23-24″ in the off season and  22″ in contest condition, Erik probably owns the biggest calves in the bodybuilding world today. While growing up, Erik Fankhouser played many sports, such as wrestling, track and field, and football. Often times he would hear comments like “popeye” and other discussion about how large and freaky his calves were. “If I could just get my biceps to match my calves, I’ll be happy,” The House says.

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Using machines are beneficial to those looking to build bigger and stronger legs for a variety of reasons. Machines allow better isolation of specific leg muscles and can be safer for those that have back, knee, and joint problems in general. Here is a list of exercises and how to do them.

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Working your legs are essential to building a balanced physique. Most people that you see in the gym are way too concentrated on upper body workouts that they look disproportionate with chicken legs. Not having well developed legs also will not help you at all at a bodybuilding competition, either. Here are some leg exercises that involve the Squat and variations of the traditional method.

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Branch Warren, IFBB professional bodybuilder, has placed as high as 2nd place in bodybuilding’s most respected competition, the Mr. Olympia (2009). He has also placed in the top 5 at various other competitions such as the second most respected bodybuilding competition, the Arnold Classic. One of Branch’s best attributes are his enormous, striated legs.

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Everyone wants to know what the top exercises are for building a specific body part. Not many people take into consideration the top exercises for your legs, or even training your legs for that matter. To be a balanced and well rounded bodybuilder, you will need a nice set of ‘wheels’ to go with the rest of your body. Here you will find our list of the top 5 leg exercises.

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The throwback, old school, powerlifting strongmen are going to fight me on this one…but I’m ready to come out swinging. In my experience, single leg training (in the form of heavy Bulgarian split squats, pistol squats, physioball single leg curls, single leg RDL’s and weighted step ups to name a few) can have a more significant impact on leg growth than traditional squats, deadlifts and hamstring curls.

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