Best Leg Exercises

[Millard]

What would you consider the best leg exercises for mass?

Best overall, best hamstring, best glute and best quad.

No machines as gyms are closed, please.

cables, barbell, dumbell preferred.

I'm going to say deadlifts again. Different varieties of deadlifts. I love deadlifts lol. Can you tell?

 

[jJjburton]

I'm going to say deadlifts again. Different varieties of deadlifts. I love deadlifts lol. Can you tell?

They really are a great exercise for the whole body.

 

[EazyE]

Personally, I don’t think so. As far as time goes, if you’re following the rest periods you can finish this in 25 minutes. To the point of the repetitions though, I feel we use our upper body muscles a lot more because they get used as secondary muscles even on days we aren’t training those body parts. For example arms get hit on arm day and then a little on chest day and a little on back day. Legs only get hit on leg day and during deadlifts. So if you counted the reps where these muscles get used as secondary muscles and primary your weekly repetitions for each upper body muscle would be way higher than your lower body muscles. Increasing the reps on leg days will help keep total repetitions equal, if that makes sense.
The reason I do this is because I had a lot of trouble growing my lower body since I started lifting until I did this routine. I’m sure you could cut the reps down a little but there’s something about the insanely high reps that is unmatched in any other leg routine I’ve tried. This routine made me proportionate and made my woman’s legs huge. I’m a believer the legs can handle large amounts of reps, some people’s legs even need it to grow

I agree. High reps for legs are a good thing rather than just heavy low reps all the time. Tom Platz used to routinely squat for 50 reps or even just go for 10 minutes straight. He still has the best legs ever.
I like heavy leg press for 15-20 rep sets. If you really push yourself you can get 20 reps with a weight that you normally only get 8-10 with. This kind of training is achievable on leg press due to the safety of using the machine rather than free weights.

 

[EazyE]

Exactly.

They really are a great exercise for the whole body.

From regular dead’s to trap bar to rack pulls....and more. Love them all!

 

[bob357sig]

Barbell hack squats are a nice alternative to keep things interesting. They are a bitch and definitely take a little time to get used to. I did them a lot before I got a squat rack. Start light till you get the form right, they will light your quads up.