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Title: Leg Workouts
I'm looking for suggestions on training legs! I have a decently 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!
I'm looking for suggestions on training legs! I have a decently 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
Date: May. 18th, 2001
Title: Re: Leg Workouts
Even though I am against isolation movements, I do leg curls when I work ham's. Other than that your leg workout looks great!
Name: Kurt
Date: May. 18th, 2001
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 strength and mass. Try 3 sets of heavy squats but lower the other exercises to 2 sets, or even 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
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 strength & 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
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 different. With experience 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
Date: May. 18th, 2001
Title: Re: Leg Workouts
No, actually I haven't, but that question came up between me & someone in the gym yesterday. I had been pretty much going with 4 sets of 6-10 (depending 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 concentrate 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 haven't been 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
Date: May. 20th, 2001
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