10 Top Reasons Why Women Should Include a Leg Workout Into Their Fitness Routine

Don’t skip out on your leg workout!  Your legs are the strongest part of your body. Not only does it carry your body weight, it also requires the most endurance. You use them often to: walk from place to place, climb up and down stairs, dance, drive, bend down to pick up a child, get up from a chair, get out of bed, play sports etc.

Legs represent the largest muscles in your body and as such you must train them with heavy weights. In turn, this type of leg workout will increase your metabolism and increase your fat burning power.

1. Great Glutes.

Enough said!  Who wouldn’t want a nice shapely derriere that even J-Lo would envy? Developing a nice tush is just one of the many benefits to training legs.  It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

2. Improve your overall strength.

Your core muscles will become stronger as your legs get stronger thus increasing your overall strength. Your upper-body strength will improve thus helping to improve the muscle tone in the upper-body.

3. Burn more calories.

As opposed to exercising small muscle groups, multi-joint exercises like squats, deadlifts or lunges will require your heart and brain to work harder thereby increasing your metabolic levels.

4. Reduce your risk of injury.

Lower-body strength lessens the likelihood of injuring your back. Performing functional exercises (exercises that mimic everyday movements), such as lunges and squats, promotes stability in the knee which helps to prevent injuries to the knee.

5. Increased Mental Strength.

Here’s a little trade secret… leg workouts are physically & mentally hard. That’s why you see most people focusing on their upper body. However, doing squats and deadlifts will build your mental endurance & character like no other exercise. You will indeed become a Super Woman!