Muscles In Upper Leg

upper leg inflammation, burning pain! sudden lower chest pain! HELP!! What is that?

I am 18. I have been having really weird sensations lately in my body. While I doing some light powerwalking excercise outside or even sitting or walking indoors, I feel like my body or muscles are so tight and not loose even though I excercise about 4 hours a week! I am slightly underweight so I only do light excercise. When I was walking outside a few days ago, I had the worst sharp pain on my left lower side of my chest! I was so scared to death as I didn't know what that was- it would come and last for 2 minutes then just disappear. I wake up everyday and feel that my muscles in my leg are so tight and stiff and not loose as I am used to. Now I have a really bad burning sensation in my upper and a little of the lower leg which seems to be sourcing from my knee. - this is only in my right leg! It really hurts! I don't think this is PMS because I finished my menses just a week ago. Is this serious???!!! or something minor?

speak to your Dr ASAP

3 Muscles in Your Legs to Consider With Your Body Building Workout

When putting together a body building workout, it is vital you workout your legs and upper body. There are three main muscles you want to focus on with your legs; your quadriceps, hamstrings and calves. By working out these muscles, you will build strong and durable legs.

Luckily, many leg exercises will workout each of the three muscles. Squats are great for building strong and powerful legs. It involves you placing weight on a barbell and squatting down with the weight rested on your neck. It is important you perform this with good technique. Other exercises for your quadriceps include leg press, leg extensions, dumbbell lunges and dumbbell squats.

Moving along to your hamstrings, there are three great body building workouts you can do. The first is lying leg curls in which you lye face down on a leg curl machine and lift up. The other two exercises are stiff legged dead lifts and dumbbell stiff legged dead lifts.

The last of the muscles to include with your body building workout is your calves. There are several exercises you can do to build up your calves giving you muscle for leaping abilities. The most common exercises include standing calf raises, seated calf raises, leg press calf extensions, and standing one legged calf raises. All calf raises consist of you simply standing on your toes and raising yourself using your calf muscles.

Putting together a quality body building workout for your legs is essential. You want to have strong, powerful legs to support your upper-body.  Unfortunately, far too many bodybuilders focus solely on their upper-body. 

Take these exercises and apply them to your workout regimen to build strong legs. You can work your quadriceps into your bicep, tricep and shoulder workout day and place your calves and hamstrings with your back and chest workout day. This makes for a perfect workout schedule.

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