What will happen if you don't train your legs when you work out

In today's society, people pay great attention to their physical health and will choose some ways to exercise their bodies. Going to the gym is a very good way. Fitness can effectively improve people's physical health, enhance people's muscle strength, etc. However, some people only focus on the upper body when exercising but do not train their legs. If this continues for a long time, some bad problems will arise. So what will happen if you don't train your legs when exercising?

1. Sexual ability will decline rapidly as muscle growth

As muscles in other parts of the body grow, the male hormone testosterone is distributed to the muscles rather than the sex organs, so the testicles receive less testosterone and sexual ability is weakened.

2. Longer and more difficult bottleneck period

Leg training is the key to stimulating growth hormone and androgen. These two hormones play a decisive role in muscle growth, an effect that cannot be compensated by any amount of protein powder and creatine. Not training the legs means slower muscle growth and a longer bottleneck period.

3. More prone to injury

The legs and buttocks are important parts that support the weight of the human body. Increasing the muscles in the upper body means increasing the weight. Without strengthening the training of the buttocks and legs, it is easy to cause an imbalance in the body's muscle strength, making it more likely to be injured in other training or daily life.

Leg training method:

Leg extension training equipment, barbell, incline leg press, hack squat machine, mechanical leg extension machine, prone leg curl training machine, seated calf heel raise machine, etc.

Quadriceps:

(1) Seated horizontal leg press: a warm-up exercise before high-intensity squats, safe and reliable.

(2) Recumbent weighted leg press: This is a classic exercise for concentrated quadriceps training. Deep squats put a lot of pressure on the waist when squatting, while recumbent weighted leg press can avoid this shortcoming, so it can be used to lift heavy weights.

(3) Barbell squat: This is the traditional squat movement. Compared with the front barbell squat, the back barbell squat can bear more weight and is safer. It can develop both the quadriceps and the gluteal muscles, so it is the first choice for most people.

(4) Smith squat: During the Smith machine squat, the vertical movement trajectory of the body is fixed by the Smith machine, which is relatively safe.

(5) Hack squat: It is one of the best exercises for leg strength training. Like the Smith machine squat, it is a squat performed with fixed equipment.

(6) Seated leg extension: This is an ideal exercise for sculpting the shape and lines of the quadriceps. This exercise will make the muscle lines on the front of the thigh clearer.

(7) Lunges: Lunges can be performed with either a barbell or dumbbells. It is a comprehensive exercise.