I’ve been going to the gym for a few months, still feel like a noob tho.

I track what exercises I do, weight & reps, etc, and try to rotate between the different exercises I enjoy.

However I don’t do leg-centric days or anything like that, I just try and do a variety each week and not go too long without exercising specific areas. Is that bad?

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    1 year ago

    It’s definitely not required but people tend to dedicate a whole workout to the larger muscle groups for the sake of structure and focus.

    Your legs have many large muscles so they require a lot of work and a variety of excersise. Combining these excises into a single workout helps ensure you target all of those muscles.

    It also allows you to do compound excersise like squats followed up immediately by targeted excersise of individual muscles which I personally think is more efficient than doing them on different days.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Leg days are by far my longest workout for the week. It just takes so much time, especially if you’re working a single leg at a time.

      Also, you get a whole week for the muscle group to repair itself.