Valentina Lequeux in Two-Piece Workout Gear Shares "Complete Leg Day" Workout

Valentina Lequeux, a fitness coach known for her inspiring workout routines on Instagram, recently shared a comprehensive leg day workout that focuses on building lower body strength. In her post, she mentioned that this particular session was heavy on squats, with fewer accessory moves than usual due to her being on her time of the month, making the workout more challenging. "COMPLETE LEG DAY— ✌🏼LIKE + SHARE. This was a big squat workout, so I didn’t do as much accessory work as usual. I’m also on my TOTM (time of the month) so I’ve been feeling pretty awful to do a hardcore workout," she captioned the post. Here’s a breakdown of Valentina’s key exercises and the benefits they offer for building strength and maintaining overall fitness.

1. She Walks On A Treadmill

In her Instagram video, Lequeux walks on the treadmill to warm up. Walking has a lot of health benefits. The Mayo Clinic states, “Regular brisk walking can help you: Maintain a healthy weight and lose body fat. Prevent or manage various conditions, including heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Improve cardiovascular fitness. Strengthen your bones and muscles.”

2. She Uses Weights

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In her Instagram video, Lequeux is seen using weights to workout. ACE Fitness reports that using weights has a lot of benefits. “Using heavy weights increases intramuscular coordination, the number of type II motor units and the amount of muscle fibers engaged within a specific muscle. Have you ever felt your muscles shaking while lifting heavy weights? This is because you are recruiting and activating the larger type II muscle fibers, which are only stimulated to work when a muscle is challenged with heavy resistance or working to fatigue.”

3. She Does Squats

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Lequeux is seen doing a lot of squats in her Instagram video. Squats are a great exercise to do. Allina Health stated their benefits in an article. “The squat is one of the all-around best exercises to do for your lower body. It strengthens and tones muscles in your thighs, butt and calves and improves posture, balance, flexibility and inner core strength. Squatting also improves bone mineral density to keep your bones strong.”

4. She Does Hamstring Exercises

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Lequeux likes to do hamstring exercises. In her Instagram video, she is seen doing hamstring curls. ACE Physical Therapy & Sports Medicine Institute states that having strong hamstrings is very important. “Strengthening hamstring muscles is critical for many reasons. If the strength is not adequate to handle all of the stresses associated with everyday life, they will be injured. When they are strong enough to handle ‘life,’ they can prevent injuries to the low back, hips and entire lower extremity.”

5. She Works Her Upper Body

Lequeux shared some of her favorite upper body exercises in this Instagram video. She also shared her tips for building a strong upper body in the caption. “To form an hourglass figure you want your shoulders to be broader than your waist and your glutes to be symmetrical with your shoulders. You want to focus on building your upper & lower muscles. And building takes time so don’t worry you’re not going to become the hulk overnight.”

Andrea Shaw is tackling leg day – in her workout gear. In a new social media post the bodybuilder shows off her amazing figure and impressive strength during an intense workout session at the gym. “Another leg day in the books. Having specific glute and hamstring focused days is something new for me as of this past prep but I’m enjoying it,” she captioned the Instagram clip. How does she approach diet, fitness, and self-care? Here is everything you need to know about her lifestyle habits.

1. Her “Life Is Bodybuilding”

Andrea devotes herself to staying in shape. “There is a lot that goes into it,” she told BarBend. “My life is bodybuilding — almost exclusively for three months out of the year. I have to give it my best.”

2. She Trains Every Day

“I train every single day,” she said. “The goal is to work out seven days a week and to train each body part twice a week. The average person training is hitting a body part once a week. So, after four weeks, they’ve only trained that body part four times. If I train everything twice a week, I’ve hit that body part eight times in that same four weeks.”

3. Back Day Workout

On back day she focuses on her lower back, lats, and traps, while indirectly working her biceps. She does 10 exercises performing sets at a fast pace.

• Rack Pull: 5 x 8-12
• Pendlay Row: 4 x 8-10
• Barbell Shrug: 4 x 8-12
• Barbell Upright Row: 4 x 8-12
• Bent-Over Barbell Shrug: 4 x 8-12
• Wide-Grip Pull-up: 2 x 6
• Narrow-Grip Pull-up: 2 x 6
• Bent-Over Straight Arm Pulldown: 4 x 12
• Wide-Grip Pulldown: 4 x 12
• Face Pull: 4 x 12

4. Chest and Glute Day Workout

Shaw does two chest-specific moves on these days, including the side-by-side chest press. She also does glute bridges into the workout with dumbbells and five sets of farmer’s carry.

• Flat Dumbbell Bench Press: 6 x 8-12
• Side-by-Side Chest Press: 6 x 8-12
• Glute Bridge: 5 x 8-12
• Farmer’s Carry with Dumbbells: 5 sets

5. Leg Day Workout

On leg day Andrea starts with warmups and then moves onto doing 25 total sets of a chosen exercise.For example, she might go on the leg curl machine, select a weight, and perform a single rep each, rest a minute, then do two reps with the same weight, followed by three, and on and on until 25 reps. She ends up doing 325 reps. “When I finish that, my legs are humming,” she joked.