However, by skipping leg day, people are doing themselves a great disservice, as the comfort, they gain simply isn’t worth the problems they’re causing themselves. Before you think about skipping another leg day, you have to consider what you’re giving up in exchange for evading leg pain.

Poor Aesthetics

The problem with putting a heavy focus on your upper body instead of sticking to a healthy balance is that you’re going to look top-heavy. Poor aesthetics aren’t just isolated in your legs either. Skipping leg day also means that you end up with skinny glutes, something that may significantly hurt your appeal.

Diminished Mobility

Skipping leg day will leave your legs weakened. Not only do your legs need to support the weight from your bulky upper body, but they also have to do so without the much-needed muscle fibers that can help. Weakened legs also mean that you will have poor performance in sports that require a great deal of running. This also robs you of the ability to do adventurous activities, and increases the risk of injury, since you lack a solid foundation for balance.

You Weaken Two of Your Best Lifts

One big reason why it’s important to train your legs is that your leg muscles are an essential muscle group for both deadlifts and squats. Both these workouts are the best compound exercises that can help improve your overall strength.

However, your legs are important, since they serve as your support and foundation for these lifts, and they’re a secondary muscle group that lends power to your exertions during these lifts. Your legs also serve as the primary support for your body. This is also the reason why it’s important that you also ensure that you wear flat shoes when doing squats and deadlifts for maximum stability.

Weak legs will increase the risk of injury (especially as you age) since they won’t be able to support your primary muscle groups as much as they should.

Diminished Muscle Hypertrophy

Legs are among the biggest muscles in the body. By skipping leg days, you are relinquishing the chance to cause your body to release higher levels of testosterone and HGH (human growth hormone) both of which play a vital role in muscle development.

While skipping leg day doesn’t necessarily mean that your muscles completely stop growing, doing so will mean that you give up strides that you would have otherwise made if you worked your leg muscles. Growing your muscles also makes it easier to break through fitness plateaus, as you’ll be able to burn more fat and increase the intensity of your workouts.

Diminished Fat Burning

Much like how you deprive your body of testosterone and human growth hormone, skipping leg days also means that you burn less fat. It’s also important to consider the fact that our leg muscles are constantly under tension whether we’re running, walking, or standing. This means that it’s important to exert tension in order to trigger a fat-burning response.

Working out your legs is not a simple process. Leg muscles are the most stubborn muscle group in the body because of how difficult they are to develop. However, this doesn’t mean that they’re more trouble than they’re worth. Here are some things you need to keep in mind as you work your legs:

Compounding Returns

The first thing to understand is that like with any other muscle group, working out your legs is going to be most difficult in the beginning. As you continuously develop your legs, the stronger they become, and the more tension they can endure. The rate at which your legs develop increases as they become stronger.

You’ll even eventually be able to perform more complex workouts, shifting from traditional compound exercises, and into isolation exercises. Some of the best leg exercises are much more effective when performed together because the tension they create accumulates.

Range of Motion

Before we can trigger muscle hypertrophy, we first need to ensure that we’re able to subject the muscles to a tension greater than what they are accustomed to. To do this, it’s important to put an emphasis on making sure that we perform our exercises with a full range of motion. Slow, deep squats will also yield greater gains than explosive half-squats. This is also because we need to increase the time under tension that our legs are subjected to.

Leg days aren’t fun, but you’ll learn to appreciate them. There’s a different appeal in performing something that most people tend to avoid. If you’re one of the few who are willing to do their leg days, we hope that the information above helps you a great deal.

Also, we need to thank Movember and the no-shave campaign, which have gained popularity worldwide. Men grow mustaches and beards to create awareness for preventing cancer and men’s health initiatives. Looking at the massive popularity of facial hair, men prefer to grow facial hair and change their beard styles. Talking about the history of facial hair, which is quite fascinating. During Ancient Egypt, growing facial hair was in fashion among high ranked men. Both the kings and the queens grow hair on their chins. They were known to wear metal beards as a symbol of their dominance. Moving to the medieval period, where soldiers and kings had a place for their mustaches. Today, people have a beard and mustaches out of religious values. But above all, teenagers grow facial hair only to impress women but do women really like facial hair?

