How to exercise thigh muscles

Exercise is an activity that people pay more attention to. People can feel the vitality of life and improve their body endurance and strength during exercise. Therefore, people often participate in some sports in life to achieve the purpose of physical exercise. Among them, exercising thigh muscles is the most basic goal. This is something that looks simple but is difficult to do. So, how can you exercise thigh muscles?

Thigh muscle exercises:

1. Weighted squat

Initial position: Place the barbell on the shoulders behind your neck, hold the barbell with both hands, stand upright, and keep your feet shoulder-width apart or slightly wider than shoulder-width apart.

Short range of motion: bend your legs and squat to the lowest position, then stand up until your whole body is straight, and repeat.

Action effect: This action has a very strong stimulating effect on the quadriceps, gluteus maximus, waist and back muscles, etc.

Key points of the movement: When carrying the barbell on the shoulders behind the neck, pay attention to the left and right balance, and do not press on the neck protrusion behind the neck. The body should keep the chest up, the waist bent, and the hips raised. Do not squat too hard to avoid injuring the knee joints. When standing up, do not raise the hips first and then the upper body, but use the head to push the whole body up.

2. Single-leg squat

Initial posture: (Take the left leg as an example) Stand on the left leg, extend the right leg forward, and place your hands on a fixed object.

Action process: Slowly bend the standing leg and squat to the lowest point, keep the right leg extended forward without touching the ground, then straighten the left leg with force, return to the initial movement, and repeat.

Action effect: This action can fully stimulate the anterior and lateral parts of the quadriceps femoris and gluteus maximus.

Action points: Move evenly and do not squat suddenly to avoid damaging the knee joint. The upper limbs only serve to balance the body. Try not to use the strength of your upper limbs to pull up your body.

Exercise requires skills. People must learn some exercise skills in life so that they can be flexible and perform some movements during exercise, and at the same time increase the effect of exercise. I hope that people who like exercise can read the above content on how to exercise thigh muscles and learn some useful skills.