Road To a Better Physique: How to Build Stronger/Larger Legs With Sports

 

 Road To a Better Physique: How to Build

 Stronger/Larger Legs With Sports

The fifth entry on how to gain stronger and larger legs will be about sports. This method is fairly similar to the last entry, as cardio, agility, and speed is used to target our muscles in today's blog. How this is different from resistance training is simply because of the use of all our muscle groups, which we could target in order to not only work out our legs, but to also cut off stubborn fat in areas we would like them to be gone from. Examples of this would be our belly fat, excess fat around our legs, and overall weight loss. On top of this, weight loss around the legs can help reveal our leg muscles resulting in a beefier look. 

Endurance Training - Sports

Starting off with basketball, we can achieve a great cardio and leg workout by finding pickup games at recreational centers, or by simply playing on a basketball hoop of our own. How basketball helps us with our goal for a better physique is that basketball requires a lot of cardio. However, there is a mix of constant jumping and agility-based movements that we are forced to execute. This includes jumping for rebounds, constant defense against ballhandler, and constantly running back and fourth.  This is a great form of cardiovascular exercise, alongside a great source of leg training.

Next off, we can also choose to play Volleyball. This sport requires a great deal of agility, as the ball comes towards you at a very fast speed. That being said, this sport requires us to use our legs to quickly maneuver around the court, whilst being in control of our body. This sport also requires a great deal of jumping. Within the sport, you must be able to receive, dive, spike and block. This is similar to the sport of basketball, however the focus of cardio is not as demanding as it is for basketball itself. Therefore, this is also another great form of exercise.

One last sport that we could use to help work out our legs and to help with our cardio can be Long Jump. This sport requires good speed from a short sprint, alongside a great vertical jump. How this helps us work out the key muscles in our legs is that sprinting can help strengthen our entire legs just like how volleyball and basketball help work them out. However, when it comes to the jumping part of long jump, this requires a great deal of upper body motor functions, alongside the flow of our legs. This could help us work out our core, which also contributes to a steady gain towards a better physique.

Bellow is a summarization of the expected exertion of each muscle group during the activity of each sport. 

Sports

Basketball

• Works out Quads, Hamstrings, Glutes, Groin, Hip Flexors, Calves, and some of the upper body.
• This sport requires a great deal of cardio in order to be played.
• Helps greatly with overall weight loss
• Make sure to warm up before hand as this sport requires sudden exertion of muscles

Volleyball

• Mainly works out Quads, Hamstrings, Glutes, Groin, Hip Flexors, Calves, and some of the upper body.
• This sport requires a moderate deal of cardio in order to be played. 
• Helps moderately with overall weight loss
• Make sure to warm up before hand as this sport requires sudden exertion of muscles

Long Jump

• Heavily works out Quads, Hamstrings, Glutes, Groin, Hip Flexors, Calves, and some of the upper body.
• This sport requires some cardio in order to be played. 
• Somewhat helps with overall weight loss
• Make sure to warm up before hand as this sport requires sudden exertion of muscles

Doing these workouts with the required supervision and discipline may bring fourth expected results. Be sure to take precaution as working out sore muscles is not a good way to get stronger. Instead, it causes harm to your body.