steal all the load of the work out from the legs, which defeats the purpose of the Squat and reduces exercise intensity!
To see how far you need to bend through a squat how low you go - you may put a bench under you: if you are making contact with the bench, you have gone low enough. You can even go so low that the butt makes contact with your heels. The lower you go, the more effective the squat. The space between your feet: how wide the space between them is, will decide whether you work inner, outer or upper thigh muscles.
To develop larger thighs, your exercise schedule ought to contain different types of squats. A good regime should include three sets of 10 reps.
Barbell Squat by means of an Olympic bar loaded with the specified weight plus a squat rack, squat down until your thighs are parallel with the floor. If it is possible to achieve more than 10 repetitions, increase the weight on the bar.
Barbell Squat Wide Stance lift up your heels and spread your legs wide. Squat using your knees pointing out to the side. While slightly cumbersome, this workout is an important inner thigh exercise.
Hack Squat as before, raise your heels. With the barbell held behind your posterior, squat until the weights on the bar almost make contact with the floor.
Leg Presses
Leg Press Machine using a similar spacing between your feet on this machine as in the barbell squats mentioned above will decide whether you work the inner, outer or upper thigh muscle tissue.
Decline Leg Press Machine as above, the spacing between your feet determines which muscle tissues are employed in this exercise. As a bonus, the gluteus maximus (buttocks) are also targeted by decline leg press should you squat deeply enough.
Leg Extension Machine
The leg extension machine will work the outer, inner and lower thighs.
Thigh Curls
If the sports hall doesn't have a dedicated thigh curl machine , a cable-and-pulley machine with ankle straps can be used to carry out curls that use the thigh bicep and hamstring muscle tissue.
Adductor and Abductor Machines
These regular apparatus, well-liked with female weightlifters, will expand the hip flexor and inner thighs respectively. The extent of expansion of these muscles contributes greatly to the overall look of your thighs. If these machines arent in your gymnasium, a cable-and-pulley machine can replace it.
Dumbbell Lunges
This exercise will build the gluteus in addition to the rear thigh muscle mass. It also helps develop overall flexibility, in particular in the hips.
Building larger thighs is tricky but any determined body building regime absolutely must include leg exercises.
