Sassy... Shadow!

[Evil_Frisky]

Sassy you and I had a discussion about Figure.. the long lean look and my *ahem* quite puffy quads.. LOL! So I'm not opposed to trying to lean these babies out a bit more to stay in the game.

I've dropped the squats and the SLDL's .. completely. I've found that my overall leg development sky rockets when I do these... I've played with heavy weights low reps.. light weights high reps and get the same results.. they have continued to grow.

My plan now... (and stop me please if this is all wrong).. Is to only hit legs hard once every two weeks. I'm gonna stick to extensions, curls, step ups and lunges on week one and then week two just two exercises and then 20-30 mins on the bike. I find the bike hits them HARD and i'm hoping this will help lean them out.

Everything else is growing in proportion but my trunks.. LOL.

Any suggestions? Is this even feasible?

 

[The Shadow]

hmmm....I think that sounds fine....as a matter of fact..I think I suggested that you drop all leg work and simply use HIIT and HILL work to keep them in shape,

 

[Evil_Frisky]

hmmm....I think that sounds fine....as a matter of fact..I think I suggested that you drop all leg work and simply use HIIT and HILL work to keep them in shape,

Yes we did talk about this and believe it or not I kept mass with the sprints. I've bassackwards legs.. I know. I've not tried the HILL.. not sure what that is.

The only time I've ever found I've actually loss size in my legs is distance running.. but I loss muscle EVERYWHERE and thats where my last cutting ended in disaster and the 'soft' look.

I'm still gonna do the sprints on the tail end of the this dieting. Right now i'm just doing low intensity steady state 45mins.

 

[The Shadow]

HILLS just means stairs etc.


I think you will be fine dropping all weight bearing exercises......


if you start to lose a bit....add s sprint sessiion each week

 

[Sassy69]

And continue to monitor yourself not by looking at your quad development but at the overall symmetry between your shoulder line, waist line & legs. You want a tight "V" on your upper body, but more w/ the V being drawn by the caps on your delts than by lats. From the waist down, you pretty much want no big quad sweep but rather a tight line.

Here's the girl who won this little local show in Figure. She's got a gymnastics background and w/ some size she could easily blow away BB, but that's an approaching ideal look for a figure shape if you have some beef on your legs.

http://www.dotphoto.com/GuestViewImage.asp?AID=2294939&IID=73217222&INUM=110&ICT=251&IPP=30

In this pic, you can see the difference in leg development between the two girls who won trophies. The blonde girl is definitely a more petite build while the other girl has hella developed muscles. But I think in a higher level show, the stronger build will always win. But if you have muscle, then that's where you want to be with it in figure.

 

[Daisy_Girl]

hmmm....I think that sounds fine....as a matter of fact..I think I suggested that you drop all leg work and simply use HIIT and HILL work to keep them in shape,

I have the same legs as you so Frisky. I keep mass there no matter what.

But I agree with Shadow here. I would totally drop leg work - at least weighted leg work. For awhile, I only did plyometrics and HIIT for legs. It worked very nice. I really like walking lunges (no weights), backward lunges (no weights), one-legged squats (no weights, basically a lunge with back leg raised), and step ups.

Maybe sprinting HIIT isn't the best choice if it isn't giving you the results. Why not trying the Stepmill, hills (like Shadow said) or outside bleachers stairs.

 

[Evil_Frisky]

thanks...

I'm gonna drop all leg work.. stick with the stairs and no weight lunges and step ups. Gonna keep and eye on symmetry.

Sassy.. I can't open that picture.

 

[Sassy69]

thanks...

I'm gonna drop all leg work.. stick with the stairs and no weight lunges and step ups. Gonna keep and eye on symmetry.

Sassy.. I can't open that picture.

Look about half way down the page: http://www.georgia-bodybuilding.com/

NPC Atlantic USA Bodybuilding & Figure Results 3-19-2005

The girl in the turquoise suit next to the guy on the right side of the photo. She won overall figure.

 

[Firecracker]

I'm in the same boat. My legs are starting to look like beasts!

I wanna keep symmetry, but I LOVE working my legs!! Don't know if I can give it up!

 

[Evil_Frisky]

Look about half way down the page: http://www.georgia-bodybuilding.com/

NPC Atlantic USA Bodybuilding & Figure Results 3-19-2005

The girl in the turquoise suit next to the guy on the right side of the photo. She won overall figure.

She blew them away!