Lower Body Workout
Benefits of Lower Body Workouts
This workout is designed to increase strength in all the leg muscles. It will sculpt and define the shape of your legs, making them look longer and leaner, and more athletic.
The exercises are designed to work together to create balanced strength in the different muscles in the legs, to strengthen them and increase joint stability. If you've ever pulled a hamstring or had shin splints, it's probably down to muscular imbalance(with one set of leg muscles overpowering the other). These dynamic exercises train muscles together to improve balance and provide leg power, giving you the muscles you need for sculpted strong legs.
So, now lets start doing workouts. But, before we start up with our workout sessions, lets first do some warm up exercises which will keep our body free from getting any muscle stretches or muscle aches.
Warm-Up
Time: 5 minutes.
For warming up your lower body, you can skip or jog for 5 minutes.
The Circuit
This circuit takes 4 minutes to complete. Rest for 1 minute after each circuit. then repeat. Do it 4 times, then follow with the cool-down and stretch.
While performing these exercises, remember to pull in your core abdominal muscles to protect your back and maintain good form.
Here is the Step by Step Guide to Performing each workout for your Lower Body Workout:
Squats: To be performed for 1 minute. Click on the link to know about step by step guide to performing squats workout.
Alternate Lunges: To be performed for 30 seconds for each leg. Click on the link to know about step by step guide to performing alternate lunges workout.
Sumo Squats: To be performed for 1 minute. Click on the link to know about step by step guide to performing sumo squats workout.
Weighted Step Ups: To be performed for 30 seconds for each leg. Click on the link to know about step by step guide to performing weighted step ups workout.
Straight-Leg Dead Lift: To be performed for 1 minute. Click on the link to know about step by step guide to performing straight-leg dead lift workout.
After you complete up performing each workout above:
Cool-Down
Time: 5 minutes
Walk or jog for 5 minutes. You've been using your legs intensely so if you have space, do a variety of moves to make your legs work in different directions - do the steps footballers and rugby players do along the side of the pitch side steps, long extended steps, short springs, skips, then run kicking your heels up at the back and raising your knees at the front.
Stretch
Time: 5 minutes
Do the 5-minute full-body stretch.