in upper body daya I can leave the gym basically dry. leg day though I’m drenched

both days I push to or close to failure

roughly same amount of time

is it just because legs haveuch more muscle mass?

  • Sundial@lemm.ee
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    Leg’s are half your body (more or less). On top of that some exercises involve your back and core muscles, like squats. So you’re actually engaging a good chunk of muscles when working out legs.

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    It’s because fingers are really good. Legs don’t have fingers, it’s basically the only difference if you think about it. Fingers make everything better. Find someone with really long toes and ask how their leg day goes, see if I’m wrong

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    I’m not an expert, but I’d say it’s because your legs are basically half your body. Not only that but most leg exercises require the use of other muscles. Like, if you’re squatting with weights you are using pretty much every major muscle group in your body.

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      I’ll add to this that legs and feet make for surprisingly good heat dumps when blood is pumping, so if you’re using them to generate the heat, the rest of the body has to do the radiating instead.