Today’s Workout 91: The 3-move circuit to light up your leg muscles

When it comes to firing up your legs, you can’t hold anything back—and this circuit doesn’t leave anything out.

Burn up your quads, hamstrings, and glutes with back-to-back rounds of barbell hack deadlifts and reverse lunges—these are the big-gun exercises that’ll take your legs from scrawny to substantial. A finishing round of alternating shoulder taps provides a solid finisher for your core, and will also work your glutes, as well.

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 5 to 10 rounds.

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

For more legs work:

Check out our favorite chicken-leg elimination workout, our 10 exercises that work your legs to exhaustion, and our 10 workouts to do on legs day.

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