Try These 7 Workouts for Leg Day
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How does the saying go? Don’t skip leg day. But how do you do leg workouts at home? While your at-home gym most likely doesn’t have space for heavy gym equipment, it does have room for light equipment and bodyweight leg workouts. Think you can’t get a great leg day workout in without going heavy? Think again!
These 7 leg day workouts are guaranteed to get your legs burning, your heart rate up, no matter how much time you have!
45 Minutes
Abs & Lower Body Workout (Bodyweight Only!)
Exercises: single leg deadlift, donkey kicks, fire hydrants
Difficulty: Intermediate to Hard
This 45-minute lower body workout is divided into 3, 15-minute sections: a challenging leg workout (guaranteed to get those legs shakin’!), an entire glute-focused round, and an ab-burning finisher!
15 Minutes
Beginner-Friendly Back, Butt + Abs Workout (Equipment-Free!)
Exercises: bear plank lift, dead bugs, supermans
Difficulty: Beginner
With 1:00 exercises, this 15-minute workout flies by! Completely equipment-free, you can easily add dumbbells to make this a challenging posterior chain workout!
30 Minutes
Post-Run Leg Hip Strengthening Workout
Exercises: hip raises, runner’s lunge, side plank
Difficulty: Beginner
Struggling to get strength training into your weekly workout routine? This 30-minute workout is everything a runner needs! Focus on leg development, hip mobility, and core strength to make you a faster, stronger, more efficient runner. Not a running fan? This bodyweight workout is a great leg day choice for anyone!
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This e-book is custom designed specifically to create a strength training program with beginner or experienced distance runners in mind. This 67-page e-book not only gives you workouts to implement into your weekly fitness routine, but shares with you the WHY behind strength training and the importance for runners.
30 Minutes
The Ultimate Abs, Butt + Thigh Workout
Exercises: sumo squats, wall sits, side oblique crunch
Difficulty: Hard
3 circuits, 3 chances to work that lower body! This workout features a challenging thigh circuit to work the oft-forgotten muscles of the inner thigh and gluteus, by incorporating isometric holds and high repetitions. Complete this leg burner with a little dose of ab work!
30 Minutes
30 Minutes To A Better Butt + Stronger Glutes
Exercises: low lunges, hamstring leg press, clamshells
Difficulty: Beginner to Intermediate
Dedicate 30 minutes to your backside! Focus on getting the best booty ever with a series of exercises that target each individual muscle of the glute to help shape and strengthen your butt. Want to crank up the difficulty? Add in a mini band or set of dumbbells for the ultimate booty workout.
30 Minutes
No Equipment Necessary At Home Leg Workout
Exercises: thigh lifts, surrender squats, curtsy lunges
Difficulty: Intermediate to Hard
This workout is the complete lower body workout package. Spend 30 minutes working all of the muscles in your legs with a variety of lunges, squats and glute-focused exercises. This is one of our favorite leg workouts at home — all with no equipment necessary!
Compound Movement Bodyweight Leg Workout
Exercises: single leg stand ups, lunge to deadlift, glute bridge press
Difficulty: Intermediate to Hard
Get more done in less time! This workout focuses on using compound movements to work multiple muscles at one time to give you a killer burn, without the time commitment!
