In exercise movements, each movement has a certain effect. For example, some movements train the legs muscles, some movements train the chest muscles, and one There are many benefits for people to train muscles. But what are the benefits of training leg muscles? I believe many people don’t know. So, what are the benefits of exercising leg muscles? Let’s find out together below.
Benefits of exercising leg muscles
Legs are used very frequently in our daily life One part, no matter what we are doing or going out, we need to use our legs. Exercising leg muscles can increase our leg strength, make our center of gravity more stable, and do things more smoothly. During our exercise, if the leg muscles are developed and powerful, then we will complete the training The security is also higher.
In addition, the perfect lines of leg muscles can make our figure look more perfect and bring us greater confidence, especially in summer, the advantages are more obvious. At the same time, when we exercise leg muscles, the exercise effect of general movements is not single. It can also exercise other parts of our body. Therefore, it can also exercise multiple parts of the body at the same time, which is more effective for our exercise.
Actions to exercise leg muscles
1. Lift your legs upwards while lying on your back
Lifting your legs upwards while lying on your back is a very effective movement for us to exercise leg muscles. It is relatively simple and can be completed without any equipment. At the beginning, we need to lie on our back on the yoga mat, with our legs naturally relaxed and close together. With arms at our sides, we can begin the movement when we are ready. Use the strength of the waist and abdomen and the strength of our legs to support our legs and push up. The higher we can lift, the better. Keep our legs together and straight at all times, and try to keep our waist off the ground. After reaching the limit, we can put the legs back and start the action again.
2. Squat movement
Squat is a very effective movement for us to exercise our legs, and it is also very simple and easy to do. At the beginning, we open our legs shoulder-width apart, straighten our back, chest and abdomen, and place our arms on both sides of the legs. At the beginning of the action, we start to do squats, and keep repeating the squat and rise movements, completing 3 groups at a time. , each group can perform 30 to 50 movements. If we want better exercise effects, we can choose weight-bearing squats.
3. Stiff-legged deadlift
The most important part of the straight-legged deadlift is the position of our legs, which we can complete with the help of a barbell. At first we put the barbell in front of our feet. We leaned over and tried to see if we could grab the barbell, but we were careful not to bend our legs. If possible, we can perform the action. At the beginning, we open our legs shoulder-width apart, let our upper body bend over, grab the bar with both hands, and lift the barbell upwards. When our body stands straight, the barbell can reach the root of our thighs. position, 20 actions can be completed at one time.