Build Bigger Legs With Dumbbells

Whether you’re at home, travelling for work, on holiday or just don’t have access to the equipment you need, it’s important to know other workouts involving minimal equipment that you are able to do anywhere. A solid lower-body dumbbell workout that really works the muscles hard is always worth knowing.

This workout shows you how to really work your quads, glutes, and hamstrings in three fundamental moves. You'll be able to make strength and size gains with this workout when following correctly and pushing yourself to your limits and for a workout plan you can do just about anywhere, that’s pretty useful.

DUMBBELL GOBLET SQUATS

First, you’ll be doing 10 dumbbell goblet squats. Focus on keeping an upright torso and your weight evenly distributed through your heels and balls of your feet. Don’t let your heels raise from the floor. If they start to lift off, shift your weight and consider not lowering quite as far into each rep.

DUMBBELL DEADLIFTS

Next, you’ll perform 10 reps of dumbbell deadlifts. Make sure that you move slowly and controlled at all times. Focus on keeping your back straight and descend until your torso is parallel to the ground or your back begins to round, whichever comes first.

BOTTOM-LOADED SQUATS

For the last exercise, bottom-loaded squats, you’ll complete 20 reps. Hold the weight with the fingers of both hands clasped around the handle and squeeze as hard as you can. In this exercise, you won’t rise all of the way to lockout with each rep. This is to increase your legs’ amount of time under tension.

To recap, you will need to do 10 reps of the first two exercises, 20 reps of the last exercise with 1 minute rest between exercises. You will do a total of 5 rounds.