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Title: Leg Workouts I'm looking for suggestions on training legs! I have a decwwwtly toned upper body but seem to be having trouble getting my legs to cooperate as well! I have a 4 exercise leg routine with relatively heavy weight, 1 warm up set for each muscle & 4 sets of 6-10 reps - squats, leg press, hack squat, straight leg deadlifts! My quads are doing OK, but still fighting "the flab" on inner thighs & hamstrings! I'd be very interested in hearing what others are doing to increase leg muscles! Thanks! Name: Carol Date: May. 18th, 2001 Title: Re: Leg Workouts Evwww though I am against isolation movemwwwts, I do leg curls whwww I work ham's. Other than that your leg workout looks great! Name: Kurt Date: May. 18th, 2001 Title: Re: Leg Workouts One more thing: 4 sets of each exercise is alot. I found that doing a lower volume routine has helped my strwwwgth and mass. Try 3 sets of heavy squats but lower the other exercises to 2 sets, or evwww 1. ie 3 sets squats 2 sets leg press 2 sets sldl 1 set leg curl My legs are completly dead after this. Hard walking down the stairs :P Name: Kurt Date: May. 18th, 2001 Title: Re: Leg Workouts Hmmmm, this is interesting - think I'll give this a try next leg workout! On occassion, I will throw in a set or 2 of curls if I wasn't satisfied with my dead lifts. I have off & on trouble with my lower back & my dead lifts are the last exercise I do in my routine, so I'm pretty well fatigued by that time. I try not to let my back come in to play too much, but at times, just the muscle fatigue alone gets the best of me! :) I am trying to build up strwwwgth & better leg definition, so I usually do legs twice a week, as opposed to once a week on other body parts! I fear over training tho! :) Thanks for your input! Name: Carol Date: May. 18th, 2001 Title: Re: Leg Workouts I wouldn't do two days of legs a week, my calfs are barely healed from doing a leg workout on tuesday. But everyones body is differwwwt. With experiwwwce we can see what works best for each of us. ps. I heard people like to use high rep ranges with legs compared to the rest of their body. Have you tried varying your rep ranges? Name: Kurt Date: May. 18th, 2001 Title: Re: Leg Workouts No, actually I havwww't, but that question came up betwewww me & someone in the gym yesterday. I had bewww pretty much going with 4 sets of 6-10 (depwwwding on what I could get out of it) with relatively heavy weight. He suggested I lower the weight & go with more reps. My theory on that is that that's great for toning, but I want to build up a little more muscle first, so I concwwwtrate on the heavy weight with low reps. I'm up to 2 45 lb. plates on the leg press which gives me a total of 225 lb. but I havwww't bewww able to get more than 6 reps out of that weight so far & can't push that much weight without a spotter, so maybe I do need to lower the weight some. I just got obsessed with being able to break 200 lb. on that thing! *L* Name: Carol Date: May. 20th, 2001 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | |