Three Top Women’s Leg Exercises
Women’s leg exercises should be a priority for most women who are not only trying to tone up their legs but also to lose body fat due to the largest muscles which are in your legs. And as you probably know that the more muscles you have the more calories you burn even when you are resting, and that is due to the high metabolic rate of muscles as opposed to fat.
As a woman, besides improving the look of your legs, you want to make sure you build enough strength because these legs will carry you for the rest of your life so you want to do your best to strengthen them, other than just walking.
I will provide three of my favorite exercises that you can include in your workouts:
Body weight Squats (with dumbbells, barbell, or just body weight)
Body weight squats are basic but very effective, and need to be included in women’s leg exercises. However, I don’t see many women perform this exercise either because they believe it is not effective, or they avoid it because it is hard to perform.
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I encourage you to practice this exercise and gradually becoming good at it where you can perform as many as one hundred repetitions or more.
Walking Lunges (with dumbbells or just body weight)
The lunges train one leg at a time while the other one is supporting mostly for balance. This exercise requires coordination and balance which makes an excellent leg exercise to add to your workout.
When you perform the walking part of it, then you raise the difficulty level a bit and turn it to an awesome calorie-burning exercise.
Fast Running
Yes, believe it or not, that fast running style is an effective arsenal to be included in women’s leg exercises, and it is one of the best kept secret exercises to strengthen women’s legs. This exercise gives you “The Look of The Olympic Sprinter’s Legs” that you see on T.V. However, it is not easy to do in the beginning.
That is why you need to start gradually by performing three or four sets of fast running that can last from 20 to 30 seconds, and ultimately you want to perform up to 60-70 seconds. Also, try in the beginning, to exercise using a track because the surface is smooth and clean. And the better you become at it, then you can use trails.
Fast running is basically when you run faster than jogging or the regular running, but slower than sprinting. Fast running should be demanding enough to make you huff and puff in 30 and up to 70 seconds depending on your fitness level.
Mohamad has been writing articles online for nearly 5 years now. Not only does this author specialize in nutrition and physical fitness but you can also check out his latest trail hiking shoes website and his passion for hiking gears which talks about some of the best men’s hiking shoes.
