Leg Training Equipment

For women to perform resistance training for legs can be either fun as part of her fitness workout or more so of Ya Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do attitude.

In this article I will provide you an effective leg firming exercise and then I will suggest you some leg training equipment as an option

The Walking-lunges

For this particular exercise you are working the primary upper leg muscles wich are known the quadriceps, hamstrings, and last but not least the inner thigh muscles as secondary and stabilizer group of muscles. 

In this exercise you are literally involving all of your leg muscles to work together where each muscle is doing its job as it should be.

Here are the steps of how to perform the walking lunges exercise.

Instructions:

- Stand with both feet pointing straight forward and hands hanging freely to your sides

- take one forward stride or lung with your lift leg and bend your knee about 90 degree at the same time your right side knee should brush (or almost) off the floor

- Push of with both legs to take the next stride where the right side leg will be at front

-Keep alternating until you complete somewhere between 10 to 20 walking-lunges for each side

General rules to consider during the exercise performance:

1- Control the pace of descending your back knee where you don’t just let it drop fast

2- Your front knee should not travel beyond your toes so you don’t put too much strain on your  ligaments and tendons

Your Leg Training Equipment Option

As I mentioned earlier that not everyone wants to perform the walking-lunges as the only choice to exercise their legs so here is a choice that is affordable and very effective leg training equipment to use it at home or outdoors.

The below exercise provides similar movement when it is compared to the lunge exercise and specifically using the front leg where it will be performing “primary lifting” so to speak.

Plyometric Exercise Equipment

The plyometric boxs (aka: plyo box) are steady, stable, and durable so they can last you for many years to come with minimal maintenance. There are various ways to take advantage of  basic and wonderful fitness tool in terms of training your lower and upper body but the focus here is training your legs.

How to Use the Plyometric Boxes

It is simple. You can do step-ups with its different forms and as your fitness level grows you can perform the plyometric jumps or sometimes called the explosive jumps.

Instructions:

-Stand facing the the plyo box and hands around your waist line, hanging in free style, or behind your head (the latter is harder since requires more balance from your leg and core muscles)

-Step up on the plyo box with the left leg and stand still with both feet for about a second then step down with the left leg again on the floor

-You can alternate between the two legs or you can do 12 repetitions then switch legs.

Should you buy one plyo box or one plyometric box set which comes with two or more of different heights. That depends on what you can afford and if you need to be challenged as your fitness level progresses and would like higher boxes to exercise on.