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My legs are lagging hard, I've skipped too many leg days in my youth. However, my traps grow a lot, to the point where I've rarely worked them out and they are still prominent.
My legs are ridiculously genetically gifted. I refused to work them out for the first 6 months with my trainer back when I was 19 because I said trust me they'll be fine. He didn't believe me. When I started doing leg workouts they grew from 19.5" quads to 24.5" in six months. My trainer measured three times and kept saying, "my god no that can't be right..." and muttering to himself with me saying what?? He told me he's never seen anything like that.
By that point I could do 1,000 pound leg presses 15 times. I was doing 22 45 pound plates and that's the max the machine could put on there. I love leg workouts because any other day I go into the gym, I'm strong and capable but there are plenty of much stronger dudes. On leg day, I'm the strongest guy in the gym!
It has its drawbacks though as I don't fit into almost any jeans because apparently jeans makers think all guys should have scrawny little legs unless they have huge waists. Try finding a 32 inch waist jeans that fits these quads and I got only a few options. Levi's makes about 12-15 numbered styles. I only fit well into their absolute loosest fit, the 569s I believe. Their "athletic fit" jeans I can fit into but they're tight and absolutely not athletic fit. Not to mention I'm only leg pressing 600 right now because I haven't been doing heavy leg press until two weeks ago, building back up.
Every single time I buy "loose fit" jeans and it's such a joke no matter the brand, they are NOT loose! They barely fit.
Then I read something like a guy should be able to leg press 2.25x body weight and all I can think is that I'm not happy with anything under 5 and 2.25 is pathetic in my view. I guess I just have freakishly gifted legs. I also can max virtually any calf raise machine I've ever seen, like our gyms' 490 one. I still do calf raises with 600-700 pound leg presses.
The rest of my body I feel has completely average potential. Growth is measured and slow but will happen with proper diet and exercise. I wish I could swap and has a freakishly huge chest instead of legs :/ But oh well.
^ Do you do squats? I'm curious how a 1,000 pound leg press translates into a squat. I'm sure it's a little different for everyone. I used to do leg press as a substitution for squats but started doing squats again after my second knee surgery. I'm slowly building up a respectable squat number but sometimes struggle with range of motion. On a good day I'll hit 285-295 for reps. I've hit 575 on the leg press a few times but never leg press until after squats, deadlifts, weighted lunges, so I'm usually smoked by the time I get there.
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LMAO! 
