Leg workout

Effective training for those who want to increase the size and strength of the muscles of the legs as the first rule requires brevity, in order to preserve the flawless execution at maximum intensity. Do one or more repetitions than necessary will cause growth, but will only make the recovery slower and often stop muscle development.

The legs are a group muscle complex, also as regards the setting of their workout. What are the most important basic principles to be followed with regard to the training of the legs?

In the East they say that man to be strong must look like the living thing stronger: the tree. The quality of the tree branches and leaves are very resilient to withstand the wind without breaking, a trunk very flexible, but also very strong roots firmly planted on the ground ... so they should be in our hands, our body and our legs. The leg workout is therefore the most important and predominant throughout the workout.

Leg workout means achieving good results in terms of aesthetics, both as a matter of form, both for metabolic issues: this can make the difference between a physical and a very discreet enviable. The basic principles on which to set the workout must establish an accurate diagnosis prior to postural level and a joint historical trauma of the whole structure from head to toe.

Free weights (squats, lunges ...) or machines (leg extension, leg curl, leg press ...) to train your legs more effectively?

Surely the most effective way to work your legs you can play by providing training consists of exercises with free taken, squats, lunges and deadlifts.

The reasons for this choice are answered in the benefits resulting from the anabolic stimulation of the global body: choose exercises pluriarticolari benefits the calorie consumption, which tend to increase the synergy synergy total muscle and then the harmony of movement, better relations between stability and mobility, then functionality of the body guaranteed.

How to set up an effective leg workout? What training methods are the most suitable for those who want to build mass?

Effective training for those who want to increase the size and strength of the muscles of the legs as the first rule requires brevity, in order to preserve the flawless execution at maximum intensity. Perform one or more repetitions of the need not to induce growth, but will only make slower recovery and often stop muscle development.

Important instead modular recovery time between a series and the other, so that the body has time to perform all of its chemical functions,

To stimulate the growth necessary to use the maximum intensity during training: maximum load volume and frequency not too frequent training sessions, but most of all ... reintegration correct what has been consumed during the training session.

Only after a complete recovery can be much desired muscle growth!

And for those who want to develop instead the power, perhaps to improve their performance in other sports?

For power is the maximum force that a muscle is able to exert in the shortest possible time (speed). Clarified that any exercise, taking into account these two parameters produces an increase in power.

An example would be using as a means of explosive strength, perform series of jumps at maximum intensity (the highest possible) and maximum frequency (one line), the athlete will certainly benefit the performance of the race at speed.

Question of the women. Many girls feel the need to join a gym to train the legs that may not be sufficiently stressed, or too 'big'. Can you give us some guidelines and practical information on key women? How should train the girls, who do not seek increases mass but rather the opposite?

Not sufficiently toned legs and too "big" is certainly one of the main reasons that lead a woman to join a gym. The first step to getting a good result is good hydration, good nutrition and a healthy lifestyle: in many cases when these elements are lacking a woman's body begins to "rebel" accumulating fat in unwanted areas.

The second step is to debunk the myth of "doing weights is boring and makes the muscles swell" ...

On the contrary, well-planned training with weights is what can make it more toned legs and give the desired shape to your leg making harmonious physique!