How far out from your show will you stop training legs?
To be honest, the concept of “one must stop training legs a week or so out from a show in order to get all the cuts and separation, etc” concept blows my mind when the same isn’t applied to the entire upper body.
So, I’m curious if @The_Mighty_Stu is having you cease with leg training around now or not. If so, I’d love a more educated explanation as to why this is necessary.
As everybody else keeps saying, you’re look great, man. Only a weekish of hell left before the first show!
IMy last leg workout was on Tuesday. That’s where it fell anyway and peak weak is already starting Monday. There can be one superset for legs in the first depletion workout on Monday but it’s not required. My legs do not get blurred the way some others do but I’m done with leg training for now considering my legs have taken a beating I’ve never experienced before, from leg sessions, daily pre-breakfast walks, and intervals! Plus my legs are quite veiny and hells no Im not risking losing that! Ask people what goes on with legs pre-contest and some will tell you it’s horrible, especially that we locomote with our legs everyday as well, not our upper body. @humblelifter
Some peoples legs get blurred from training for some time and fatigued overly pumped and swollen legs are VERY hard to pose with, and EVERY pose involves the legs flexed as opposed to some upper body poses in which some muscles are SORT of relaxed (e.g. Lat spread).
Thanks for the kind words as always! We’ll see what happens!
Yeah this part is so true. It’s hard to explain how much your legs really are f’d up until you go through it. Between a weekly leg workout and two interval sessions it’s tough enough, and when the cardio reaches the point when you’re doing it every day, in addition to the leg workouts and hit, they are abused in a way the upper body isn’t, literally never having a chance to recover pretty much from the moment you start the prep. Combined with poor sleep (=poor recovery) stopping the leg training is really helpful to let the muscles relax and see the lines, as well as overall mental and physical benefit of not feeling like half of your body is about to fall off. It’s kind of similar to how you pump up before getting on stage, there’s a fine line between pumping and getting blood moving enough to look full, hard and veiny, but if you pump up too much or with weights that are too heavy, you’ll lose the extreme definition and might look more swollen or puffy.
has Arash been asking you for tips on how to get shredded?
EDIT: it’s actually a really cool photo because it shows you how much bigger IFBB pros are than normal folks. Even taking a pro and putting him next to a guy who’s in really good shape, the difference is just crazy.
People don’t realize how big some IFBB pros are. Arash is 5’10 and weighed in at about 204 (if I recall correctly) for the Olympia. Think about how many online posters are the same height and think they’ll compete at 230+ lbs -lol.
There have been some very vocal and delusional folks on these sites over the years. So long as they never step up and actually compete, they can rant and rave and make ridiculous predictions to their hearts’ content without anyone ever saying they were wrong -lol
I paid the federation’s photographer for video and photos of me during the show and some backstage and before and after I believe he does also. There will be plenty of video and pics taken by my friends and family, I am sure.
I have a couple of them and one is a thicker fleece-type material for those cold winters 
