Is training legs really necessary?

[yeahbuddy289]

Before you shoot me... I do train legs once a week but if your legs are nautually big is there any point in training them? I already have a hard enough time finding jeans that fit. My issue is my calfs. So I figure as a bodybuilder and not a power lifter it would be more fitting to focus more on my calfs than my legs which are already big. Any thoughts on this?

[ppwc1985]

IMO if you don't train legs your whole body will shrink. Try training just to keep your size in your legs maintained and not growing.

[oatmeal69]

That's kind of where I'm at too, my upper body needs to catch up to my thighs. So, I don't go all out when I train them, and I don't employ HIT like I do with upper body. My legs are sore for the next few days, so I know I'm hitting them, and they do continue to grow. I've always subscribed to the traditional belief that you have to train your whole body - especially the big muscles in order to grow. I might be wrong though.

[knuckles69]

The key to growth is all I'm the legs my friend

[CMB]

IMO if you don't train legs your whole body will shrink. Try training just to keep your size in your legs maintained and not growing.

Nope. Your upper body will grow if you train it. Just like your lower body will. Although working your entire body is by far the most efficient way to build the most muscle, just because you don't train your legs doesn't mean your upper body won't make gains.


Anywayz,

OP, don't not train your lower body. This is an amateur mistake. IF IT WERE ME, I would hit legs with less frequency and volume, compared to upper body muscle groups like back and chest... that is if I were disproportional as you have described.

WHATEVER you do --- train your fvcking legs. Don't be "That Guy"

[MickeyKnox]

[kelkel]

Nope. Your upper body will grow if you train it. Just like your lower body will. Although working your entire body is by far the most efficient way to build the most muscle, just because you don't train your legs doesn't mean your upper body won't make gains.


Anywayz,

OP, don't not train your lower body. This is an amateur mistake. IF IT WERE ME, I would hit legs with less frequency and volume, compared to upper body muscle groups like back and chest... that is if I were disproportional as you have described.

WHATEVER you do --- train your fvcking legs. Don't be "That Guy"

Could not have been said better. Outstanding answer! Listen up op!

[JCFobsession]

I hate everyone with big legs naturally. I beat. My legs up and they don't grow like upper body being 6'4 long o legs makes it tuff.

Working legs releases essential acids your body produces to help assist with overall body growth.

[oatmeal69]

LOL, is it just my gym or is EVERY gym where most guys are severely lacking on legs... I work out in an area which seems to have every former inmate in the state living in it, and they're all solely focused on upper body.
Don't get me wrong, there are a few guys who train everything and look like it, but it's amazing to me how many guys with these massive, hulking upper bodies with legs smaller than mine, or who wear really long trunks and socks to cover them...?

[tigerspawn]

one should never neglect legs

[crazy mike]

WHATEVER you do --- train your fvcking legs. Don't be "That Guy"[/QUOTE]

Now that is telling you. This is straight talk ya know!! So do it and cause we said so. ...crazy mike haa

[auswest]

I train legs twice a week, I have an ecto body type and struggle with them, didn't help I neglected them the first couple of years of training. That has kinda caught up with me now, so legs are now a big focus for me. My mother used to call me chicken legs when I was younger before I even started lifting, she said they look like sticks :/ so that is what I was batteling. This is a recent shot, they have improved but still so far from happy.

[JCFobsession]

I train legs twice a week, I have an ecto body type and struggle with them, didn't help I neglected them the first couple of years of training. That has kinda caught up with me now, so legs are now a big focus for me. My mother used to call me chicken legs when I was younger before I even started lifting, she said they look like sticks :/ so that is what I was batteling. This is a recent shot, they have improved but still so far from happy.

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Bro I feel you being and ectomorph is super tuff. My knee cap to pelvic joint is sooooo long compared to my buddy I Work out with that's 5'5 . It's crazy,sucks so bad. We look so goofy next to one another like the movie twins except he is muscular not ike Danny diveto.... I really need to do 2 a Week on legs but it's tuff. And after beating them up that recovery time is really needed. Sometimes it's 4-5 days long.

Don't forget recovery is where the grow mainly comes from

[thehor]

Lucky you. I wish I had naturally big legs because thats what I have been training the hardest. I hit legs 2 times a week hard and sometimes I cant even walk right and on top of that, they are taking a long time to grow

Thats what I get for training upper body for 2 years straight and not working out my lower body.