I've been working for about a month now to increase the strength in my legs. They're unreasonably weak, and I've been avoiding doing any elaborate lifting routines with my arms so I could wait for my legs to catch up. Just this past week, I changed the structure of my leg routine to more effectively build strength and mass in my legs. Whereas previously I had been doing sets of 8-10 squats, deadlifts, knee extensions and hamstring curls, I'm now going to be doing sets of 4-6 on the squats, and 6-8 on the deadlifts. I've never tried doing a routine with fewer reps and higher weight, so I'm interested to see if I make better progress like this.
I'm wondering though: Are there some special lifts or techniques I can use to specifically bulk up around my knees? Right now, my legs are pretty scrawny compared to my upper body. Though my upper quadriceps and my butt are about the right size in relation to the rest of my body, everything from my lower quadriceps down is extremely thin (and one of the reasons I haven't been working on my upper body is because I'm already top-heavy, and wanted to gain some mass in my lower body before I started becoming even more top-heavy).
Is there a special way to do squats or leg extensions to target the lower quads? Is there something else I should be doing?
I'm wondering though: Are there some special lifts or techniques I can use to specifically bulk up around my knees? Right now, my legs are pretty scrawny compared to my upper body. Though my upper quadriceps and my butt are about the right size in relation to the rest of my body, everything from my lower quadriceps down is extremely thin (and one of the reasons I haven't been working on my upper body is because I'm already top-heavy, and wanted to gain some mass in my lower body before I started becoming even more top-heavy).
Is there a special way to do squats or leg extensions to target the lower quads? Is there something else I should be doing?