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How to gain weight in legs for skinny girl | At home Guide 2023

Everything starts with the legs, whether you’re looking for strength, endurance, beautiful looks, or a healthy lifestyle. But don’t worry because I have gathered the four best practical steps to help you achieve this!

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Workout ideas at home to gain weight in leg and glutes

1. Squats with or without resistance band

Squat with hip abduction at home by Kristina Mikolcic

Squats, a simple exercise that involves lowering your hips from a standing position and then returning to a standing position, are one of the most fundamental and effective workouts for building muscles around the hips and thighs.

How to do: To begin, stand upright with your feet shoulder-width apart and your hands on your shoulders, gripping the barbell.

Lower your hips by bending your knees and hips, being cautious not to bend your knees too far forward.

Squats strengthen your hamstrings, quadriceps, calves, and partially glutes, allowing you to increase muscular weight in your thighs and glutes.

From 8 to 12 repetitions.

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2. Bulgarian Split Squats with or without weights

BARBELL BULGARIAN SPLIT SQUAT

It’s a single-leg squat version. Instead of hanging your non-working leg in the air, it was supported by a bench behind your back.

How to do it: You begin by standing straight with one leg on the floor and the other bent and foot on a seat behind you.

Now lower your body while maintaining your torso straight, then rise up and return to the beginning position.

These Bulgarian split squats target your quad muscles more specifically. From 8 to 12 repetitions.

3. Lunges

Lunges are also beneficial to the legs and buttocks.

How to do it: Stand up and clench your abdominal muscles. Then, as if you were stepping forward, move one leg forward. Lean forward, as if ready to kneel, so that each knee is at a 90-degree angle.

Return to your original stance by putting weight back on your heel.

Repeat on one leg from 8 to 12 times. Rep with your other leg.

4. Calf Raises

Lunges are also beneficial to the legs and buttocks.

How to do it:

Stand up straight and flat, with your feet in front and your abdominal muscles contracted. For added difficulty, stand on a slightly elevated ledge with the front part of your feet.

Raise your feet in front of you, as though you’re attempting to stand on the tips of your toes.

Hold the pose for a few seconds. Then, return to your original position gradually.

From 8 to 12 repetitions.

5. Leg Hip Thrust

Hip Thrusts

How to do it: Sit on the floor with your back against the bench, feet a foot apart, elbows pressed against the for stability. This is your beginning posture.

Next, produce a push with your hips to lift them into the air until your body is parallel to the ground.

Squeeze the glutes, then gently and controllably descend the hips to the beginning position.

From 8 to 12 repetitions.

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Best tips to continue growing your legs

1. If you want to gain weigh in legs, replace cardio for Low Intensity Steady State

Cardio is something that some individuals consider to be a fundamental need in their life. It’s an important part of many people’s continual quest to lose weight. But what if you are naturally thin? Is it still necessary to perform cardio?

First and foremost, you must decide what you want to accomplish as you are gaining weight through doing the best exercises. From having skinny legs, we want to have more muscle gain to have healthy weight on the lower legs.

When you’re naturally slim and want to acquire lean muscle, cardio can still be beneficial, but your focus will be different. Instead of attempting to burn as many calories as possible, you’ll focus on retaining and increasing lean mass (muscle) as well as strengthening the heart and lungs.

How much cardio should you exercise if you're attempting to gain weight in legs?

Long and frequent aerobic exercises will not help you grow muscle and will most likely impede your progress. 20 or 30 minutes, 2-3 times a week should suffice to keep your cardiovascular system in tip-top form and you slender. When doing LISS cardio, the goal is to keep your heart rate around 50 to 65 percent of your maximum heart rate for better muscle development.

At home training is the best to gain weight in your legs, if you are not a gym addict

If you want to grow and shape your legs, don’t even hesitate to go through an extensive workout routine. The human body will not significantly change until driven to do so. That is why you should never become complacent in your muscle mass training. You’ll reach a plateau when you reach a point when your exercises are no longer demanding building muscle.

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Cardio alternatives to curvier legs, tights and glutes

Aerobic and cardio workouts should be avoided if you want thicker legs. These are designed to burn fat and tone muscles rather than build you up.

But you don’t have to avoid them completely. You can tone your muscles by doing these workouts in moderation. This will aid in the development of definition, allowing you to create the desired look.

  • Long Walking – is one of the best alternatives and is a form of LISS. You may perform walking lunges in addition to increasing pressure on the lower leg.

  • Rope Jumping – improves focus and mental health as it allows you to increase leg size while jumping in one place.

  • Dancing – a skinny girl wanting more muscle growth and thicker legs must consider doing this as an alternative. It promotes coordination and improves your balance, building these sexy legs and all while dancing sexy. And here are some of the sexiest dance styles you should consider trying if your goal is shaping your legs.