Studies have proved that women found men with facial hair more attractive and physically and socially more dominant. Women tend to link masculine faces with men’s physical strength, social dominance, and terrifying. Even if you wonder why women prefer men with facial hair, here are some reasons which can clear your mind-

1. Women prefer beards or mustaches

A survey conducted of around 2,500 women by a dating site concluded that over 60 percent of women find men with beards more attractive. More percentage of women prefer beards or mustaches, and only 6 percent prefer men with only mustaches. At the same time, around 43 percent of women like a man with a beard alone. However, women see their ideal man with a full-coverage face.

2. Women think that stubble is for flings and beards are commitments

Women prefer men with facial hair, but they also judge men with the type of facial hair they are carrying. A study written in the Journal of Evolutionary Behaviour, women were divided into three groups, and each group showed a picture of men with three different facial hair. The three images contain men with a clean-shaven look, with light stubble and heavy stubble look. Most of the women choose men with soft stubble to look as their ideal men. Just like the way Ryan Gosling moustache goes with its delicate stubble look.

3. Women believe that facial hair signify masculinity

However, all beards and mustaches style signifies a man’s masculinity, but women find a man with facial hair not only masculine but also more confident and generous. Many women think men with a clean-shaven look lack confidence.

4. For women’s the length of the beard also matters

A man’s beard length can say a lot about his personality. Women find men with a 10-day stubble more attractive and charming than those who carry long beard styles. It is so because sometimes men with long beards look aggressive instead of appealing. Contrary to this, men with very light stubble, 5-day facial hair also move out of women’s preference.

5. Women find bearded men as better dads

Bearded men are more likely to resemble masculinity; it’s not a stint that they are believed to be better dads. Many studies also suggest that men with beards are prone to rank as best fathers than clean-shaven men.

6. Women find a bearded man as a better spouse

When a woman considers that bearded men can become better dads, they find men with facial hair as ideal partners. Bearded men have all the potential features that make them gentlemen, better spouses, and dads. Not only this, but beards are trapped with many biological factors.

Conclusion

Although beards are in fashion and every man wants to grow a great one. But not all men are lucky to produce the desired one; beard growth depends on many factors, including genetic factors as a primary concern. Besides genes, your diet, exercise, hormones, and stress also contribute when you want to have facial hair. However, there are many ways to improve your beard growth rate and improve its quality. To impress a woman, you will need to grow dashing facial hair that requires sufficient time, effort, and care.

If you’ve been doing some research on this procedure, you will know that the Brazilian butt lift is not the only way to change the shape and size of your buttocks, butt implants are an option too.

The BBL: A Brief Overview

The Brazilian butt lift combines liposuction, fat transfer and specialised techniques to help patients achieve a shapelier behind. Fat is generally removed from areas such as the waist, thighs and stomach and transferred to the buttocks.

Along with changing the shape of their buttocks, patients can also benefit from the removal of excess fat, which leaves them with that desirable hourglass figure.

So, why should you choose the Brazilian butt lift over implants?

Why a Butt Lift is Better than Implants

Here are just a few of the reasons why butt job specialists such as Dr Ritz prefer the Brazilian butt lift to implants:

• When comparing the results of a Brazilian butt lift to those achieved with implants, you will clearly see that the results of a BBL look far more natural
• Since a BBL isn’t as invasive and uses the patient’s own fat, there are fewer complications
• Patients can look forward to a curvier shape because liposuction is a part of the procedure
• Fat shapes really well and can easily be placed in areas that need it the most
• Unlike implants, a Brazilian butt lift uses your body’s own fat, which means it won’t be rejected
• The incisions required to complete a Brazilian butt lift are much smaller, which means scarring is minimal
• Patients can expect a faster recovery with a BBL and can return to work about a week after their surgery

Are You a Good Candidate?

If you tick the below boxes, you could be a good candidate for a Brazilian butt lift:

• You’ve recently lost a lot of weight and are experiencing sagging of the buttocks
• You’re carrying excess fat that you can’t lose using exercise and a healthy diet
• You’re close to your ideal weight but you want to enhance the appearance of your lower body
• You’re at your goal weight but your skin refuses to contract following liposuction due to lack of elasticity
• You’re generally unhappy with the shape and sagginess of your buttocks

Choosing Your BBL Surgeon

If you are considering this procedure, know that only a plastic surgeon who is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons should be performing your procedure – this is not the same as a cosmetic surgeon.

Make a point of doing as much research as you can on potential surgeons, which includes thoroughly reviewing their before and after gallery to ensure that they are capable of achieving the results you’re hoping for.

