Home Leg Workout Weapon (KILLER LEG EXERCISE!) – ATHLEAN-X™

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Doing leg workouts at home can sometimes be difficult if you don’t have heavy enough weights to overload your legs. Most decide to just do bodyweight leg exercises or run to train their legs in these cases. In this video, I show you that is a mistake by giving you a home leg workout weapon that can become the perfect leg exercise for you.

The advantages of this leg exercise are that you can perform them either one or two legs at a time. When you do this as a single leg exercise, you have the ability to overload your quads, glutes and hamstrings with less weight. All you need is an Olympic bar and a corner of the room that you can anchor one end of the bar in.

Essentially, this home leg exercise is a modified version of the hack squat. We know that the hack squat machine at the gym allows you to target your quads a bit more without having to worry about lower back pain often times associated with squatting. The problem with this legs exercise however is that you tend to eliminate the contribution of the glute muscles and therefore make the exercise less effective.

In the home leg exercise shown here, that is not the case. You can get a strong contraction of the gluteus by virtue of the position of the muscles at the top of the movement.

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45 comments

manuel garcia May 15, 2018 - 1:39 am

Great tip I've been looking for this! Thanks a lot. So what do you do for a leg press if you dont have a leg press machine?

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Arjun M Rao June 1, 2018 - 9:21 pm

SHOW SOME COMPASSION GUYS ON THE CAMERAMAN & CAMERA WORK. I know it could have been better, but the guy handling the camera is just a normal individual like all of us. He is not a professionally qualified or trained CINEMATOGRAPHER. Of course the guy in front of the camera jeff is an expert in his craft. I am a little disappointed with Jeff because, once he knew after seeing that this particular video was not good in terms of the things in focus onscreen, then probably he should & could have done it – redone it once more. ANYWAYS, THE BIGGEST ROOM ON THIS PLANET, IS THE ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT !👍

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Marc Ramirez June 2, 2018 - 10:57 pm

for real! i should be using those for my legs workouts

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Antee Antee June 6, 2018 - 9:17 pm

this exercise is awsome
i work out at home and dont have many options for working out legs since i dont have a squat rack
i usually do belt squats (slighty elevated) in a german volume training style (10 sets of 10) since iam limited with the amount of weight i can put on the belt
but this exercise looks like a good alternative to the belt squats

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striker July 7, 2018 - 6:28 am

The one leg will super activate and super pump your glutes. Have not tried this, but Jeff demonstrates it very well.

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Maria Juana Sativa July 18, 2018 - 11:58 pm

……but I don't have a corner in my room.

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Lola Velmar August 9, 2018 - 4:17 am

Camera man sucks!

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marrige101 September 23, 2018 - 7:04 pm

Shitty video Jeff! Can't even see ur legs especially in one legged

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ryangriff12 October 9, 2018 - 5:17 pm

Jeff all the rooms in my house are cylinders. I don't have a squat rack. Do I still have to hit legs?

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Bilbo Waggins October 29, 2018 - 4:49 am

Landmines are my favorite. Anytime my sciatica Flair's up, i switch to landmine leg exercises and all is good

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Marcelo Santos December 2, 2018 - 1:58 pm

What a great tip!!! Thank you so much for sharing it!!! I am gonna try right now!

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vinohn January 10, 2019 - 10:35 pm

Almost 300k views

Viewers prefer no leg days it seems

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Paula Almeida Rea Stephens January 28, 2019 - 6:15 pm

Is there a landmine apparatus I could buy ? Bc it takes a long bar to do this and I don’t have that –

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Dwayne Anthony February 12, 2019 - 1:46 pm

Thanks Jeff (& Jessy) you've done more for my body than you know.
Cheer's.

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Burma Valley March 17, 2019 - 3:58 am

I could squat 4 plates with this technique but how am I supposed to load the bar on my shoulder first?

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Ron VOX April 8, 2019 - 12:58 pm

Yet again this man wins
thank you jeff

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Garvin Chinnia April 20, 2019 - 3:17 pm

Katie Ripley: "I don't like this as much because he has his shirt on."

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M B May 1, 2019 - 12:02 am

just now seeing this video, good alternative leg exercise👍👍

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Rob Nightingale May 3, 2019 - 9:04 am

I wanted to see feet distance angle of feet pointed out or straight good training idea but needs bit more info mate

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Mike Dan June 29, 2019 - 4:06 pm

Cameraman/Jesse? Please zoom out so we can see the leg movement from start to finish of the excercise!!

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gsg9ff August 7, 2019 - 2:44 am

will try this with landmine.

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Adi Huss September 17, 2019 - 8:40 pm

Will this work with heavy weights? Placing around 4×45 lbs plates?

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f s November 9, 2019 - 10:11 am

What about if you turn facing the barbell. Seems like a much more natural alternative to the back squat

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George Phillips March 24, 2020 - 9:30 pm

Corona?

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John Blythe April 7, 2020 - 2:24 pm

before jeff found his pants and lost his shirt

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Ramon Kalaw April 21, 2020 - 5:08 pm

Fire the camera dude ASAP.

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Al G April 30, 2020 - 5:12 pm

I cannot survive without ATHLEAN X

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Nestor de Ogueta May 20, 2020 - 12:24 am

But who has an Olympic bar at home and no rack?

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Pawan Laishram May 29, 2020 - 10:00 am

I have only a bar and some plates no rack…i clean it up to my shoulders and do front squats….thats ok right?

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Weird World's Business June 4, 2020 - 11:11 am

anyone watching this in 2020:(

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Shrinidhi Dharao July 13, 2020 - 3:34 pm

Please make more like this

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amit roy July 25, 2020 - 2:44 pm

just excellent..got an great idea for home leg workout during this lock down

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Simon /. House account July 28, 2020 - 11:34 pm

Squats no good for me yet ..with my head injures..makes me unbalanced and very dizzy so I go old school again //landmines they always work well for me

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the pandevilears September 22, 2020 - 11:58 am

Is there angel di mario on the poster behind him

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Isaac Taylor October 20, 2020 - 6:38 pm

Could we do this facing the bar ??

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Mariella16 October 27, 2020 - 4:47 pm

💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

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Keegan Maroney November 1, 2020 - 9:22 pm

Thankyou, regular squats activate my shoulders and trapezius too much, this might solve thay

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Young Suit November 21, 2020 - 1:46 am

I just got a barbell in my home. Pumped to have found this

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Doris May 14, 2021 - 12:43 pm

Question: I have a regular barbell, not an Olympic bar. Can I do similar exercises witha regular barbell?

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Abu Samra May 15, 2021 - 7:51 pm

who’s watching this in 2021

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Sebastian Kardum June 29, 2021 - 9:31 am

that is really bad camera action

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Slyde Davis August 15, 2021 - 8:51 am

Great as always Jeff but who the heck was working the camera back then?

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jox September 7, 2021 - 2:42 am

Very bad camera. didn't get the right position

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Mamawia Lianhna October 15, 2021 - 6:21 pm

Believe me the camera man is gonna be ripppppedddd

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TINDARO LEONE November 11, 2021 - 11:39 pm

Fantastic Exellent Workout the best👏😀

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