Most body builders concentrate more to buildup their upper body, but building up your lower body is also considered being essential. Leg muscle is most important to support your upper body; it can also be said as the basement of your whole body.

So building up both the upper body and legs are essential factors that has to be considered when you are doing body building workouts.

There are several workouts to buildup your leg muscles. The 3 main muscles in your legs are quadriceps, hamstrings and calves. Exercise like squats are great for building strong and powerful legs.

Placing a weight on a barbell and squatting down with the weight rested on your neck. This is the best technique for you to increase your leg muscle strength.

There are some other exercises for your quadriceps like leg press, leg extensions, dumbbell lunges and dumbbell squat.

The second thing is hamstrings; here also you can find three main methods. Firstly, you can workout with the leg curl machine by lying leg curls your face down on a leg curl machine and lift weight up.

The other two workouts are stiff legged dead lifts and dumbbell stiff legged dead lifts.

The last and third leg muscle group is calves which should also be included with your body building workouts. You can buildup your calves muscle by doing various workouts, that will give you the leaping abilities.

The well known workout for calves are standing calf raises, seated calf raises, leg press calf extensions and standing one legged calf raises. The simple and easiest workout is by standing on your toes and raising yourself with the help of calves muscle.

By applying these exercises in your regular workout will help you build strong legs. You can work your quadriceps into your bicep, triceps and shoulder workout day and place your calves and hamstrings with your back and chest workout day.

These are all the best exercises to build strong legs that have to be considered with your body building workouts.