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As a calisthenics guy, i would superset pistol squats with nordic curls(4 sets each) and do calf raise for 3 sets. And done there's my leg workout. I only do this twice a week. Doesn't take more than 25 minutes. Simple but effective.

Beside your well thought and organized programs you offer, the countless videos you have uploaded for all of us to see and educate ourselves, for free, i immensely respect and appreciate your words in each and every video. People don't understand how much time consuming is to create one of your videos, and especially one with a lot of talking, like this one. The truth is that when i watch your videos, i truly pay attention to what you say, each sentence and each word. They are so well organized and there is not a single word unnecessary or redundant. You always get your point across and make sure you are coherent and practical with what you say. There have been times when i watch the same video of yours and i keep discovering new meanings and concepts i hadn't realised when i watched it for the first time. They are so packed with information and advice that one needs to focus and pay attention to grasp what you are saying and why. What i know, and apply to my training, basically comes from you. I have,as we all have, watched and listened to many fitness influencers and athletes, but you were the reason/motivation for me to search and learn. You made my training sustainable, enjoyable and effective. For all of these reasons i always respect, appreciate, support, admire, love and follow FitnessFaqs and Daniel himself. Happy 2024 Daniel! Thank you for teaching, inspiring, being honest and consistent, and mostly for being a beautiful example of what true passion, hard work, constant learning and integrity can achieve! All the best!👏🙏❤️

Bigger legs simply burn more calories as you use them even when just walking around. As someone who loves good food and also enjoys having a drink with friends, this is such a great reason to train legs. They simply help with not putting on weight.

FYI you might have a mic issue, the "s" sounds are kind of harsh

The thing with skipping leg day, which I recently realized is that it creates imbalances which may result in injuries or chronic pain.

Great video, Daniel. Last year, I put some real work on my lower body following your advice and saw results beyond my expectations, although I didn't go for failure every workout. Happy New Year. We appreciate your work.

Excellent video as usual with a lot of various aspects to think about, all delivered in a calm and respectful way. Well Done Daniel!

168cm 68kg here. I do calisthenics but once a week i do one set for legs. I usually max out with 60kg and thats it. Yesterday i tried 80kg x5 at the gym and it went pretty well. My legs look trained and they perform very well at jumping and sprinting so there you go. You dont need to blast your legs like a gym bro but please keep them functional and decent looking. Its very easy

This video convinced me to start training legs again.

I really appreciate your fitness advice, which you deliver in a no-nonsense way, in such a calm and relaxed voice. It's so refreshing, compared to some well-known YTers who basically scream and hype everything they say.

This is why I do full body workouts. If every day is leg day, there's no temptation to skip leg day. Nor will you accumulate as much fatigue as you would from a dedicated leg day because of all the volume you have to do in one workout to progress.

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I started going to the gym cause my knees were going bad, so everyday was leg day. But since I was there anyways, started doing upper body too, and 4 years later, focusing on legs is still a joy

2:58 This statement should literally echo across the entire fitness industry as I cannot stress this enough. Everyone that never cares about the whole leg prefers bigger or more toned arms and torso, sometimes quads too. But otherwise calves, soleus, and shins are easily frowned upon. I see competitions where they stand with twigs but have remarkable upper body presentation, and the question that comes in mind is “why?”

When you build a house You have to start with the foundation, the legs are the foundation of the body

I enjoy leg training but I've never done it consistently or really cared since all my goals are upper body skills and at 190cm many are already not possible for me without getting heavier on top of that. Looking at the rare exceptions who can perform those skills despite being heavy isn't very compelling since I'm unlikely to be on that level. I'm running out of time to make progress as it is so making it slower for no reason just doesn't seem worth it.

Mike Tyson got huge quads by 1000 squats!!! Now imagine him doing handstands and planche 😅 pure calisthenics bro.

Dude your gym has sick leg machines. If I had those I'd be all on that.

