Compound exercises
Compound exercises target multiple muscle groups. These are the best exercises to build muscle mass for hardgainers. With compound exercises you will pack more muscle on your upper and lower body. Performing these big exercises like squats and deadlifts, your body will naturally produce more testosterone. Also, the additional testosterone from extra muscle tissue stimulus will help you build muscle mass faster.

Increase weight regularly
Increasing the weight you lift is very important. One of the most common mistakes hardgainers make when building bigger legs is not increasing weight. What happens is this; your body gets used to lifting that specific amount of weight and sees no reason to get stronger or increase muscle size. This is called a plateau, you continue using the same amount of weight and see little to no gains. The trick is simple, add more weight and your body will notice that if it wants to continue to lift that weight, it will have to get stronger and increase size. This is going to play a major roll in your attempt to build bigger legs as a hardgainer.

Rest your legs (reduce cardio)
As a hardgainer, trying to build bigger legs, cardio should definitely be reduced. Cardio exercises like running, jogging, walking, etc, are all using your leg muscles. This will increase chances of fatigue when exercising your leg muscles. Basically what happens is one of two things, either your not able to lift to your full potential or you over train the muscle. Either way, the process of muscle increase is being denied.

Resting the leg muscles is very important. In fact, rest might be the main reason even regular weight lifters (non hardgainers) have trouble building certain muscle groups. Resting your leg muscles between cardio and lifting is absolutely necessary. In simple terms; our muscles grow while they rest, if they don’t get sufficient rest, they don’t grow. It really is that simple.

Build bigger legs
So let’s focus on those compound exercises to increase muscle mass throughout the body, Increase the weight regularly to avoid a plateau, and rest those legs. Follow these 3 simple steps and get those “tree trunk legs” you have always wanted. Don’t be embarrassed about having skinny legs when you’re at the pool anymore. Put those long pants away and show off those big muscular legs and calfs.