Multi-joint exercises are the best leg exercises for developing
overall leg strength.
Getting stronger at high bar back squats can increase
overall leg strength and size, which can lead to overall performance enhancements in the low bar back squat (assuming the athlete still trains the low bar back squat).
Not exact matches
These help build
strength in your
legs and contribute to
overall power when running.
Lunges and other single -
leg variations are great for improving size,
strength and
overall athletic performance.
So, if you're a guy who wants to pack on significant muscle mass, or a woman who wants to improve the appearance of her butt,
legs and abs, or you're an athlete who wants to improve
overall strength, squats are your best friend.
In fact, working your
legs is the quickest way to gain
OVERALL body
strength.
If you are looking to put on size and
strength throughout your
legs and whole body the best
overall mass builder is conventional deadlifts.
Beyond the
legs, you'll also be hitting your lats and building
overall strength and stability.
The
legs consist of the largest, most powerful muscles in the body and you can only develop
overall bodyweight
strength if you have the strong foundation that
leg exercises provide.
Training on one
leg can build tremendous
leg strength, while reducing the
overall compression load placed on your spine.
It is an excellent way to thicken the middle muscle fibers in this area and to gain
overall strength, as it also gives the torso and
legs an isometric workout.
Put differently: Push / pull /
legs routines such as this one allow you to utilize the big compound exercises during each workout session (good for
overall strength); but it also gives you the ability to «specialize» to a certain extent due to the nature of the split (good for muscle building — you can dedicate full sessions to upper body pushing muscles, upper body pulling muscles as well as
legs).
And despite only completing half the
strength training sessions, the whole body group had better increases in muscle mass for the trunk (3.4 vs. 2.7 %) and
legs (4.9 % vs. 1.7 %), and total muscle mass
overall (4.1 vs. 2.6 %).
I'm not sure if you know have heard of KX, but that's what I had been doing, all reformer based, which I really like and had noticed my
strength improve but also can feel really big in my
legs And sometimes just
overall they seem really tight and puffy (sorry, hard to describe!).