Why Leg Days Are Ideal for Training Your Weakest Areas

Introduction

For many people leg day is the least enjoyable workout session of the week because it is generally very physically demanding when you are going through all of the various leg exercises (squats, leg presses, lunges, etc), and it can leave your legs feeling sore and tired for a few days afterwards.

However no matter how tempting it is to put it off until another day, it is very important because you don’t want to be that guy who has a large chest, bulging biceps and skinny, twig-like legs.

Similarly, from a female perspective, regular leg training can help to give you beautiful toned legs and a firm, round bottom, which is another reason why it shouldn’t be ignored.

Leg day can also serve another important function as well because it is a great opportunity to train some of the weaker parts of your body, or the areas of your body that don’t usually get much attention.

Leg Workout Add-Ons

At the end of a gruelling leg workout, the last thing that you will feel like doing is picking up a heavy barbell or a heavy set of dumbbells and pushing yourself to the limit once again.

Nevertheless, because you won’t have used your upper body very much when going through your leg workout, you will still have lots of energy in reserve to work certain areas of your body.

Examples

If you are devoting a day of the week to your chest, arms, back, shoulders and legs, for instance, then you may well find that you never get an opportunity to develop your core abdominal muscles.

Therefore this is one area that would be easy to train at the end of your leg workout because hanging leg raises, planks and a few sets of crunches on the abdominal crunch machine would be fairly easy to do at the end of your leg workout.

Similarly, it is common for people to neglect their triceps when developing a workout program because most of the upper body exercises tend to work the biceps a lot more than the triceps.

So there are certain tricep exercises that would help you to develop these muscles at the end of your leg routine, such as rope pull-downs and bodyweight dips, for example.

Finally, you may just find that no matter how balanced your workout program is, there are still certain areas that are under-developed, whether it’s your shoulders, back or biceps, for instance.

Therefore by doing a few sets of exercises that train these areas at the end of your leg workout, you can essentially train them twice a week in order to bring them into line with the rest of your body.

Final Thoughts

The point I want to get across is that if there are certain areas of your body that need a little extra training, then leg day provides you with the perfect opportunity to do just that.

If you feel that you just don’t have any more energy left after completing your leg workouts, then the alternative is to train two complimentary body parts on the same day.

For instance, if you don’t yet have any definition in your abs, then you could train your chest and abs on the same day. Similarly, you could also incorporate chest and arms, or chest and triceps into the same workout, or you could even train chest and shoulders on the same day.

However I have always preferred to work on problem areas at the end of my leg workouts because although I am completely exhausted, I will still have enough enough power in my upper body to do certain exercises and develop some of my neglected muscle groups.