They say if you have strong legs, you have a stronger body.
When it comes down to it, our legs are the driving force for superhuman
conditioning. In football, you need strong and fast legs to run down the field,
in basketball, you need quick footwork in order to defend or move with the
ball, in Baseball; your hips and legs help hit homeruns and steal bases and
also running down the ball for a diving catch. If you’re in the military, we
need our legs to carry our comrades, our equipment and to run down the enemy in
combat. Law Enforcement needs strong legs to take down suspects in the toughest
of situations. Let’s face it; our legs are our best weapons.
In
mythology, one of the strongest deities is the Satyr Pan. Although he has a
reputation for having a crazy sex-drive and having courting many nymphs, he’s
one of the strongest and most agile creatures in the stories. His entire lower
body is that of a goat which gives him a distinct advantage in running down his
enemies but also defend himself with powerful legs. He is a symbol of virility
and superhuman leg strength. Our legs give off more energy than just about
everywhere else in the human body because it is the center of our hormones.
Our legs
are the center of our hormones. If you do it right, we give off natural growth
hormone which helps us in health, vitality, strength, stamina and an increase
of testosterone. For men this is crucial and it’s important to put in good
amount of time dedicated to leg training. Our bodies shift into overdrive when
you use our legs. One of the key ingredients for mighty legs is to do sprints.
For up to no more than 30 seconds we run down somewhere as fast as we can
muster. Marathon training is good in some
cases but if you want lean muscle mass than you better move fast. Like the
Satyr, Animal Training is very good in increasing your testosterone levels to a
great degree, say like doing frog jumps, duck walks, running like a bear or
sprinting like an Emu, these will create a shift in the body that will develop
powerful muscle but increase your conditioning at the same time.
The
foundation for powerful legs is the Squat. You don’t need to lift weights to
get an awesome leg workout but with the right tools, you can have that option
and is just as powerful. Bodyweight Squats however give off more hormone
induced energy in my opinion because there are many ways to do a squat but if
you do them in high numbers, a Satyr might have some stiff competition. Another
great form of training to get your legs going is doing Isometrics. When you do
Leg Isometrics, you’re working the body from all sorts of angles and
strengthening the tendons and ligaments that keep the body together. Imagine
being on the gridiron and pivoting, running and moving in a diagonal direction
on the field and never getting injured because of your strong tendons.
How many
injuries can you count where an athlete or the average person got injured and
it was due to torn muscles and ripped tendons in the legs? Countless. I
definitely share some ground with this from my injury back in 2005. I had to
rebuild my body from scratch and constantly had to work my legs to where it was
pain-free. To this day I still have some discomfort because of the rod and pins
holding my bones together but can still knock out over 100 squats without
batting an eye and maintain great flexibility in my legs that I could never do
when I was in my teens. Take the time to work on your legs. For women, you want
those sleek and toned but strong legs, squat and get in some leg work because
strong legs create a strong person. If you got legs, make them super strong,
fast, agile and powerful because it becomes crucial when you need them the
most.
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