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Does Training Legs Actually Boost Testosterone?

Why you should never skip leg day

Leg training is very unpopular with most people. I can understand why. I’ve had severe muscle pain a few times after, making walking up and down stairs a torture.

Not only does it look stupid to have an extremely wide torso and very thin legs, there are also other good reasons to train your legs.

Testosterone Response To Exercise

I often heard that leg training in particular increases testosterone levels. To understand why this is the case, we first need to understand how exercise, in general, affects testosterone release and what factors influence how much testosterone is released.

First of all, it is important to note that almost any type of training increases testosterone release. Not only leg training. Especially resistance training is effective to increase the male sex hormone. Why should leg training, in particular, be so effective in increasing testosterone?

The amount of testosterone released during and after training depends primarily on two factors: training intensity and the volume of muscle mass activated.

“Absolute workload (volume and intensity) of the session is also thought to be linked with the testosterone response”

“Therefore, the response will also depend on the intensity and volume of the session, in addition to the volume of muscle engaged in the session.”

This is how Dr. Amy Tanner is quoted in this article. She is a lecturer in exercise physiology at the UK’s University of Hertfordshire, specializing in hormonal response to exercise.

This explains why leg training is so good for testosterone release. The main reason for this is the large volume of the thigh muscles and the glutes, which are usually also loaded during leg training.

Leg training, therefore, leads to a very large volume of muscle mass being activated, which supports the release of testosterone.

Leg Training Can Make Your Biceps Grow.

Yes, you read correctly. What sounds absurd at first glance makes perfect sense at second glance. A study conducted in Norway showed that men who trained their legs and then their biceps achieved a significantly greater increase in strength and volume of the biceps muscles than men who trained only their biceps. This can be explained by the increased hormonal response to the training as a result of the leg training.

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