I don’t believe in chicken legs.
I don’t believe in the possibility of little stork legs, puny pink flamingo legs, a pair of stilts under a big upper body.
You’re never going to get too disproportionate.
The body doesn’t like developing that way.
Athletic legs may not be large, but they’re still athletic, and will support a jacked upper body.
I’ll go periods of time not doing much lower body work, however when I’m mentally into the gym with barbell access…well I’ve been nicknamed “leg day” in the past.
I’ve always found the pyschology of where I go mentally having trained legs well to make leg training matter more than upper body to me.
And it doesn’t take much.
I’ve learned this over the years with spotty, and/or without much weight access.
Wow! I remember getting locked out of the school weight room as a senior.
How deadlifts and squats improved my wrestling, throwing, and sprinting.
One set of 20-50 overhead squats, and later in the day you understand why the ancient greeks cared so much about a man’s muscular thigh development.
A set of 30 smith machine hip thrusts, adding weight each time, and you remember that YOU train effectively everywhere.
Oh man I’ve done situps and pushups at grandma’s to not take a day off.
You don’t know how many places I’ve truly done pushups.
In the moment it’s how you make the circumstance work for you.
Do I miss barbells?
Yeah.
But right now I’m still training. I always train, and you’ll see me improvising with people standing on my back, living on burpees, pullups, and dips when I train alone, and getting back into full body even though my gym membership is in the land of Captain Upper Body Man™…planet fitness.