Is Skipping Leg Day Okay? 🤔
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Never skip leg day is a common statement online. If we want to have well rounded strength and aesthetics, leg training is key. Some people don't workout their lower body in order to maximize upper body performance. What is your approach to this topic?
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I don't understand why you've said that lower body development won't help with your upper body skills. What about a front lever? Could you unpack that?
My progress in pullups is severely limited due to my beefy ass. I have grown to accept it.
No limits. It should make the rest of you beefy 😂👍
No excuses man
That's a plus. More weight = More strength. And you don't even need external weights. You have it great.
Sounds ridiculous, but if you try doing a strength training day with weights for pull ups, for idk 3 sets of 4 to 5 and then do a muscle building day for higher amount of reps 8 above, it's technically a cheat code to being able to do more reps are currently weight, you'll feel like a feather.
Huh?
Dude is literally a professional.
If you don't have leg day in your routine you can't skip it.
If you dont go to the gym you cant skip any day!
@@andi8654Thank you for highlighting how stupid their comment was 🤣
Mind blown 😅
@@ElusiveTy it was a joke XDD
Another angle
Skipping legs can also lead to weakness to then injuries..
The biggest muscle in the body are your gluteus. It be counterproductive not to train them.
My butt is really large like it’s bigger than cardi b’s or nicki Minaj help
Facts, lower back pain is from weak glutes, most of the time.
@@ronnana694same
@@Thymed mines 49” in circumference hbu
@@ronnana694send pics or youre lying
I went from doing 1 leg day a week and hating it to doing 2 leg day a week with proper volume and absolutely loving leg days. Kneeovertoe guy and squat university made my love leg days.
Same, they provide great content
Me too bro!!! I legit look forward to my leg days!
Never skip leg day boys, my girl is constantly rubbing and squeezing my quads says what nice legs I have she also love how my glutes are pretty solid
My glutes are so hard that I’m suffering from it when I sit for way too long(ehem school’s 7 hours of total sitting)
@@RedGamingChairI bet you don't stretch. Flexibility is just as important as strength, as it helps you have proper length tension relationships in your muscles. Try doing 30 second sets of a couple different leg and back stretches (especially glutes if that's a problem area) a couple times a week and see massive improvement
@@RedGamingChairtry including some mobility training in your routine, believe it helps a lot.
@@RedGamingChairi can help you stretch your glutes
I just realized how hard my glutes are ;-;
Been a life long hater of leg day, recently some switch flipped and now they are my favorite exercise to do, it's like hell training them but so rewarding
Don't think "leg day", "X body part day", think "push", "pull", "jump/run" etc. and legs will find their place nicely.
Few things in life feel more rewarding than completing a set of squats with your PR weight.
no @@vladcraioveanu233
Its all about balance!! Front/ back, left right and upper and lower body. This is the most sustainable for all years to come💪💪💪
Calves and tibialis (which still nobody’s heard of)
@@CursedWheelieBinTraining Tibialis is helping with knee pain. Just like forearm training helps for elbow pain. Its all about balance
I train legs cuz I’m gonna be an old man one day and I’d like to have enough strength to stand up 😂
Thought true, I find legs to be the most beneficial for endurance training. That's why I train my legs for endurance rather than for strength, although not exclusively, ofc.
Your legs are strong if you are training them in endurance activities. They may not be big, but they are strong.
They're (relatively) small, but I can do at least 5 one leg squats, so you're definitely right.
@@NeoArmstrongJetArmstrongCannonThen you're doing just fine. It's quite surprising how few people can do even a single one leg squat.
i never skip legs, there have been times where i was really tempted to but i just push through it. i love training upper body more than legs tbh.
Chicken legs are free comedy 😂
I’m really glad he answered that question so perfectly in every way!!! 😮 so refreshing ❤❤
Man, do I love your videos.
You look so dead inside but you really know what you're doing.
But you gotta be Johnny Bravo for that perfect V tapered Dorito look 😂.
I would never have expected to see a Johnny test reference here lmao
X frame looks better than a V
Feel like there's a lot of gains that people are missing out of they skip out on leg days. Overall it improves your CNS and your upper body will be a lot stronger because of it.
Bodybuilders that skip legs look like Pixar villains
I actually love leg/glute days and HATE arms 😂
That's freakish, I envy you.
what gender?
Usually fat people.
