subject: Why Anyone's Leg Muscles Must Be Tended To [print this page] All those familiar with exercise understand how important it is to work all the groups of muscles to ensure that the strength is built up along with the muscles. The best looking body is the one that has an even distribution of muscle and is in proportion.
You don't need me to spell out the importance of proportion. Imagine a bulging chest with a weak back, or broad shoulders and weedy arms. Having a workout that incorporates exercise specific to all these areas will ensure that you don't have this problem.
Why are legs so neglected? It makes no sense to me whatsoever. Think about it logically, they are muscles; they need to be bulked up as well as the rest of you for obvious reasons.
That is to end up completely out of proportion and looking positively comedic. Think of all the cartoons you have seen with the men with enormous bodies and the skinny little legs, this is what happens when you concentrate all your efforts on your upper body. In other words, you just look stupid!
These are the obvious bad points of not working out your legs properly, but there are some damn good reasons too for exercising them. The main one is that fact that working out your legs is how you will produce your happy hormones; Endorphins.
Endorphins are most often felt in the form of an energetic buzz when you have had a really strenuous workout. Instead of feeling tired, you feel brilliant and full of energy. It's your legs that have given you that buzz.
Due to the increased strength in your legs, your runs will now be for a lot longer and at a much greater speed. This will keep increasing until you become quite an athlete.
So know that you know all this, make sure that your workout always includes specific leg work. These are one of the most important groups of muscles in the body, so make sure that you work them well.
