3. Your Weaknesses Can Become Your Most Powerful Tools!
Here’s one phrase we’re sure you’ve heard before: “you’re only as strong as your weakest link”. Now, we know lots of popular mottos that are in fact totally stupid and/or useless, but this one is as true as they get. First of all, people’s attention will always be drawn to the weakest link – we all love finding the hidden (or not so hidden) imperfections and pointing out the flaws in others (and this is especially true for the ladies). And more importantly, since your muscles have to work together as a chain to help you lift heavy stuff, your overall strength and endurance can suffer greatly from you being too much of a lazy a*s to address and overcome your weakest points.
4. Hormonal Heaven
If you train your legs with compound movements, as we strongly recommend you do, you’ll be in a position to reap one more incredible benefit from it: spiked testosterone and growth hormone levels. And as you’re very well aware – low testosterone = poor muscle growth.
For example, since the squat trains so many large muscle groups at once, your body naturally responds by increasing testosterone production and allowing you to make splendid gains even from gym sessions that otherwise wouldn’t count as anything spectacular. And if you train hard and heavy, this testosterone boost will lead you right on the road to sculpting an awe-inspiring, Greek-god physique. Oh, and by the way, the peaking testosterone levels will help you add more upper body mass, faster than you could have dreamed, too.
Also…
The fact that you can’t afford to skip leg day doesn’t mean that you have to slave for hours at the gym every other day, following overly complex and high-tech programs to get the results you want. Really, that’s one of the stupidest things people do that actually makes them hate leg training even more. Focus on the basic movements such as squats (utilize as many variants as possible!), lunges, leg curls and calf raises.
Just remember: the best bodybuilders around aren’t the ones who will do just any workout or avoid exercises they deem ‘too hard’ or pick just any weight they see lying around – on the contrary, those are the men and women who select the best exercises for mass building, choose their load based on what optimally builds size in their own experience as well as the experience of those who came before them, and they are not afraid of hard work and real pain. You can have the world’s greatest workout program, but if you don’t take your training seriously, you’ll only end up wasting your time and getting weak results.
