25 Home Exercises For Legs

Home exercises for legs are easier to do then you realize.

You may think to yourself that you need to use the TRX or kettlebells to get great shaped legs but that isn’t true.

The only thing you will need is just your own body weight and perhaps some old tea towels that you may have lying around the house.

You will be able to work your quads, calfs, hamstrings, glutes and inner thighs with these 25 home exercises for legs.

By working your leg muscles, you will be able to change the shape of your entire body. This is because your leg muscles are the biggest in your body and burn the most calories.

As I mentioned before these exercises will give your legs great shape, but they will also give your legs great strength.

Lets not foget that you need strong legs for every day life so that you can climb stairs, walk around pick things up of the floor.

The leg exercises I will be showing you will not be complicated and you wont require a gym membership if you don’t want one.

Another good thing about using body weight exercises is that it allows you to learn correct form before you add weight to the exercise.

For example, an exercise like squats require you to use a large portion of your body. When you start to add weight to the exercise you burn even more calories.

However, once you add weight to the exercise it becomes more of an advanced exercise, and can be dangerous if done wrong.

You will be able to learn the correct technique for this exercise so that you can progress it some stage.

Don’t Waste Time with These Ab Exercises

Ab exercises are great. If your body fat is already low then ab exercises can give that finishing touch to your six pack and make you look fantastic.

There are a plethora of different exercises available to work your lower abdominals, obliques and upper abdominals. However, which ones are the best?

In fact, which ones are safe for you to do? There can be situations when a abdominal exercise can be counterproductive.

For example, if you have lower back pain there are definitely some exercises that you try to stay away from, because they can make lower back worse.

There are also some abdominal exercises that can be bad for posture…..

Going back to what I said at the start of the article, if your body fat is low ab exercises can make a difference…….

However, before I reveal the worst 5 abdominal exercises and why they are bad, lets discuss some facts about abdominal exercises.

Body Transformations For Men Over 35: Why Men over 35 Need To Try Harder.

I once trainer a guy in his late 40’s.

He was working 14-16-hour days every day.

As a result, he became unhealthy, he had bad skin, he had to drink several cups of coffee each day just to keep going.

By his own admission, he was overweight with a big gut and looked at least 10 years older.

When the weekends came he was down the pub getting drunk, to escape his reality and let loose.

He and his wife had 3 kids. They were 18, 19 and 21 respectively.

He had been married to his wife for 22 years, but they had slowly been growing apart year by year.

Improve Running Speed & Prevent Injuries

Good running technique

In the green diagram the body’s center of gravity is able to easily pass over the striking leg and because there is no breaking force you maintain the momentum gained from the back swing causing continuous forward movement producing a more efficient stride.

Running is a combination of bio mechanics (movement) and physiology (fitness) The bio-mechanics side looks at footwear & ground reaction force. The physiology side looks at how you can improve your heart and lungs ability to provide oxygen to the working muscles. In order to improve as a runner, you must look at both bio mechanics and physiology.