Leg workout!

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Can anyone help with a good leg routine? I am fairly new to this, but I want to add muscle, as my legs need it bad. At the gym I go to they have a leg press, but I hear this isn't the best for you? Thanks in advance.
 
Seated and standing calf raises work different muscles, so if you need a direct calf exercise I would reccomend switching between the two, or doing both.
 
as far as the leg press, i use it everytime i work my lower body at the school weight room. Calf raises, leg press, and one leg press are very good exercises. I dont no about it not being the best for u, I do know its not a good idea to lock ure knees if ure doing a good amount of weight cuz this could blow out ure knees.

But besides that, running, squats, dead lift, calf raises on a step, and i forgot what it was called but u squat down to like a sitting position, where ure leg is bent at the knee at a 90* angle, put ure back against a wall, and hold it there for a while, do a few sets of those and after a while u can start holding a weight in ure arms, this is great for the quads.
 
leg press is really hard on my knees.

lunges...those are a good leg workout too. i forgot just how much they can thrash your legs...so I did em last night. wow.
 
o yes, lunges. forgot those, those are real nice, u can even hold a dumbbell in each hand to further the hard....ness?? haha
 
mreik said:
Seated and standing calf raises work different muscles, so if you need a direct calf exercise I would reccomend switching between the two, or doing both.
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correct. Seated works out the "soleus" muscle, the lower muscle beneathe the gastrocenius or watever the technological name for "calf" is. The standing works out calves directly. I recommend if you are a runner, you DEFINITELY workout the soleus, for in long distance running, you'll feel your calves burn out a lot faster if you have a weak soleus. The soleus is like the forearms for your arms. If you have weak forearms, you'll find it that you curl less weight than you could with strong forearms.

Furthermore, remember to workout the hip adductors and abductors. Small muscles make up the big ones, and this is how most atheletes injure themselves. They injure their small muscles and their big muscles such as their quads fail to work properly without the small muscles.

GOOD LUCK!!
 
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