I am amazed that not many people train their legs

Case point. I rarely, RARELY see anyone train legs other than about 5 bodybuilders I see in the morning, and 2 of the guys are juicers, 1 of them being a guy who always spots me on HEAVY lifts. I also one have seen 1 woman work legs on leg press, squats, and lunges.

Time to ramble a bit....

I weight train 4 days out of the week, do HIIT cardio 2 days, and take 1 day off completely. So another words, I am in the gym 6 days out of the week. I wake up every morning at 4:30am, I'm at the gym by 6:00am and I always see the usual morning crowd at my Gold's, and it's pretty crowded. Mostly it's the same men and women at the gym at that time. Occassionally you will see a new college student come in that thinks he's Jay Cutler and they either end up hurting themselves or they leave a bad impression with the rest of the normal crowd.

There are quite a few lifters in my gym in the morning, both men and women. There are a few women that even go on the barbell side of the gym where all the compound lifts are. They will put some weight on a bench press, military press, etc., and usually ask for a spot which is no problem. But I never see them train legs. I asked one woman if she does barbell squats, dumbell squats, or even lunges.

She said "No, I just run." I nodded and went back to my training. Couldn't believe it. Do people really have this misconception that running whether it's outside in 100% heat or on the treadmill works your legs enough? I mean seriously? How many marathon runners do you know out of the millions that there are have fabulous and porportioned legs? Probably less than 5%. Their legs look horrible. They may have great endurance but you can get endurance doing any HIIT training or sports.

(We'll get back to the entire "running" thing in a moment.)

Then I see quite a few men that don't train legs either, and these guys seem to be pretty serious about bodybuilding. You can always tell the guys that are serious versus the guys that aren't. It's pretty obvious. It's truely mind boggling to me how many people just neglect their leg workout but they bust their *kitten* on their upper body. Or worse, they'll spend 60 minutes doing nothing but crunches for their entire workout sweating up a storm. These guys know that doing that many crunches in your core is actually counter productive right? Apparently not.

Onto the running thing.

People love to run and I respect that. Everyone likes their own version of cardio. Some runners are also training for marathons or 10-15k runs, etc. Awesome.

What boggles my mind is when someone told me the other day that it's better to run outside than on a "stupid treadmill" as they called it. I laughed and asked him why and he said "because you get a better workout running outside in the heat". Needless to say I educated him a little bit by explaining to him that first of all, running out in 100% heat isn't brave, it's stupid. He got offended. Then I proceeded to explain to him that running on the treadmill requires more than DOUBLE the amount of coordination and balance in your entire body over running outside thus giving you more of a workout.

He shook my hand, scratched his head a few times, and then agreed.

Anyways, I'm done here my friends. Just wanted to see what everyone's thoughts were on training legs. It's just as important as training upper body. And no, I don't mean just doing leg extensions.