A 10 minute leg workout? Why? The legs... even though they are not often seen by friends and colleagues, they are an extremely important muscle group of your body. They are the foundation of the house that is you. Strong legs will make it easier to stand all and walk day and besides that training your legs helps to 'motivate' your lungs which is beneficial for your endurance. And this is how to train them in just 10 minutes.. in your office if necessary!
Exercises
Unlike the 10 minute chest workout where we used just one exercise, in the 10 minute leg workout we will be using three special ten minute leg exercises
Kick Squats
This is my own variation on the squat. It's a exercise I often do in my martial arts trainings.
You start of in a low squat position (the angle between you lower and upper leg is smaller than 90 degrees)
Push yourself up in a standing position
Pull up and kick with you left leg.
Go back down in the starting position
Come back up and now kick with your right leg
Side Lunge Switch
Stand straight with your legs a bit wider than shoulder width
Move your weight to your left leg
Bend your left leg as far possible without lifting your heels from the floor, tap the floor with your hand on the left side of your leg
Now shift yourcentre of gravity to your other leg, which means, bend your right leg and stretching your left , now tap the floor on the right side of your leg
Keep shifting your weight from the left leg to your right leg, each time tapping on the outside
Lunges
Stand with both feet next to each other
Step out with your left leg and bend right leg until it your right knee almost touches the ground
Push yourself back in the starting position with your left leg
repeat with your right leg
the best 10 Minute Leg Workout
Your are going to do every of these exercise for half a minute, in these 30 seconds you will try to do as many reps as possible
After you complete a set of every exercise rest for 1 minute
Do a total of 4 sets
After the last set take a rest of just 30 seconds
The last 30 second you will go in to the horse position (stand with you feet slightly wider than your shoulders and bend your knees until your thighs are parallel to the ground) and you will keep this position as long as possible, this either means till failure or until your out of time
Combine
The 10 minutes leg workout can easily be combined with our Crazy Abs Circuit. For a complete Abs, butt and legs training.
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