Importance of Training Your Lower Body
Many people will focus on weight training their upper body for example their chest, biceps and abs.
These are the muscle that we show off the most and the most popular exercises are definitely bench press and bicep curls.
Many people will often ask you, how much do you bench? There are many reason why almost everyone enjoys building the upper body, for example we have a lot more control over the way to upper body flexes and we can feel the pump of training much more on the upper body than the lower.
If your upper body grows bigger your shirts will feel smaller and this feeling is positive.
However many people often neglect weight training of the lower body for the reasons that weight training the legs is harder and also many people often don't care about having bigger legs.
There are many reasons why you should incorporate lower body training into your regime as it has many benefits.
Doing heavy leg squats will actually have a positive impact on your overall muscle growth around your body, not just on your legs.
When you push your body to the limit in an exercise such as squats your body will release powerful hormones, which will benefit muscle growth all around your body.
It is also important to have a balanced physique because you will actually look smaller if you have a bigger upper torso than your lower torso in relation to each other.
Great exercises for the legs include barbell squats, lunges, leg presses and stiff legged deadlift.
Exercise your lower body at least once per week in addition to your chest and biceps exercises to get much better overall results.
An example regime could be Monday - chest and triceps Tuesday - back and biceps Thursday - legs, calves and abs Friday shoulders and traps.
These are the muscle that we show off the most and the most popular exercises are definitely bench press and bicep curls.
Many people will often ask you, how much do you bench? There are many reason why almost everyone enjoys building the upper body, for example we have a lot more control over the way to upper body flexes and we can feel the pump of training much more on the upper body than the lower.
If your upper body grows bigger your shirts will feel smaller and this feeling is positive.
However many people often neglect weight training of the lower body for the reasons that weight training the legs is harder and also many people often don't care about having bigger legs.
There are many reasons why you should incorporate lower body training into your regime as it has many benefits.
Doing heavy leg squats will actually have a positive impact on your overall muscle growth around your body, not just on your legs.
When you push your body to the limit in an exercise such as squats your body will release powerful hormones, which will benefit muscle growth all around your body.
It is also important to have a balanced physique because you will actually look smaller if you have a bigger upper torso than your lower torso in relation to each other.
Great exercises for the legs include barbell squats, lunges, leg presses and stiff legged deadlift.
Exercise your lower body at least once per week in addition to your chest and biceps exercises to get much better overall results.
An example regime could be Monday - chest and triceps Tuesday - back and biceps Thursday - legs, calves and abs Friday shoulders and traps.