Legs day everyday!
Never skip a leg day
Leg workouts are an important aspect of a balanced, whole-body fitness routine that builds strength, speed, and stability. It’s important to stay consistent with your leg workouts since these large muscles are an integral part of your overall fitness. Plus, it’s easier for your body to adapt to the workouts and develop good habits that will help you to meet your fitness goals.Strong leg muscles keep your body balanced, which isn’t possible if you focus solely on your upper body. Working your glutes, quads, and hamstrings with exercises such as deadlifts, squats, and lunges helps to maximize and boost athletic performance. Avoid overtraining your quads and balance your routine to target your glutes and hamstrings as well. Lower-body muscles create a strong, stable foundation. Rooting your lower body into the ground helps to create resistance that travels upward into your core and upper body. You utilize lower-body strength to do all types of movements, including upper-body movements such as throwing, batting, or reaching overhead.
GfM legs routine
Giorgia fitMindset workouts have more than 40 different exercises specific to the lower body. I split them into two main categories, one called “butt and easy legs” and the other called “strong legs”.
“Butt and Easy Legs” includes: donkey kicks and butt bridge with more than 15 modifications. In addition, we have all the inner thigh exercises such as legs circles, rainbows, open & close, etc.
“Strong Legs” includes: squats, lunges, and all the various modifications.
To increase the intensity of the leg exercises we use the fitness ball, elastic band and a broomstick. On top of that, we involve leg work in most of our cardio exercises.
Thus, we always challenge our legs in some way.
We mainly exercise our lower body in the following class:
Plank 1 + Easy legs and Butt
Plank 2 + Strong Legs
Total Body 1 (Easy legs and Butt)
Total Body 2 (Strong Legs)
Broomstick (both)
All the Tabata (Strong Cardio Legs)
Lower Body Efficiency
Giorgia fitMindset sports conditioning supports great benefits for our lower body.
Last Friday we did our broomstick class that involves “strong legs” and “abs,” and even though it’s probably the fifth time in the last 3 months that we have completed this workout, it is always effective. The day after, I went for a run and my legs were so heavy. The first few minutes were very painful, but as soon as I warmed up I was ready to go. My motivation was even stronger due to the accomplishment of having worked out so hard during the week.
In my opinion, It’s harder to train legs than the rest of the body. That’s why I am so proud of my leg workouts, because I know they lead to great results. Results of these workouts include: defined legs muscles, tight butt, and remission of cellulite. On top of that, it’s very important to have leg muscles strengthened in order to prevent joint injuries.