@@greigite5191 ♀️
@@tj-ln2epur living up to the stereotype 😂
fair play tho
I had a dude tell me to stay away from leg work outs completely because it puts fluid in your knees when you’re older. He said they’re bad to do. I still work out legs.
Speaking of that I been slacking in the gym lately. Haven’t been getting enough sleep at night. I definitely need to step my game up.
Most important thing for me is that it’s helped my back pain. Don’t underestimate that
Including legs at the beginning of strength-intensive workouts after the warm-up (with isometrics, for example) is beneficial (for muscle growth and testosterone production), or so I’ve read.
If you want 30 perfect pullups, toothpick legs will make it a lot easier to get there.
@@jakemccoy I may envy whomever has enough liberty to live to workout even for awhile, rather than working out to live (longer or better), but no part of your hypothetical shows any appeal, nor promise/merit, despite what is said in this short (imo) as if anybodys going to grow weight in their feet, or self-induce atrophy for cosmetic skills, &I don’t want to get started on your 30(!?!) “perfect” pull-ups (you ever intend on adding weight or slowing down ffs)
@@EpiphanySME I just wanted to clarify that Daniel is correct. Beefy legs will hinder your performance in upper body calisthenics. Whether that is OK is a personal decision. (I have beefy legs.)
One can train legs without them becoming beefy too, for example bodyweight or cardiovascular things like running, jumping rope, etc @@jakemccoy
i love training legs day fam, never skip them and never will😂
The new trend online is that if you don't have 30+ inch legs, you must "skip leg day." It makes sense for bodybuilders to want that level of hypertrophy.
But training legs 2-3x per week consistently has my legs at 27 inches which I'm happy with. I don't want to add a ton of extra mass because I enjoy still being able to sprint, jump, and be mobile.
strong legs are needed for carrying heavy objects, running and jumping without injury, reduce fatigue while running, they are literally the only thing that separates you from the ground, there's no real reason to don't train them, also even women usually find thick butts atractive in men, also lower body training usually helps with sexual performance
in terms of quality of life legs are by far the most important muscle group to train
That Johny Bravo was personal😂
Having strong legs and a strong butt has its many advantages. For one, speaking from experience, the police or anyone else trying to pin you down on the grown will have a hard time.
I'm getting back into fitness and doing it also and steady this time.
I started where I was weakest, my core for back issues (McGill Big 3 are a life changer!).
Next logical step for me immediately after that was squats.
I just... You should focus on being over all health. That's what I'm doing anyways. That's really my only goal.
Leg day is my favorite day but unfortunately, I've fractured my left femur during a basketball game. I am walking again after 1 month out of surgery, and I managed to gain my upper body size back. All I need to do is regain the size on my legs, not being able to do barbell pause squats was very sad for me haha.
You'll get it back pretty fast
I dont train for aesthetics, I train for performance and for that strong and capable legs, gutes, hips etc. are super important. You generate so much power through your lower body. I.e. I loaded ~360 boxes (medium weight) into a truck yesterday. Nothing special. Lots of walking, lots of carrys, a lot of hip hinge movement. A strong lower body will help you with that.
I think it depends. Rock climbers, for example, benefit greatly from having smaller legs because it’s less weight to carry when climbing.
i never skip leg day cuz if i do my physique will look ridiculous and il have a weak lower body that wont support my upper body balance is key so dont skip leg day !
A lot of us don’t skip leg day, we just have small leg genetics aka chicken legs. Can’t fix them without steroids and that def ain’t happening
I have the opposite problem, I'm always training legs so I still can't do more than 5 body weight pullups. I still work on them, just hitting a plateau
One of the essential parts of the body are the glutes and hips which are targeted on leg exercises
Coming from a climbers perspective here, and that's an area where skipping legs is really prominent. Actually, I've had a buddy tell me I should quit cycling if I want to get good at climbing, mostly because leg mass is seen as detrimental on harder grades.
It’s about specificity if you are in to statics training legs is stupid if you want to maximise performance. Just like cyclist have skinny arms and big legs or marathon runners have very little muscle it all come down to your goals (I do statics and train my legs tho cause a care also for aesthetics)
I just keep calling them Doritos until they inevitably learn to change their ways.
I skip legs because I'm really serious about armwrestling. I don't want the systemic fatigue from training legs to affect my really important arm wrestling training
I mean if your legs gain muscle and weight, then its going to be a lot harder doing a pull-up or push-up. Therefore, getting you a lot stronger.
