This is Your Fortress: Legs
Seeing as how our legs make up the base of our body and are one the core units of our everyday movement, I wonder, why do people avoid leg day at the gym. No one ever misses chest or arm days so what is the difference? If I had to pick a reason I would say it’s due to the fact that people do not notice your legs, at least not like they notice a well developed set of arms or a thick chest. Well do yourself a favor, develop a part of your body that you actually use everyday and reap the benefits of a sturdy fortress.
Being able to see the three main heads of the quadricep (the rectus femoris is kind of overlapped by the vastus intermedius so you cannot really see it) is definitely an ego boost, and it should be. It means you care about your functional physique and are not in the gym just for show. Working your legs often targets your transverse abdominals, the ab muscles that few people work and are responsible for sucking your stomach in and creating those Spartan like channels between each of the rectus abdominus heads (what we see as a six pack). Exercises like squats demolish everything from your lower back, to your trunk (abdominal region) and then of course every muscle that frames our legs. People will say, oh but squats can hurt me… So can this keyboard I am writing with.
Proper form is a critical part of any lift.
