Thread: Leg workout
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01-11-2005, 09:11 AM #1
Leg workout
Last night i worked out with this guy who used to play olympic level volleyball. he has huge legs and can jump out of the gym when we play basketball. Our workout consisted of 8 supersets of squats and leg press 10 reps of squats starting at 185 and making our way up to 315 after each set of squats you run to the leg press and pump out 15 reps of 270. I have never sweated so much in my whole life this was and extremely intense workout. I woke up this morning to go do cardio and had to pick my legs up of my bed one at a time with my hands I am so sore i dont know if i can do this every week but is was a good shock to the routine.
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01-22-2005, 05:30 PM #2AR Hall of Fame
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You do realize that squats and leg presses are recognized as the SAME movement to your legs?
Watch that, you can over-train VERY easily, and you'll get weaker instead of stronger.
Hit the squats harder and leave the leg presses alone, or vice versa. If your intensity is up, you shouldn't be able to run to another machine and do more work. If so, you aren't hitting it hard enough! Pre-exhausts are good to do, yes, however those include two DIFFERENT movements to a muscle, not two similar ones.
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01-22-2005, 05:39 PM #3
I agree with swole.. hm thats a change
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01-22-2005, 05:43 PM #4
are leg presses the same as the sled?
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01-22-2005, 06:53 PM #5Originally Posted by SwoleCat
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01-22-2005, 08:28 PM #6Originally Posted by SwoleCat
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01-23-2005, 08:43 AM #7AR Hall of Fame
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Originally Posted by SMYL_GR8
I'd choose another ham exercise, not feet higher on the leg press. You are still pushing w/your quads in that movement, and if you truly annihilated your quads CORRECTLY with squats, you don't want to do ANY more pressing movements. Stiff leg deads or 1 legged ham curls w/an accentuated negative, or hyperextension static holds.
Do as you wish, you want to superset, be my guest. What do I know with my "theories"?
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01-23-2005, 09:01 AM #8Originally Posted by SwoleCat
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01-24-2005, 11:48 AM #9Originally Posted by SwoleCat
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01-25-2005, 09:54 AM #10New Member
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Nice post Swole -- any elaboration on your leg training theories would be greatly appreciated.
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01-25-2005, 10:58 PM #11AR Hall of Fame
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No thanks, I'm done w/the advice here for a good while. Too many challenges/mis-understandings and flames (no flames in this thread, but the negating of common knowledge is horrid).
I'm gonna sit back and just watch if I visit this forum in the future.
I stick to the diet area for the most part.
Too many headaches having to explain basic exercise physiology and still have it refuted. Granted there are different ways to do all exercise approaches, yes, but there are also common sense approaches that should be able to be understood by the masses.
So to each his very precious own, and simply do what floats your perverbial boat. I know what works for me and those who pay me for my intelligence/experience, so I'm pretty much set. No need for having to defend advice I offer up here, that gets very old quickly. Best way to avoid such occurrences is to simply sit back and people watch.
Thank you and good night!
~SC~Last edited by SwoleCat; 01-25-2005 at 11:02 PM.
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