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Today’s Workout 84: 4 moves to step up your legs day routine

This punishing circuit will work your quads, glutes, and hamstrings to exhaustion—and even your abs as a bonus.

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Man Does Rear-Leg Elevated Split Squat During Lower-Body Workout

It’s time to raise your game in the legs department. The best place to start? This intense, four-move circuit that’ll pound your lower body (and even your core) into rock-solid, defined muscle.

For this workout, you’ll do back-to-back-to-back rounds of dumbbell overhead lunges, Bulgarian split squats, and stepups. From there, a set of abs-burning situps will ignite new muscular development in your quads, glutes, hamstrings, and calves. And by the end of this circuit, you’re probably going to need to take a few minutes off your feet.

Directions

You’ll do this workout as a circuit, meaning you’ll complete each exercise consecutively without rest. Once you’ve finished all exercises, rest for 30 to 60 seconds. Repeat the entire circuit for 4 to 6 rounds.

Depending upon your ability, you may shorten or lengthen the rest period. You may also complete more or fewer rounds.

For more legs and abs work:

Check out our favorite legs and abs workout for training partners, our 20-minute workout routine to get hard ‘core’ abs, and our 30 best legs exercises of all time.

For a complete archive of our daily quick-hit routines, go to mensfitness.com/todaysworkout.

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Today's Workout 84

4 moves to step up your legs day routine (do 4-6 rounds)

Exercise
Equipment
Sets
Reps
Rest
Exercise 1 of 4

Overhead Lunge

Equipment
Barbell
Sets
--
Reps
10
Rest
0 sec.
Use a pair of dumbbells, as shown in the video.
Exercise 2 of 4

Bulgarian Split Squat

Equipment
Dumbbells
Sets
--
Reps
10
Rest
0 sec.
Exercise 3 of 4

Stepup

Equipment
Dumbbells
Sets
--
Reps
10
Rest
0 sec.
Exercise 4 of 4

Situp

Equipment
No Equipment
Sets
--
Reps
10
Rest
30-60 sec.
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