It"s Leg Day!!!!

[JKurz1]

Anyone else start off the weekend right, with a balls out leg day/night? After looking at some of your routines, can't fathom how you can really pump them with only 6-8 sets???? How can 6-8 sets feel like you've done anything, let alone take more than 20 minutes? Let's here the best routine. Mine looks like this, may be too high volume for most, but I love the feeling of crawling down the stairs...

BACK SQUATS 2 WARM, THEN 5X5
FRONT SQUATS - 2 X 8
LEG PRESS - 4, 12X10,10,8
2 SETS FARMERS WALK W/ 50LB DBELLS
LEG EXTENTION - 3 X 12X10X8
LEG CURL - 3 X 10
HYPERS

I deadlift for 7-8 sets on back day (tomorrow, so I nix them during leg day....)

Mucho Karma

 

[bigguns15]

Hope you have a great leg day! My day to train legs is Sunday, and it looks something like this:

(not including warm-up sets)
Back Squat - 4 sets of 3-8 depending on where I'm at in training cycle
Bottom Half Squats - 3 sets of same rep scheme
SM Lunges - same
SLDL - same
Glute/Ham on the Lat Machine - same
Maybe Leg curls if I'm feeling really energetic

That's enough to get me pumped up and sore the next day. Depending on how fast I move through the workout and how many people are training legs that day, it takes 60-90 minutes.

 

[Lord_Suston]

just changed mine to

back squats 3x8
front squats 2x10
Romanian Deadlifts 2x10
Leg ext 2x12
Calf raises

I will be sprinting twice as well in the week for my hammies,

I am not a big fan of leg press though, never felt comfy IMO

 

[MsBeverlyHills]

After looking at some of your routines, can't fathom how you can really pump them with only 6-8 sets???? How can 6-8 sets feel like you've done anything, let alone take more than 20 minutes?

Its all in the intensity of your sets-- you will not gain strength by training at 65% of your max for reps of 10-12... you will gain strength by training at 85% of your max for sets of 6-8.

 

[BodybuildingUniverse]

My leg day has been way whittled down. Short but intense. I actually train shoulders before them as I am trying to catch my upper body up a bit.

Leg Day looks ike this:

Side laterals
Military Press
Two-arm plate overhead 45-pound plate lift (a finishing pump exercise, seems to have strengthened my rotators as well)

THEN

Leg Ext
Heavy Leg curl
Squats (one week heavy triples, the next week a stomach-emptying 20-rep set)
Donkey Calf raises

EAT

 

[SofaGeorge]

My standard routine looks like this:

squats 5 x 5
front squats 2 x 10
leg press 2 x 20
sldl 5 x 5
leg curls 3 x 10
calves 5-9 sets of whatever I feel like

or

leg press 5 x 5
front squats 2 x 10
squats 2 x 20
leg curls 5 x 5
sldl 3 x 10
calves 5-9 sets of whatever I feel like

 

[bigstve12]

thur night is my leg day..last night. Minus warmups

squat 5X5 280lbs
leg press 3X20 8plates, 10plates, 12plates
hacks 2X10 180, 290

that was it for me, short and sweet...but intense. I do hammys with back

 

[SofaGeorge]

thur night is my leg day..last night. Minus warmups

squat 5X5 280lbs
leg press 3X20 8plates, 10plates, 12plates
hacks 2X10 180, 290

that was it for me, short and sweet...but intense. I do hammys with back

Damn, I can barely get through 2 20 rep sets... you've got 3... then you hit the hacks?

You are made of steel.

 

[SOUPERMAN]

my typical routine is such
decline press 20/15/12/10/8/6-8
hammer strength curls 12/10-12/10/8-10
hammer strength single leg ext 12/12/10/8
seated calve raises 4x25
smith squats or hack squats 3 sets 10-12 reps

i also do SLDL on back day, leg curls and calve raises same as on leg day....

i really want to start to do squats but i've never done them, i've had back problems and i am a little timid about doing them. i was thinking about doing box squats as an introduction, any thoughts?

today was leg day and i have to help a friend move tommorow its gonna hurt

 

[Deleted member 33117]

Here is my leg split for the week...btw I don't spend more than 20 minutes on legs, and I train back the same days...but mine are taping out at 28.5"... depleted of carbs. I get to carb up in the morning tomarrow.
Sunday
Squat 5/8 15 seconds between (enough time to strip two plates off)
Partial Deadlift 5 (rest-pause 10 seconds between reps)
Donkey Calf Raise 26/17 15 seconds between (have to use the entire stack)

Tuesday
Squat 5/4 15 seconds between
Deadlift 3 (rest/pause 10 seconds apart)
Legext static hold, one set
Leg curl static hold, one set
Seated Calf Raise 22

Thursday
Leg Press 18/11/6 15 seconds between sets
Calf Press on leg press machine 32/14 10 seconds between sets.