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Whenever you
see body builders cramping up from fatigue in a contest, it is usually
the leg muscles that go first. Leg muscles are huge, strong muscles and
it takes a lot of practice to develop the kind of endurance needed to
pose the legs for hour after hour.
Hard posing
practice ,flexing and stretching the legs constantly during your workout
help create maximum muscle separation and the cross striations that
modern bodybuilders are now achieving. However, the more you contract
these large muscles, the more they tend to shorten up, so it is equally
important to lengthen them again with stretching movements. Virtually
all the top champions use a lot of stretching in order to develop their
fantastic legs. Arnold Schwarzenegger would spend 15 minutes stretching
before doing a leg workout, and then stretch again after he finished.
But you can
also stretch during a workout by including the right exercises - for
example, doing Straight-Leg Deadlifts or Good Mornings to stretch the
leg biceps right after you do your Leg Curls, being sure to go all the
way down when doing Squats and Hack Squats, and bringing your knees all
the way to your chest when doing Leg Presses.
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