Honestly, pull days are what I usually skip. There's something about curls, pullups, shrugs, and those sort of things that I find really boring and unsatisfying to do. Leg day is great because you feel amazing afterwards, chest/push day is also great because you look big afterwards, but pull days are just... Boring.
Never skip the leg day 💪
I guess you can think of an increase in legs mass as a progressive overload workout for the rest of your body weight workout. 😂
I would disagree because training legs, as long as it's not about adding mass, can really help for certain skils where you need to learn contracting your glutes and hamstrings very hard. I believe a good balance can be found
my man johnny catching strays out there
Common guys, legs and waist distribute all the power to the top. Pure hanging, pulling etc. is minor in real life. Also it gives hormone boost, athletic abilities, prevention to injury, health, not just strenght and mass down there.
Never forget that training legs and so lower body help to improve your third leg, just that is enough to praise leg day
the reason i sometimes skip leg day is because although doing squats and leg presses develops my quads, it exponentially develops my glutes and i don't want to have a big ass even if i have all the muscles in the world
Ever since I started squatting heavy, my bench went up. It has something to do with CNS priming.
Leg workout is so important beside having overall symmetry. Especially as you get older like me in my 60s , it’s so crucial as a therapist to build up strength and balance. What’s the point of having big chest and arms but having a pair of chicken legs. When people look at your physique, they look at your whole body not just the upper body .
Well every body is different doing legs really helped me unlock my back and chest gains, and overall core stsbility goes off the charts. Stuff you cant really accomplish without hitting legs
I very much want to do it safely. & there doesn’t seem to be too many people who share that.
Im not à fan of training leg to the gym because I find leg exercices boring. However, there is other ways to train leg: biking, hiking, running...
If your goal is to be able to use your body, including functional exercices like that do the trick :) plus it work cardio
rare footage of calisthenics athlete that actually trains legs
I do every now and then. Jump squats and jumping lunges are killer.
it helps in explosive movemnts and bests your punches
Im dumb but dont our legs always work out because we walk and move a lot? Or only when you do specific exercises then we work our legs?
That second pic got me in stitches man 😅
ay ay my man Johny bravo look great you don't have to give his example to make me train legs
I needed to hear this. Still struggling to put mass on my calf muscles though… cycling, running, stairclimber… it just seems impossible to gain mass.
MORE MORE MORE, intensity or frequency
If you have the power in your legs then, it's better.
Calf are very genetic
try lifting weights
Try training them with hypetrophy training instead of indirectly. High reps, 2-3 times a week and you're golden.
It’s not just aesthetics either, your quads are the secondary pumps of the circulatory system.
and play a huge roll in overall nervous and circulatory system health.
Especially if you work a desk job, Train your legs damn it.
your equipment works a lot better if you don't skip leg day
Bro gave Johnny Bravo a shout out
Proper strength training of the legs actually does have a benefit to the upper body. The human body operates as a system. I have personally experienced this and numerous studies have proven it to be true.
If i skip legs day but do 2 intense legs exercises before every workout is that okay?
Legs are the muscles that provide explosiveness in all other exercises and sports. Why would anyone not want to train them? Some of the examples of sports are boxing, basketball, and muay thai. Soreness after a leg day and feeling like throwing up are the only bad parts
Honestly, I am not a huge fan of doing leg day (at least I'm not a fan on leg day), but in terms of everyday functionality, having capable legs (strong and flexible) is going to be more beneficial than being able to do 25 muscle ups and handstand pushups or whatever. They say you're only as young as your back feels. Well, let me tell you that if your knees and ankles are no good, then your back will be no good also.
Havin a dump truck and a good set of wheels makes your bodyweight skills more difficult so it’s like weighted calisthenics
I'm a guy (born as a guy) and I like doing arms alot, but I like doing legs atleast as much, maybe even more. Also I look forward to leg days and don't dread them like most people so:D
I just started working out again after an almost 2 month brake, so I haven't tried max yet, but before that 2 months my max on bench was 3x40kg (88lbs), but my max deadlift was 110kg, so 2.75x my bench😂
This might be very biased.. but im a runner. So i usually dont train heavy legs cause then i wont be able to run for several days... recovery takes alot of time.
Does cardio count as leg day?
