Thread: 3 Main Leg Exercises that I should do?

DEADLIFTS .... if you arent already doing them.

Quads:
Back or front squats
Leg presses (high on the plate hits my hams too)
Lunges

Hams:
SLDL (knees bent)
Leg curls
I will sometimes do GMs in place of a truer ham movement

Calves:
Standing and seated calf raises, I dont do donkeys or anything else

Those are my favorites, I mix and match as I feel depending on the day. For the most part I dont like back squats at all, I do fronts nowdays.

For quad-centric movements, I would pretty much stick to squat variations.

For hamstring-centric movements, I like deadlift variations, including a good ol' standard deadlift. Good mornings also rape the entire posterior chain.

If you want 3 movements, this would be my leg workout:

Back Squats or Olympic Squats
Deadlifts or SLDLs
Unilateral Squats or Front Squats

It might be a good idea to throw in a set or two of hamstring curls or glute ham raises to get some knee flexion action as well, but it's not fully necessary.

Yes I am doing deadlifts. So dead lifts, squat variations, and goodmornings/raises.

Cool, pretty much stuff that I have done already!


J

With front squats, can you do about the same amount of weight that you can do with "regular squats"? or what? Just want to have a general idea when I go to load up.

Thanks for the help guys.

When you warm up you will make a better guess as to what you can do, but no, people dont front squat what they back squat unless they are built in some freaky manner.

# for total leg development....
1. Squat
2. SLDL
3. standing calf raise

this should make up 85% or more of anyones leg workout...

^^Score. because that is what I have been doing. Cool, gonna stick with it.

forget those extension, etc. machines.

J

I'd add weighted step ups on a bench to that.