For more alternatives, read my article Cardio alternatives to running at home for women in 2023.

2. Rest and manage the stress

Stress disrupts your metabolism.

Cortisol falls among a family of hormones called ‘glucocorticoids’, which increase blood glucose levels. It enhances glucose, protein, and fat metabolism and taps into your current stockpiles to free up energy during times of extreme stress.

With energy levels raging, and no way of burning it off – because you’re at your desk rather than in a jungle – your body releases (energy-storing) insulin in an attempt to calm things down. Cortisol responds by storing the majority of the energy as dangerous visceral fat.

As a result, even if you eat like an athlete, being constantly stressed might hasten the development of a big tummy instead of leg muscles.

The solution is to get moving – slowly. Take a break from your intense sweat session and focus on low-intensity cardio activity, such as walking, running, swimming, dancing and cycling. Yoga is another excellent option.

When you exercise or lift weights, you cause microscopic tears in your muscle fibers. During recuperation, your body heals the damage, making your muscles larger and stronger.

High cortisol levels, on the other hand, cause prolonged muscular tension, decreased blood flow, and lactic acid buildup, making your muscles less elastic and restricted in mobility and development.

What food makes your thighs and legs bigger

What exactly to eat to gain muscle mass?

A healthy diet is key, but clean eating provides better support for muscle tissue

Clean eating is not a diet, but rather a method of eating. However, it is also a way of life that contributes to better health and well-being.

If you want to grow your legs, you don’t need a diet, you just need to eat clean an  healthy

Firstly: Consume more whole foods.

Does this sound familiar? Convenience food is OK, and sometimes even required; just be sure what’s in the can or packet is the actual thing, with few extraneous components.

Secondly: Consume food for nourishment.

Consume frequent, balanced meals and healthy snacks that are nutritious and not too time-consuming. Eat more at home and cook meals in healthier ways. To avoid losing weight on the upper legs and lower legs, make sure to eat 3 times a day at a minimum.

Thirdly: Consume more plant-based foods.

Increase your intake of plants by eating more plant-based proteins like beans, lentils, and peas, as well as high-protein whole grains like a whey protein shake, quinoa, barley, and buckwheat. Balance this by regular water intake for hydration or if you prefer, you may take in some low fat milk or add protein powder.

 

How to gain weight in legs for skinny girl
Eating homemade bread, cheese, and mini tomato for the breakfast in my favorite place in Zagreb, Melt

Here are some items to consume if you want to bulk up your legs. Some of the most effective meals for bulking:

  • Meats such as sirloin steak, pig tenderloin, chicken breast or white fish.
  • Dairy Products such as cheese, yogurt, and low-fat milk
  • Grains such as oatmeal, quinoa, and whole-grain bread.
  • Fruits such as bananas, grapes, watermelon, and berries.
  • Starchy Vegetables such as potatoes, lima beans, and cassava.
  • Vegetables such as spinach, cucumber, zucchini, and mushrooms.
  • Legumes such as lentils and black beans.
  • Culinary Oils such as olive oil and avocado oil.
 

This strength training through our digestive system will not only allow us in gaining muscle. Protein intake in forms like eating chicken breast or eating habits that include lean protein is only one way. And the other one? It’s known as a calorie surplus. This involves consuming more calories than you burn, which can lead to weight gain in the form of muscle or fat to have bigger legs.

If your goal is to gain weight in the right places, check our full guide for skinny women who wants to gain weight.


Summary

Because not everyone is created equal, your body is not the same as your gym buddy’s, and you cannot follow the same routine he or she is doing. 

Bulking up entails more than just performing the appropriate activities. It’s also about eating, drinking, and sleeping properly so that your entire body can contribute to muscle and bulk building.

Begin slowly for a week and perform the 7 exercises. Progressively add bulking workouts, as well as a diet more favorable to growing weight, muscle, and letting your body optimize exercise and nutrition to its greatest capacity.

FAQ

  • How to gain weight in legs fast for skinny girls?

    A beautifully achieved lower body does not come overnight. However, with the right personal trainer who can help you carry off a balanced caloric surplus, clean eating, workout plan, rest, and clothes you wear can help visually make your legs thicker such as bodysuits or leggings, your butt muscles will be emphasized making your legs look bigger as well.

  • How long does it take to gain weight in the legs?

    It takes 3 weeks to 3 months of performing lower body exercises such as doing leg extensions, calf raises, and having a modified workout routine from your personal trainer aided with eating healthy foods as a form of having a balanced diet to accomplish the muscle growth goal.

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  • How to gain weight in your legs without working out?

    You may consider walking on the stairs as a normal routine if you have one at home or on the place you are currently staying. Additionally, enrolling to dance lessons is even better as it involves all of your body. Dancers use to have big and toned legs.

By Kristina Mikolcic

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