Especially for taller guy strong legs and glutes are important for calisthenics skills, nordic curls really helped me to do a L Sit and I can see an improvement in my front lever as well.

Focus on weighted pull ups but have began to train my legs harder than ever before by a significant margin roughly 3 weeks ago. It could just be a coincidence but I had a bit of an upper body strength breakthrough the other day. Would like to think that the leg training had at least a small part in it. Thinking that perhaps the effort and determination I put into the leg training spilled over to other parts of my training. Also, though I assume the effect is overstated, maybe my body produced slightly more growth hormon and testosterone as a result of the much tougher leg training. Started doing 7 sets of heavy belt squats 12-15 reps ( 5 min rest between sets) on my leg day followed by isolation exercises. Have a lower back issue and don't want to load my spine so belt squats is a good exercise. Aiming to do 20 reps per set. I'm using a weight that is very heavy for me so I have to pause at the top for the reps. So each set is more like continuous 1 reps. Hell lol. Toughens you up that's for sure. Previously I did a lot of stuff for my legs but never squats because of the spine issue. Never considered belt squat machine before.

I never skips leg day, Since you can't skip leg day if it's not even included in your program right?

Can you do a video on RDL technique? That would be awesome!

I don't think I'd ever consider myself someone who's overly concerned with having massive or super strong legs, but I do train them for symmetry and balance.

Talk about motivation on leg day

Grease the Grove (5x5) reps for deadlifts or squats really boosts testosterone, morale, optimism, and positive motivation in life with virtually no sweat. It’s a form of strength training with higher weight and long rests up to 15 minutes between sets. It can be added into daily life such as while housecleaning, working at a computer etc.

I do bodyweight sissy squats and bulgarian single leg squats, 15-30 reps for 3-5 sets, two or three times a week as my leg workout because I don't really have access to high enough weights for my legs(I don't have a gym membership or high weights at home, just a small dumb bell and a pull up bar). I tried the gym once to see my leg strength and warmed up on leg press with a plate a side for 20 reps, and worked up to 4 plates a side for 8 reps before my messed up knees started to feel off(osgood schlatter). Nothing crazy but for someone that doesn't work his legs with weights I'm pretty happy with that.

When it comes to legs I only train calves. Unless you wear short-shorts like the 70s, nobody will ever see your upper legs in public - not even on the beach. Unless you are trying to be a professional body-builder (or your upper legs are freakishly small) upper leg training isn't worth how grueling it is imo.

First strong glutes, and fixing posture.

We're all gonna make it brahs

I don't skip leg day. Leg day is skipping me.

I never skip legs, I'm gaining mass throught my body equally, so even if planches and pullups are harder, I'll ultimately be stronger because of my weight to strength ratio, and, why would you skip legs anyways, they're the base of your body, they should be strong and resilient

I don't have any goals for my leggs beside flexibility, beeing able to jump high, run fast and endurance. I do sprints, strenghening flexibility work, jumping exercices and i go running. Thats al i need my leggs for. No need for super massive gym leggs (which actualy also reduce the relativ strengh of your leggs)

This is the reasonable point of view I was looking for so long. If I find something horrid to see, it is a guy with disproportional legs that is proud on his huge hips. So so often, it just does not look aesthetic at all. Recently I started lifting again and am also thinking about whether I should train them, as my legs are naturally already strong to the point of having a much stronger lower body than upper body. The internet would tell me to 'not skip leg day', but why should I not?

Is too much weight (in squats or deadlifts) a myth? How do you know, the weight doesn‘t compromise joint health or longevity?

Its all about Balance Fellow Humans, upper and lower body! So do them leg workouts!!

honest question, i have a bulging disc l5-s1, cannot dead lift or squat with weight, are air squats, lunges and hamstring bridges with volume optimal for stronger legs?

