Why Building Big Legs is a Waste of Time

hi.. I m prashanth.. physically I m short looking. my legs are compare to my face and stomach it’s thin and it’s looks like disable person. Please how to solve this problem and how to make my whole legs equally fit to my body?

Thank you.

Rusty,

I know this post is old but I just wanted to put a few words from my perspective and would appreciate your comments on it.

Long time ago I read somewhere that women find men attractive if they look the opposite of them. This makes sense if you think about it.

The ideal body of a woman looks like a diamond. Thin upper body, connected to wide core (hips/thighs/butt), followed by legs slimming down to the feet. Looks similar to this:

The ideal body of a man looks like the letter X. Big arms, broad shoulders and wide back, connected to a slim core (tight butt with defined abs), followed by slender athletic legs and powerful calves. Looks similar to this: ><

If you watch closely you'll find that the symbols I made are the opposite of each other.

If women wanted big thighs, hips and ass, they would'v been better of chasing other girls, and the same goes the other way around.

Also you may notice that the exercises that build thighs, hips and ass, like squats and dead-lifts, are quiet suited for females. Butt sticking out in the air for the audience to watch while performing the movement? You get the idea.

BTW, I have noticed your picture, the one on the beach with a cigar. You are in great shape, but I can certainly see that you still have quite developed hips, probably due to does heavy squats long time ago.

Cheers!

Performance Optimization. This is how I would suggest each person determine the training for their legs. What do you do and how well do you want to do it? Then develop a strength training regimen to address that within the range of motion that you require for your activity.

The size you get or lack of size or tone will just be the result. My best advice is to accept that result if your performance is getting better, you become more or less injury free, and all factors are positive.

A decent reasonable deadlift, proper squat and bench press can help any performance athlete learn better coordinated muscle fiber recruitment, increase key hormone levels by tasking the largest muscle groups, affect joint hypertrophy and increase overall flexibility. Once a week once the skill is learned is sufficient to grow tremendously and improve in performance.

I disagree with the author about what women like. In my experience as a professional athlete, women LOVE a thick, well defined and muscular lower body, especially from the lower back down to the toes. I am not sure, though, how large or small the author meant. I know that my development was due to my sprinting, bending, jumping and weight training. It kept and keeps me injury free, fast, and balanced.

I think many bodybuilders isolate development with machines too much, and that, perhaps what the author is referring to, is asthetically kinda of unattractive. But that is not functional strength. Functional strength comes from doing compound exercises with good control. It should feel good minus the effort needed which sometimes feels irritating. To me, not much in the gym feels better than a properly executed set of a squat, incontrol, with good form, the proper weight, and pushed to near limits of reps. It doesnt have to be crazy, just once or twice a week, sometimes once every other week.

I got to do legs…I like my butt like that fluffy, tight, jumpy, bublble like… I love it.

I have found this article while looking for ideas on how to find business pants fitting my legs, since I am training them hard as well as the rest of my body.

I think the author has ZERO idea of what he is talking about, especially in regards to bodybuilding.

1) You bodybuild to build muscle, not to attract girls in the first place. If you bodybuild for that reason, you are missing the point.
2) If you don’t train legs, forget also training the rest of the body properly, since legs being the biggest muscle group of your body, they will spike up the metabolism rate and direct more nutrients towards ALL the working parts of the body: summing it up: you want big chest? Train legs!
3) Saying that cardio is helpful in building mass is like saying that resting on a couch will make you win a marathon. Complete nonsense. Cardio, as the word itself says, is concentrated on your cardiovascular system, aka the heart and blood circulation and oxygenation. It uses energy stored in the body and in the food to produce long resistance motion, not to store in the body as muscular fibre.

I don’t know where this dude is coming from to speak like he knows what he’s talking about, but I reckon he should go back in the hole where he comes from and stop misleading with his terrible advices.

Cheers,

R