What are some good ways to build leg strength?!
Question: I am hoping to be a punter (so what if I aim low, I like punting) in high school next year, and right now with no leg excercising besides stretching, I can consistently punt the ball around 35-40 yards. I would like to be able to top this, but I do not have a gym membership and no weights at home. Any leg strength workouts?
Answers: I am hoping to be a punter (so what if I aim low, I like punting) in high school next year, and right now with no leg excercising besides stretching, I can consistently punt the ball around 35-40 yards. I would like to be able to top this, but I do not have a gym membership and no weights at home. Any leg strength workouts?
The best way to increase in a sport is to do repetitive motions of the sport, so just keep punting over and over.
As for leg exercises, punting depends a lot more on form and dexterity than strength, as more often than not, adding muscle slows you down. You can try for very lean muscle but losing fat instead through some kind of aerobic like swimming or if your at home do weightless squats a whole bunch of times.
run or walk on the treadmill a 1 or 2 a day stay hydrated with water and u will see fast results!! trust me i did it and dont regret it at all!!
For just pure strength, you should be focusing on squats (with and/or without free weights weights)
To round it out, you should do cardio, such as running, biking.
There are a few excellent ones, firstly, I suggest you start with 15-20 40-50 yard sprints at full sprint pace with 30-60 seconds break between each one.
This will train your tendons to rebound and flex very quickly and increase the blood flow to your muscles. This is also extrememly good for strength.
The second is called plyometrics. What you can do is take a chair out into your yard, then jump from the ground onto the chair and then (without stopping) jump back down to the ground, then back up back down etc and so on. Do 10 minutes of this per day with a 30-60 second break at the 5 minute mark.
Keep increasing the height that you jump to as you get better.
The third is squats. Either get a clothes basket and fill it with bricks/books/ something with some weight, or failing that, you can get a deep pot from the kitchen and fill it with water (not dirt, your mum will kill you!). Hold the pot or basket to your chest and position a chair behind you and squat down as if to sit on the chair, and go back up just before your butt touches the chair.
That should do it!
Squats are great for leg strength. Deadlifts are amazing too. I do both.