Anyone Else do legs yet this week???

[coolcolj]

Strong, I cannot access your pics, but I already know that you are big and powerful. Believe me, you are not overtraining your legs. Your legs are larger than most people, therefore you need a lot of sets to stimulate the muscle. You are doing the right thing

what kind of logic is that?

My thighs and calves are big, but that doesn't mean I can withstand or need 30 sets to stimulate them

 

[strong island]

THANX BRO

Strong, I cannot access your pics, but I already know that you are big and powerful. Believe me, you are not overtraining your legs. Your legs are larger than most people, therefore you need a lot of sets to stimulate the muscle. You are doing the right thing. If possible please list your routine for calves. I am looking to redesign my routine and I would like to compare with another trainer.

Thanks for the compliments, although I don't consider my legs that big and strong. BUT they are constantly getting better.

Here is a Poliquin Calve workout I have been following, lately I have been tweeking it a little:



Day 1

A1) Seated 3 x 10/5/5 1-0-1 tempo

A2) Donkey 3 x 30-50 1-0-1 tempo

B1) Standing 10 x 10-30 1-1-1 tempo (10 seconds between sets, basically giant drop set)


Day 2 (48 hours later)

A1) Triple drop set: Standing 3 x 10/10/10 1-2-1 tempo (90 seconds between sets)


* A1 and A2 means they are supersetted
* 1-0-1 means 1 second to lower, no pause at bottom, 1 second to raise.


Vision Quest was one of my favorite movies when I was in high school. I used to watch that shit before matches.

Peace

 

[needsize]

what kind of logic is that?

My thighs and calves are big, but that doesn't mean I can withstand or need 30 sets to stimulate them

I agree, that logic doesn't play. I've got some pretty big quads, and I rarely ever go above 7-9 sets, and they are constantly getting bigger and better, so just because I muscle is big, doesn't necessarily mean that it needs a ton of sets to grow. For me anyway, I'll always try to get away with the lower amount of sets as I don't want to spend all day at the gym.

 

[strong island]

I agree that bigger muscles doesn't mean more sets. But there is no one right way to train. There are many ways to stimulate hypertrophy. I recently only did only one set of breathing squats for five weeks.

This was my last workout like that:

Breathing squats: 1 set 290 x 20
leg ext: 3 sets
Leg curls: 3 sets

That was it. Only 7 sets, but I made great gains. The past few weeks I have been doing a lot of volume and have been making great gains as well.

So few intense sets or many moderate sets. They both work for me.

 

[needsize]

I agree that bigger muscles doesn't mean more sets. But there is no one right way to train. There are many ways to stimulate hypertrophy. I recently only did only one set of breathing squats for five weeks.

This was my last workout like that:

Breathing squats: 1 set 290 x 20
leg ext: 3 sets
Leg curls: 3 sets

That was it. Only 7 sets, but I made great gains. The past few weeks I have been doing a lot of volume and have been making great gains as well.

So few intense sets or many moderate sets. They both work for me.

i do the same thing, every now and then I double the number of sets on all my workouts for 2 weeks, just to give the body a shock. It's during this time that I'm a miserable bastard the whole day before I go in the hit legs, I hate doing that many sets for quads, nothing like feeling like you wanna throw up, badly, but you can't as you have 10 more sets just for quads

 

[benchmonster]

Last night was Max Effort Squat/Deadlift night. I tried some new stuff and will definately be adding these in from time to time.

Feet together pin Good Mornings from a 43 inch pin. Worked up in triples going 45, 95, 135, 185, 225, and finished with a double at 275.

Then did bottom position squats as follows: 43 inch pin for 10 reps with 275, 40 inch pin for 5 reps w/275, and 37 inch pin for 5 reps w/ 275. Very tough exercise. Bottom position pausing on the pins every rep is tough. And great, I think, for starting strength.

Then Reverse Hypers for 2 sets of 10 w/mini band.

Then 50 rep set of barbell curls. (ouch)

Then hanging band abs with doubled green band.

Tough workout. Very good one though. I am very unsatisfied overall with my squat depth, and have decided to back way off on weight, work on form, and nail each and every squat low till it becomes habit.

Also quit using suit bottoms for everything except low box squats. Hopefully this will turn over a new leaf.

B.

 

[Skizac]

Squats:
135x2
225x2
315x2
405x3 - belt on
455x2
505x1
525x1 - new belt-only PR

high bar, narrow squats - 315x10
jump squats - 225x12
leg extensions - 150x8, 150x7
standing calf raise - 5 sets of 10 with 160.