Well ye strong legs don't have huge benifit for calisthenics since most skills don't use legs just upper body maybe some glutes and hamstrings with back lever front lever and muscle up using glutes but, or maybe for keeping legs straight, legs have a contribution to many skills even plank and push ups but nowhere near stress put on core and upper bod, but being able to squat or lunge heavy doesn't offer huge advantage, only leg cali skills are pistol squats, Nordics and reverse Nordics,, 1leg hipthrust. I think it's a good idea to train legs with cali while upper body recovering do leg stuff like pistols since legs have benifits for other sports, I don't bother with legs I just run xc up hills and cycling
I skip legday because I’m a guy with an absolute fatty, it’s so bad that I sometimes have trouble buying pants. It has gotten so bad that some people I don’t t even know only know me as the guy with a fat ass. (No it’s not bc I’m fat, I’m at a 13% bfp)
I'll be 100% honest: I'd rather have a hard time nailing some strength skills BUT having huge well-trained legs, than having skinny legs all day. Leg day has also become psychologically rewarding for me at this point so, big NOPE to skipping leg day.
I am one of them who enjoy every leg sesion and just feel burn in legs but still doing reps it feels good 😅 and also training failures on leg extension.
How do you maintain stability with a low tone in your lower body? How do you maintain an L-sit if you have no quad strength? How about glutes, lower back? It's all tied in, how did his answer transform into an aesthetic reason? Good luck dealing with knee pain by doing pull ups..
the first guy with "Gold Gym" logo might have pretty well-developed legs
Bro that second pic tho 😂
This is an op duo/collab
It's clear neither of you have seen Johnny Bravo, as if you rewatch his transformation clip, the point of the way he's standing in the full band is to show that he is training a barbell overhead squat variation, the animators at the time did NOT know how to make thick legs look fluid with movement, so they left him in a pair of jeans.
Sadly using animation limited at the time is not a cue, you have to use the animation they used for his transformation, which shows him performing legs as well.
The greatest example of Johnny Bravo is that his upper body is over drawn, in all reality, a more life-like Johnny Bravo would look like Van Damme, tiny looking legs but we know there's muscle, anyone's who's seen Double Impact will tell you: Van Damme was a muscular beast.
I can’t believe I met this guy at my gym before he was popular on TH-cam 😂
Skip legs? Nah, I skip upper body. Do I..
A) run
B) cycle
C) taekwondo
D) chat shit for attention online
I can’t do leg day anymore or run. I have hip joint problems, and my discs are damaged from my T12 to my S1.
Being against leg day skipping is 100% a moral opinion based on aesthetics.
I guess have tiny legs makes your small upper body look bigger
lower body strength will help your upper body in real life tasks.
i disagree that training lower body will not help upper body skills, any sort of training that adds strength to the body from the lumbar down makes holding plenty of calisthenics and gymnastics body positions a lot easier.
As strange as this sounds: if you skip legs then you’re actually drastically limiting how much UPPER body muscle you can build. Yes, upper body.
I learned this in my mid 20s. See for yourselves
For people who want to specialise in upper body skills that's just another advantage. Muscle size is a negative if you care about skills.
Was contemplating skipping leg day when this video popped up 😂
Push, pull, legs, push, pull, cardio, rest
Even the leg day skippers know that it's not optimal to skip leg day
Dont skip leg day or core. That wherer real testosterone. . together with well balanced diet with a lot of protein can build muscle, even on leg day and upoer boddy alike, and core is where real well rounded. Strength comes in bc it conects upper and lower body
Twisted one of my muscles been off leg day for a week now and am pissed off at myself for walking down too many steps at once
Can you make a video on how far should from the wall my hand should be in wall handstand pushups
I as a runner, only have leg week!
Meanwhile I only train my legs lol
Leg day everyday baby
Yes do skip leg day. That way I can get on the rack and do my squats.
Whoa. This is the first time I’ve seen Tim Pool without his beanie
When you’re a runner, EVERYDAY is leg day
i was going to ask, if you run a lot but also work out on upper body… is that ok if you don’t do leg day? i get running involves all legs but are they being strengthened really?
@@iSwearToCodno you have to squat
Leg day skippers don't want big thighs to overshadow mr happy
The largest muscle group in the body is the glute zone. Zee bum.
When you work your glutes you have power of movement.
Horse power. :)
And, higher metabolism.
A friend once noted that (generally speaking) the English-speaking countries skip leg daze. What's that about? Is that even a thing?
At least do pistol squat and glute bridge for activation in planche and Front lever