A 10 minute leg workout can hit the muscles of your quads, glutes, hamstrings, calves, and even hips. You might notice the pattern of switching the muscle groups from exercise to exercise. For example, one exercise will focus on the quads, the next on the hamstrings, the next on the calves, etc.
The idea is to keep your body moving from exercise to exercise while letting an individual muscle group recover a little bit before it has to go again.
As you get a little more advanced, you may want to look into the 20 minute workouts or substituting some exercises in these workouts. For example, instead of air squats, do jump squats. Even better, if you have some room do broad jumps. That might not seem like a big change, but tell me that after you try to do 20 or 30 broad jumps in a row.
There is more than enough in any of these 10 minute leg workouts to get you to start feeling it. Just make sure you are always watching your form. In fact, when you start to get fatigued and your form starts to break down, it's either time to switch to an exercise that focuses on a different muscle group or even give yourself a 10-count.
I can't stress it enough that proper form will keep these exercises effective and will help you avoid injury. When form breaks down your body starts cheating and contorting in all kinds of weird ways that will causes stresses and strains you don't want. You will get tired, but always focus on your form and make sure you are getting it right.
Not much at all to remember here. Watch out though. You're probably going to feel your hamstrings for about a week. Here is all it is.
You've noticed by now that you can do a lot with a 10 minute leg workout. There are all kinds of different exercises that work the leg muscles in slightly different ways.
So when you substitue one quad exercise for another in one of these workouts, you are working your muscles in a new way that they aren't used to. And that's the key to making progress and avoiding the plateau.
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