When one bullys, there's three bullies pointing at them

Perfect timing I was looking the whole day today for a leg routine to grow my chicken legs and I was scared cause I got weak, stiff and small legs and don't want injury. before I start on compounds I want routine to make my legs stronger improve my joint flexibility, mobility and stability also I want to strengthen mind muscular connection. Any idea were to start there is too much information overload and im paralysed by analysis

SSuper noticeable in thiSs intro for sSome reaSson.

Schedule for knock knee correction??😢

I dedicate 1-2 days a week to legs. i really don't want big legs, i want strong legs. Also, just like I train skills stuff for calisthenics, I train legs for being able to jump, my leg workouts are based around being able to jump higher lol.

I don't like training legs cause I am stiff and thus can't move proper. 😂 But since starting kickboxing I've scaled back my goals and working on that lack of mobility. Don't need huge legs for martial arts. As long as they aren't twigs I am fine 😊 But they do need to be good in size in relation to my upper body 😅

What’s the exercise called in 07:35 ? Motion looks like air jump squats but weighted? It’s not hack squat, looks like a quad-targeted exercise

Man your voice is ASMR...

Weighted bulgarian split squats are so damn hard! RDL feels easy compared to that demon!

I love training legs. Some people look at me like I am crazy when I say this but its true. I just love to go heavy, break prs and grow stubborn muscle groups of mine. I still love to train upper body and calisthenics. But calisthenics has ended up being a side thought for me. No offend to anybody btw this is just my opinion.

NEVER‼️ #nextquestion

If you want weak legs and back pain, sure, skip leg day. Might as well skip brain day to lessen fatigue.

I used to hate leg day now I loc them

If you're not professionally climbing, you should work on legs 👐🏼

Little Audio problem in this video. Otherwise quality information and video as always 🔥

Anyone else ever tear or sprain an LCL?

It's a shame that you don't have the ability to put automatically translated subtitles for the general public who don't necessarily understand all of English.

Never skip leg day

There's too much worrying-about-what-other-people-think in this video's audio monologue. However, the regressions sprinkled throughout the visual are worth the ten-minute time investment. Good one, Daniel.

Not ok

Finally,what's up?

Thank you for this. The internet always has to be black or white on every single issue its tiring and obnoxious

Legs take so much from recovery...

Tldr; no

who's else is watching while skipping leg day

Would cycling be a good way to do leg day?

Every day is leg day when you set the resistance high on the elliptical.

Jesus christ, the bots in here

Your supposed to train legs!

Dude I don’t do legs because I don’t want to buy new suits just yet.

Too much leg exercises will cause muscle build up. Who wants that. As a human, we just want to crouch like a normal human does. That's all.

I caved to peer pressure and trained squats for years despite having discomfort and hating it, now I have two torn labrums and a torn meniscus so I can barely train legs even if I want to 😂

But seriously don't skip feet day

Dan, is there anything right now that makes you feel insecure or you wish you could do better? You're flexible, lean, strong, skillful, charismatic lol

I smash pistols ... sprints, high jump and cycling

What’s leg day?

And FYI, you should enable Captions so we can read instead of trying to understand you. Thks

i hate weight lifting because of the awkward and mostly caricature shape it gives the body. i don't know what people see in such unusual and unnatural looking muscles. push ups and body lifting techniques are much better to give the body proper shape and naturally looking bigger muscles. and it is certainly healthier for the heart.

No one wants to be Johnny Bravo...

look at joe biden, when deciding to skip leg day or not.

Platz is god U can tweak his training his style as a natty

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Don’t forget… healthy looks different on every body.

There is no point in training legs. Nobody looks at a man's legs. Most of the time one wears pants. And with certain clothes, muscular legs look very bad. And developed legs make the upper part of the body look smaller.

Never. Why leave half of your body weak? So you can perform some stupid tricks easier?

"Never skip leg day" - is body shaming. Those who skip leg days never will go to any fitness contest anyway. We are talking advance athletes or just regular folks in the gym?

You are talking to calisthenics "athletes". They aren't skipping leg day. They don't have a leg day.

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