chicken legs
Published: Fri, 06/03/16
This is good.
But it also only trains a single plane of movement and a single angle of your 4-part muscle (hence, “quads”).
… Which also won’t get you thunder thighs, or the thick, strong, athletic-looking legs that make up the “X” shape which is the ideal for men.
As a side note, researchers have studies whether there is an ideal shape, and there is, Da Vinci used its proportions when he did sculptures, Michelangelo used it when he painted.
We’ve known about it for years, and we know it instinctively when we see it.
Women tend to flock to men who have it, and men are threatened by other men who have it.
What most people don’t know is that it’s actually attainable – but not if your program is focusing on ‘balance’.
Back to the quads…
Take a look at what your quad muscles look like:
Again, notice the “4 parts” to the muscle.
Now, by only using a single foot position when you do things like squat or leg press, you’re only going to work one angle of the muscle.
That’s not what we want. This X shape is a real thing. It’s laughable when a guy has a big upper body but a scrawny lower body, but it’s also weird when he has big shoulders but no arms or a big back but a tiny chest.
So to fill out your quads and to make them look and perform more athletically, try this…
-Focus on the inner quad by pointing your toes out one day.
-Focus on the outer quad by pointing your toes in (or by doing side-squats).
-And focus on the meat of your quad, the middle, by having your toes pointing
forward when performing presses, like squats or leg press, or curls like leg curls.
By changing your foot placement you change the muscle within the quads that you work.
This isn’t just true for quads, but for every muscle in your body.
Click here to see how to build perfect muscle for every muscle
There’s a great example where I use the triceps to show you all the intricacies of a muscle and how to fully develop each of them.
Here’s the reality that few know: If you’re training every body part you’re not going to hit each body part well enough, and you’re not going to build quality muscle.
If your goal is to ‘be like everyone else’, then keep at it.
But if you want more, if you want to stop wasting time in the gym, to get better results, faster, try this radical approach to training that helps you focus on the one thing you need to do to build your ideal.
Keep training hard,
Mike Westerdal
CriticalBench.com
P.S. I say “ideal”, and I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but think of it as a goal that’s not actually ‘attainable’.
Well it is.
But if you’ve been training for a couple years now and you’re not getting close, you need to try something different to get different results.