It is quite common for many people in the gym to focus on weight training their upper body muscles such as biceps, triceps, shoulders, abs and neglect working out their lower body muscles. Almost everyone enjoys building the upper body as it is mistakenly thought that well built biceps, shoulders and chest are a symbol of an attractive, sexy and muscular physique. Moreover, people often neglect building their lower body muscles because they don’t care about having strong and bigger legs and think that training the legs is harder. Well, it is true that a muscular upper body plays a vital role in getting you a strong body appearance; you can’t get the full benefits of weight training exercises without developing your lower body muscles. If you want to develop an even physique with a lean attractive body and strong muscles, you have to choose a training regimen that targets all your muscle groups including legs, thighs and buttocks.
If you neglect your lower body muscles while training your upper body, you may end up with an unbalanced physique with your muscular biceps and broad shoulders attached to malnourished looking skinny and weak legs. It is important to remember that legs are the foundation of your body and they need to be lean and strong in order to support your upper body. If you don’t have a strong foundation, you will not be able to work out and train your upper body muscles as well. To your surprise, nearly 65% of the muscles are found in your lower body and it will not be wise on your part to neglect training them and just focus on working the remaining 35% of the muscles in your upper body.
The leg muscles are the largest muscle groups in your body and you need to ensure that you primarily focus on weight training them before working other small muscle groups. Furthermore, the calf muscles need to be especially trained if you want to strengthen your leg muscles. Exercise your lower body at least twice a week in addition to upper body muscles building exercises to get much better overall results. This will ensure that you have a well maintained and balanced physique with a muscular, strong body.
There are many benefits of incorporating lower body exercises in your regular workout sessions. First and foremost, exercises such as leg presses, lunges and squats have a positive impact on your overall muscle growth as these compound exercises focus on working multiple muscle groups in your body including both upper and lower body muscle groups. Moreover, recent studies have proven the fact that these wonderful exercises stimulate the release of growth hormone in your body which leads to muscle growth all around your body. Lower body workouts also strengthen your lower muscle groups and get you an ideal, impressive and magnificent physique.
In order to get a balanced physique with a huge upper body and strong lower body, it is important that you look for the services of a professional qualified fitness and gym trainer in your vicinity. He will not only be able to design the right combination of upper body and lower body exercises for you keeping in view your fitness level and body needs, but will also guide you through your training sessions which will help you to train you body muscles effectively.
Guy Long is a Fitness Trainer in Melbourne and runs Health clubs in St. Kilda where he specializes in resistance training, body transformation, weight control, fat loss and overall muscular strength for local residents.