It’s not a complete substitute for squats and deadlifts but you could:
- Do holds on the hack squat machine
- Do ten second sprints, 80% effort, after thoroughly stretching hamstrings
- Do leg presses
- Do bodyweight lunges
- Do extensions: quad and hamstring
- Get those injectable fat things to vaguely imitate the look of someone who actually trains for strength or hypertrophy (see picture and link)
- Put on muscley costume or T-shirt
- Take up Zumba
- Do lots of box jumps and plyometrics, change name to leaping lanny poffo, let fact your brother is macho man randy savage be your little secret
- Paint face and body green, wear cutoffs, growl “you don’t want to make me angry” at others, implying legs might suddenly grow.
- Take Bosu ball or balance board into rack and do bodyweight leg exercises on those
- Attach ankle collars to cable stack, do high kicks, painting fence, crane and other maneuvers from karate kid
(The last suggestions were meant as a good-natured joke. So is this. Nothin’ personal. You can get the muscle look without effort!)
