The Best Leg Workout Exercise I can give you I have found is also the one of the easiest to do. If you are interested in strengthening and toning your legs and thighs without the heavy knee straining weighted reps or high impact bouncing, I have just the leg workout for you.

(Let's not forget that one of the great benefits of building lean muscle is the fact that one pound of muscle tissue burns more calories in an hour, a day, a week and a month than one pound of fat. Lean muscle tissue will also help you burn calories while not moving or while sleeping.)

The "equipment" that you'll need is simply 10 playing cards that you'll be using for the workout.

This best leg workout exercise can be performed with the television or radio on and then as follows:

I place my 10 playing cards on the floor in a row in front of me. The cards should form the lower case letter "l" with a couple of inches spaced in between each one. Starting in a standing position, with empty hands, I squat down and pick up the first card I placed on the floor and then get back up into the standing position. The key word here is "squat" and makeing sure you do not bend over using your back. I then take that card I just picked up and squat back down and place it on card number two and then get back into the standing position. I then squat back down over that two card stack and pick up one of them, then back to the standing position, then back down to pick up the remaining one of that two card stack, then, yup, back into the standing position. I now have two cards in my hand and eight laying on the ground. I proceed to card three, squat down and back up after placing one card atop it, then squat down and back up after placing the second one from my hand into now a 3 card stack with seven individual cards behind it. I continue this process until I end by squatting and picking up ten stacked cards, then finish the exercise by squatting back down those ten cards.

So here is another way to look at it: Place 10 playing cards out in front of you, squat down and pick up card 1 and stand, then 1 goes down on 2 then stand back up, then down and pick back up 1 to a standing position, then pick up 2 then back to a standing position, then 2 goes down on 3 then back to standing, then 1 goes down on stack 2&3 then back to standing, then pick up 1, then pick up 2, then pick up 3, then put 3 on 4, then put 2 on stack 3&4, then put 1 on stack 2,3,4 then continue the individual card process until you have finished by picking up 10 cards individually and placing them back down one at a time.

A full work out breaks down to 110 repetitions using only one's body weight in low impact movements. Not many people, on the first time try, can make it through all 10 cards so it shouldn't be a "demotivator" if you stop at less than the tenth card. The most important thing is that you did some quick and easy leg strengthening movements that will help you and your body. After each "card squat" workout, I get the same feel immediately after finishing as I once did back in the day when I did weighted squats, just not the heavy strain on my knees. The soreness over the next day or so let's me know that I did indeed get the lean muscle building workout I needed. Once a week is enough and this can be used in conjunction with other work out programs. After a few workouts, the soreness does not linger as long as the first one did. If and when 10 cards become too easy, adding a bit of weight to a back pack is not out of the question.

Good luck, be consistent, your body will love you for it!

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