Life throws a lot of curveballs at us sometimes. It’s always when we’re making our best gains in bench press numbers that we’ll tweak our shoulder tendon during warm-ups and lose three months of progress while recovering. It’s always when our diet is going so well that our job will throw us a bevy of new duties which will disrupt our eating schedule. Finally, it’s always when we finally seem to find that perfect workout plan that our gym access disappears and we’re limited to a nice set of 40 pounds dumbbells in our garage, until the gym remodeling or our financial problems subside. It’s at these times that we need to make adjustments to our training protocols and find ways to continue making progress – or at the very least maintaining our recent gains – ...

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One unfortunate aspect of bodybuilding that has been manifested in lots of people is the tendency to focus all the effort on the upper body and then doing little or nothing under the belt. There are consequences for this type of training and these are quite comical. There is nothing very amusing if you will spend the whole year in the gym and then emerge only for people to start calling you weird names like ‘chicken legs’ simply because your upper body is so sculpted but it is being supported on feeble legs. You may have incredible proportions in your upper body but you will not get full marks if your legs are spindly in character. You simply have to apply effort in ensuring that you get those noticeable quads and calves. The bodybuilding effort in this case should be approached ...

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It was the great Tom Platz who is credited with pioneering the use of front squats on a mainstream basis in the 1970s and 80s. You may have heard of the guy. While his upper body was considered only slightly above average by professional bodybuilding standards, his legs were world-class. To this day, bodybuilders have failed to match the exact level of size, thickness, and muscularity that Platz achieved. Some have offered the same level of size he had. Some are equally or more ripped. And some have shape that is just as good. But Tom Platz had something that the rest of them did not. His legs were just superhuman. They were gigantic, flowed perfectly, and just looked like a perfectly developed set of legs. Twenty-five years later, people ...

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Human beings, being the resourceful devils that we are, always work to find ways to make things easier. We invent gadgets to cook, clean, and organize things faster. We use email to save us the time of actually going to meet people. We use a thousand shortcuts every day to save us time in a million ways. We’re masters at striving for efficiency. However, as a result, we often end up short-circuiting those gains which are derived from completing actual hard work. Standard squats can be highly beneficial for making gains – not only for the legs, but for overall muscular development. It also helps add to the quality of cardiovascular conditioning. However, standard squats are extremely tough to do. We may have the best of intentions, but when we get in the gym, ...

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Before we begin it is important to start with a brief introduction to the leg muscle anatomy. This is vital because without the details of the specific muscles you want to exercise on, you may easily get discouraged if you do not get the results you hoped for. This will help you training to target the appropriate muscle groups and hence lead to positive results. The success of any body builder is governed by how well he knows where the various muscles in his body are located. This is a requirement if you want to develop good muscle tone. We have various muscles in the legs. One of them is called the quadriceps also known as the quads in short. They are located in the front part of your leg. Also located in the leg are the hamstring muscles which are located ...

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The hamstrings, or the leg biceps, are the small muscle group located on the back of the thighs. Since these muscles are hidden from sight in most bodybuilding poses (at least the ones we see from the front), they are often overlooked in training. Admittedly, there are only a few exercises that directly hit them. Toss in the fact that they cannot grow very much (except in a few genetic freaks) and that they show minimal shape or definition until contest conditioning is achieved, and it becomes easy to see why they are among the least popular muscle groups to train! Beginner and intermediate bodybuilders can benefit from just 6-10 sets of leg curls (seated or lying) and the occasional stiff-legged deadlift. However, as one becomes a more ...

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