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The 5 Best Lower Body Exercise For Men

Want to learn some really easy and powerful lower body exercises that you can do at just about any gym? Most men forget to focus on their lower bodies, which can cause things such as muscle imbalances and poor balancing skills for everyday life.

Don’t be one of those dudes by learning some killer lower body exercise men and improve your fitness. A big chest and arms aren’t everything bro! You need to have a well-rounded fitness regime so that you can have a natural look in your lower and upper body without any noticeable difference in size and strength.

Try some of these best lower body exercises for men and give yourself a challenge! These moves are designed to improve your lower body strength, agility, flexibility and endurance. Master anyone of these exercises and you will become a very good at many other lower body exercises like squats and cardio vascular workouts too!

1. Ball Crunches

This is a very tough move to do, but it actually works your core very hard. Probably, one of the most effective abdominal workout moves ever invented. This one is great for toning the lower body and carving the perfect six pack. Add a few sets of these to your workouts by starting in the Planking position and bringing your knees to your chest.

2. Bosu Ball Squats

Flipping a bosu ball over and doing a perfect squat with our without weights in hand is extremely tough. Add these to your workout and get a tough full lower body exercise that focuses on every part of your legs, glutes and thighs. This move is very good at improving balance and stability for all other lower body exercises

3. Reverse Lunges

Not like your normal forward lunges, this move will make your muscles work through a feel they never felt before. Shred your legs and improve your lower body balance by mastering reverse lunges with or without weights.

4. Sideways Lunges

Another incredible lower body exercise that your body might make your body struggle to hold on. It’s simply tough, but once you start doing this move often you lower body will become very good at handling anything you through at it! Plus this move will carve some really nice leg muscles.

5. One Legged Squats

Even more challenging is the one-legged squats which you can do on a regular floor or on a leg-press machine. You will have to lower the weight from a normal squat exercise because you are now using one leg, but you get to focus on one leg for better results. Enjoy!

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My Leg Workout: Feel Free To Steal Ideas!

Hey Fitnesstroopers! Feel like getting a really good leg workout? Well, I have perfected this leg workout that I have worked on for a while and would like to share it with you all…

First, the routine starts with about a ten-minute warm-up on the stair master, followed by some great stretches to get those legs nice and loose. This perfect leg workout has taken me a long time to get right, so I hope you enjoy it!

My Leg Workout:

Jumping Squats

Since you need to improve your balance and get your muscles conditioned when you start a leg workout this is the best move to start with. Basically, you are just jumping high into the air into a squat position and then do about 12 to 15 repetitions, and do three sets.

jumping squat

Heavy Squats

So now I head into the most important exercise of the entire leg workout, the Barbell squat. I usually start with about forty-five pounds on each side of the bar. Then I move up in increments of twenty-five pounds until I have completed four sets of 10-12 reps.

squats
Jumping Lunges

Now for balance challenging jumping lunges, these will get your entire lower body working hard. I love the jumping moves because they make the heavy weight movements much easier. I do about three sets for 30 seconds each.

jumping lunges

Reverse Lunges

Few people do this move and rarely include it in their leg workout routines. All the more reason to use this move and build stronger legs, increasing the challenge is important. I do normally three sets on each leg, with about thirty pounds in each hand.

reverse lunges

Side Lunges

Even more stimulating and rare to see people doing is the sideways lunges. This is very challenging but if you can do three sets of 15 repetitions with about 15 pounds in each hand, that would impress me.

side lunges

Standing Calf Raises

Not to forget those calves, I just finish off with three very heavy sets of calve raises 15 repetitions each. I will start with about 250 pounds and get up to 400 pounds. Depending on your limit try to go as heavy as you can on the calf raise machine.

calf raise, calf raise machine

Do you have any other suggestions that you can add to this routine?  Leave comments below!

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