She’s Got Legs
November 10, 2009 by Joe Gigantino
…and she knows how to use them! Today’s lower body leg workout will be bit longer than usual but can be scaled down if you are a beginner or intermediate level. 
Want sexy long looking legs? In this leg workout, we will tone and strengthen all the muscles in the leg by the leg exercises plus keep your heart rate up in fat burning mode by running and then lengthen the muscles by a thorough lower body stretch.
Don’t worry guys, you can do this workout too for your body weight workout day.
Warm up: jog 400 meters (or 1 lap around track) 2 one minute planks
Workout Routine:
- 50 air squats
- Run 1 mile
- 50 jumping lunges
- Run 1 mile
- 50 jumping squats
- Run 1 mile
- 50 lunges
- Run 1 mile
- You will complete a total of 20 reps and 4 miles. Don’t give up! Post your time 
Advanced = double the leg reps to 100
Beginner = decrease the reps to 30 and decrease the runs to .5 mile
- make sure you take about 20 minutes to stretch your legs; hamstrings, quads, inner thighs and calves for flexibilty.
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