It’s a little bizarre how there are so many lifters who avoid training their lower body to create massive muscle growth.
Sure, a thick pair of quadriceps doesn’t really qualify as a “showy” muscle… and it’s doubtful that a woman has ever asked a man to “flex his hamstring” for her.
Most people want wide, thick upper bodies and neglect or ignore the other half of their muscles down below.
You’ll hear every excuse from “I run to develop my legs” or “squats are hard on my knees” or similar, lame reasons just to avoid heavy and hard leg training.
I can’t even begin to tell you how costly this mistake is…
It not only looks ridiculous having a ripped, muscular upper body sitting on top of a pair of toothpick-like legs… but imagine if you knew that avoiding focusing on the lower body limits what can be achieved in the chest, back, arms, and shoulders in terms of massive muscle growth?
Exercising your legs can do wonders for gaining massive muscle growth—it’s not just a cheap tactic to get you into the squat rack.
Most lifters think if they “train muscle X using exercise Y, then muscle X will become bigger and stronger” and that is not always true.
When you have a limited view of massive muscle growth, you run a major risk of reduced results in the gym. Instead of reaching for the kind of explosive, massive muscle growth that they are truly capable of, too many people settle for average results.
The truth is ….
Your muscle building mechanism is so much more than some basic, localized event that happens at the level of the muscle tissue!
A lot of massive muscle growth happens when the entire body as a whole is placed under stress and adapts to it. This happens due to increased testosterone and growth hormone secretion.
These hormones are seen as the “holy grail” of massive muscle growth because they determine how much or how little your muscles will grow. When bodybuilders inject anabolic steroids into their bodies, they are trying to achieve massive muscle growth by increasing the circulation of these important hormones.
Now, you want to achieve massive muscle growth but you’re a natural trainee and jamming a roid-filled needle into your butt just isn’t your style; so, you’ve got to discover different ways to speed up the production of these muscle-increasing hormones.
So, what is one of the best ways to do this?
You know it….
Hitting the leg muscles hard and heavy!
Do leg presses, lunges, squats, and stiff-legged deadlifts….
When you perform these exercises at a high level of intensity, notice how incredibly challenging and gut wrenching they can be. Ideal for massive muscle growth!
You may find yourself wishing that you hadn’t come to the gym in the first place after wrapping up an all out set of these lifts. That’s because, not only do these lifts involve the largest muscle groups on your body, they allow you to move massive amounts of weight.
But look, although these leg exercises need mental toughness and willpower, their intense difficulty forces your body to rev up its anabolic hormone production.
Since greater anabolic hormone levels mean greater muscle size and strength, your lower body is worked but your entire upper body gets the benefit, too.
If leg training is not already a regular part of your workout schedule (or treated as an after-thought), you should realize that you are missing out on significant total body gains and it’s time to change that if you want to achieve massive muscle growth.
Take me up on this challenge….
Incorporate a hard and intense day of leg training into your weekly workout schedule. Be sure to add basic compound lifts like stiff-legged deadlifts, squats, and leg presses and focus on adding more weight to the bar each week.
Try this routine for 4-8 weeks and let me know if you’ve begun to achieve massive muscle growth.
You’ll report that your strength on every single upper body exercise shot through the roof, if you’re like 99% of the population… and a big plus is that your arms, back, chest, and shoulders got thicker and more muscular as a result.
If you’re not interested, I’m not going to push you to focus on massive muscle growth or the size of your legs. But, if not for the sake of your lower body, at least think about hard and intense leg training for the sake of those upper body muscles that you care so much about.
It may not seem logical at first… but the fact is that consistent, intense leg training is the key to massive muscle growth for a ripped upper body!
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