Before we go into the nitty-gritty of becoming a fitness model, let’s look over the common misconceptions about the industry and who are the most famous female fitness models.

Fitness modeling shares features of the fashion and fitness industry. Sports models must focus on their diet, training, posture, and health to reach the highest levels of fame. Many people consider that fitness or sports models have bodybuilders’ type muscle definition and that they’re extremely ripped. However, they’re just in good shape and toned.

Also, fitness models are not the backstage fit models used to check that the clothes are the right size and fit perfectly before being worn by fashion models on the runway.

So, here are the 7 steps on how to become a fitness model.

1. Set Your Goals

Depending on your physical traits and advantages you can decide which niche of fitness modeling best works for you. By learning where you can improve and what body features need adjustments, you can pick out the market which will allow you to shine. Whether you’re an athlete or just have an amazing body structure, you can decide what products you want to promote.

2. Configuring Your Body

In fitness modeling, your body is your instrument. So, if it’s finely tuned, you won’t need to worry about anything.

However, by carefully planning out your diet to include rich nutrients such as protein, vegetables, fruits, and vitamins, you’ll increase your body’s potential and help it withstand the training sessions of your workouts. If you’re not happy with your definition, cut out the carbs for a while, but always make sure you get your dose of carbs before training.

Keeping hydrated is also a must for any fitness model. Dehydration leads to lack of energy and can harm your overall health. Not to mention the damage it causes to your skin.

3. Track Progress

Keeping track of the progress your body is making is key to achieving your goals. By visualizing how the measurements are getting closer to your aim, you’ll push yourself even harder to get where you want to be.

You can use different apps to record anything from your weight, blood pressure, muscle/ fat ratio, body measurements, and heart rate. Or, you can take the old-school approach and write everything down in a journal.

4. Practice in front of the mirror. Get ready for the camera.

Practicing your poses in front of the mirror will help you make the needed adjustments to your posture and how you hold yourself. You may be confident and love your body, but things are different when you show up in front of a camera. It’s an art which can be learned through practice.

Consider hiring a coach to help you with movements and posing techniques. When you think you’re ready, turn on the camera and do your thing. Being as natural as possible is key to an authentic look.

5. Invest for Success

So, you have the body and the look, but you also need to have a professional portfolio or book to send out to modeling agencies or individual agents. To guarantee success, you should hire a professional photographer to help you create your image. Your portfolio is the first impression you make, so aiming for professional portfolio layout, content and setup is your best approach.

6. Research and Network

When you’ve put together your high-calibre portfolio and you’re satisfied with your overall look, you should dive into researching and finding the best fitness model agency capable of reflecting and promoting the look you want.

A modelling agency has various approaches to hiring. While an agency may require face to face meetings, another modelling agency could ask you to use the social media platform or the official online site to submit your application.

Networking is equally vital to your modeling career. Knowing the who’s who in the industry is crucial to becoming famous. Make friends and let the world know you’re up for the challenge.

7. Keep on Pushing

Just like any industry, the world of fitness modeling is highly competitive and can take a toll on the weak hearted. You’ll be dealing with love and hate comments, especially in the online social media environment. Keep your head up and stick to your game. Grow a thick skin and don’t let anyone pull you off track.

The Range of Physical Standards

Although your lifelong dream may be to become a fitness model and you’re extremely motivated, you should first check if you meet the industry’s physical requirements in terms of height and weight.

Although the weight and fitness levels are flexible, there’s not much you can do about your height, except if you want to take it to the extremes and undergo surgery. In the fitness modeling world, body type prevails, however, height can be a make it or break it factor. If you want to become a female fitness model you should be between 5’4″ to 6′ tall. However, men fitness models must be between 5’10 and 6’3″ in height.

The Look

Additionally to the body type and measurements, fitness models should also be very attractive and appealing to a large audience. They should have a great smile, beautiful and shiny hair and flawless skin to be considered marketable. A commercial look will guarantee increased hire rates by companies who wish to promote their products.

A Bit of Inspiration Before We Go

The famous Jennifer Nicole Lee or JNL, as known in the fitness modeling industry, is one of the leading female fitness models worldwide. She’s been featured in over 40 magazine covers, won multiple swimsuit competitions and has endorsed some of the largest companies in the world. The funny thing is that she never had any fitness or athletic experience prior to becoming a fitness model. Her weight was over 200 lbs. However, she shed the pounds and became Miss Bikini America 2016. If that’s not an inspiration, what is?