Of all the muscle groups in your body, the quadriceps is a four-headed muscle that stands out as essential for athletic performance and aesthetics. This dumbbell quad workout will help you build lower body strength and muscle mass without expensive gym equipment. When leg day rolls around, it’s time to get serious. Without any doubt, … Read more
No training equipment? That’s no reason to skip leg day! Commercial gyms are filled with various training equipment for your lower body muscles, but you can build your quads, hamstrings, and glutes using only dumbbells. StrengthLog’s Leg Workout With Dumbbells is everything you need: the best dumbbell leg exercises for the best possible results. You … Read more
Key Points: A new study compared quad muscle growth from five weeks of squat vs. leg extension training. Leg extensions were found to provide superior muscle growth in the rectus femoris compared to squat training. Vastus lateralis tended to grow more in the distal parts (25% and 50% of femur length) from squat training but … Read more
Your quad muscles, or quadriceps, are by far the largest muscle groups in your body. They’re the prize of your legs, making up the front of your thigh. And, if you’ve been training them diligently: they’re the muscles bulging out under your pants or shorts. Since your leg muscles are so important for sports, and … Read more