Believe me…if you’re right side is a whole heckuva lot weaker than your left, you’ll know it with single leg training and you might be able to hide it with two legged exercises. The second advantage of single leg training is the ability to recruit more glute involvement into the exercise and to isolate weaknesses right side vs left. Since single leg training can up the ante much quicker than double leg…we don’t have to subject our spines to the excessive weights that are needed to be borne across the shoulders from a heavy back squat. The point is, the legs only know what the stress FEELS like and not really what the stress IS!Īs long as it FEELS like a challenging task…it is. In fact, take the strongest buddy you know and ask him to do a single leg squat holding just 45 lb dumbbells at his side and I guarantee you he struggles.
No more 300 pound back squats necessary to spark leg growth. The first is that by doing so, you immediately are able to decrease the load that’s necessary to challenge the legs. That is a BIG mistake!Īs I’ve spoken about many times before, there is no better way to train your legs than with single leg training….for two reasons really. The reality is…due to the high demands of this exercise (and everything I just mentioned that’s needed to pull it off) most people just skip this and move onto other leg options in their quest for bigger legs.
This one legged exercise requires a combination of balance, enormous glute strength and the ability to reverse momentum at the drop of a hat and go from a controlled descent into an explosive ascent!
One of the hardest exercises you can do for your lower body is the pistol squat.