Training Legs

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[quote]schism45 wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]schism45 wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
I forgot to mention SteelyD. Those are some powerful legs…but I was still expecting more the way people were calling others out.

It doesn’t seem like most on this board even have legs bigger than 28-29" around.
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Funny how when you’re mocking 29" legs when you’ve quoted yourself slightly over 30…

Unless you consider your leg development poor for the amount of years you’ve been lifting, there’s a problem there.[/quote]

WTF? Who was mocking 29" legs? I just congratulated steely on having good leg development when his are 28". Your post doesn’t even make sense.

Look, we get it, some of you like responding just to see your post count go up so you direct some lame ass post this way. It got old about 6 years ago.

Do better next time.[/quote] You were talking about how “most on this board don’t even have 28-29 inch legs.” This sounds like you’re deriding 28-29 inch legs. Since you aren’t far from this, it comes across funny.

If this wasn’t your intent, then there’s no problem.

(And lol@“bumping my post count”. You got me - I really wanted that 47th post within a year of being here.)

And not to be completely off-topic:

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They’re actually ~28.25 here, not 28.5, but it was hard to hold the tape measure in place with one hand while taking a picture and the measure got slightly crinkled.[/quote]

Guy, my legs need work even at whatever they measure now. I would expect most serious bodybuilders to be able to get to at least 30" if carrying a similar amount of muscle mass, thus the comment. Your response is the one that is strange because who the fuck considers themselves a bodybuilder but also thinks the development they have now needs no improvement?

While 28" may not be small, unless the guy is in contest shape, it isn’t “great” either, especially if you take height and conditioning into consideration. Once again, if you show no definition what-so-ever, the measurement itself can’t really be claimed anyway.

You basically called me out for cheering on someone else’s development who had 28" quads. His quads look a hell of a lot more filled out and aesthetic than your own even at similar measurements…which is why the number alone doesn’t matter as much.

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only leg pic i got is on my avatar, i dont know how to post it up on the thread though as im a noob here.

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Thanks for the suggestions, I have already started putting them to use (yesterday). I guess I never really thought of lunges as a glute/ham exercise. I always figured that split squats should be close to them but whenever I did them my glutes/hams killed the next day. Maybe I sucked at doing lunges because of all the pain I was in trying to them? Who knows, it doesn’t really matter at this point, I just don’t need to do them.

Akuma- It’s funny you mention starting from the hole for squats. I have noticed that both my squat and deadlift are weakest close to the floor. I tries doing anderson squats in my rack, but I always felt a little off and like I couldn’t get into position. I then went to low box squats. I have been pausing at the bottom to basically let my legs relax and then firing up (while trying not to rock forward to get a little extra momentum).

I think I am going to keep trying the anderson squats to make sure it’s not my lack of correct form that makes them feel awkward. I do legs twice a week so I will do box squats on one day, and anderson on the other.

X - my legs suck and that is why there are no pictures. I don’t brag about lifts or call people out because I have no business doing so. 28" legs??? Mine are 24", if you can believe it, when I started they were about 19". I have made some progress, but have A LOT of work to do. I don’t look at it as work though.

MIM- the only thing that has impacted my growth was years of sitting at desks eating shitty food and avoiding exercise at all costs.

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BUMPing. Legs are difficult, most people lack legs, most train them wrong. There has to be some questions out there, or some tips, or something other than this nonsense dribble. I dont care for the fucking X Witch hunt that happens in every other thread. This is the bodybuilding threads GDI, i want BODYBUILDING shit in here.

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[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
BUMPing. Legs are difficult, most people lack legs, most train them wrong. There has to be some questions out there, or some tips, or something other than this nonsense dribble.[/quote]

I’m pleasantly surprised that so many do lunges. I’ve primarily done bb back squat, most recently adding in close stance HS hack squat. I do believe, based on evidence here, that the simple lunge may take my leg development another step forward. That was lame.

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[quote]TheDudeAbides wrote:

[quote]Akuma01 wrote:
BUMPing. Legs are difficult, most people lack legs, most train them wrong. There has to be some questions out there, or some tips, or something other than this nonsense dribble.[/quote]

I’m pleasantly surprised that so many do lunges. I’ve primarily done bb back squat, most recently adding in close stance HS hack squat. I do believe, based on evidence here, that the simple lunge may take my leg development another step forward. That was lame.[/quote]

Very lame, but i appreciate the attempt at humor =p

Like i said though, Lunges are going to be fantastic for those of us in serious need of development in regards to the back of the leg. EVERY TIME i do lunges, my back end feels wrecked; Hamstrings and Glutes.

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Not at my best since I’ve been overseas, but I like the put up or shut up attitude.

I need to shut up.

Leg training though is going to be getting pretty crazy though! Akuma, lovin these threads homie.

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[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Not at my best since I’ve been overseas, but I like the put up or shut up attitude.

I need to shut up.

Leg training though is going to be getting pretty crazy though! Akuma, lovin these threads homie.[/quote]

Looking nice, especially up at the top of your rectus femoris.

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ARE YOU HAPPY NOW PX?!

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[quote]165StateChamp wrote:
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Yes. Good work. At least most of the guys in the T-Cell train their legs.

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Love this thread. Keep posting pics guys, and MiM. because we all know her quads trump most females anyday…most males too.

I would post a pic…but wait, no I wouldn’t because I hate my legs.

_Mel

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I’ve seen massive improvements in my legs since switching from BB back squats to front squats. For some reason my biomechanics doesnt allow me to back squat without tilting to far forward. My legs days now look like this;
Leg extensions - warm up (4x8, dont pay to much attention, just get some blood moving)
High box squats - high intensity, low volume (5x5)
Front squats - 2 warm up sets with 2 working (10 reps+)
RDL’s - 4 x 10
Lying leg curl - 5 x 6

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[quote]Austinsprodigy wrote:
I’ve seen massive improvements in my legs since switching from BB back squats to front squats. For some reason my biomechanics doesnt allow me to back squat without tilting to far forward. My legs days now look like this;
Leg extensions - warm up (4x8, dont pay to much attention, just get some blood moving)
High box squats - high intensity, low volume (5x5)
Front squats - 2 warm up sets with 2 working (10 reps+)
RDL’s - 4 x 10
Lying leg curl - 5 x 6

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Damn…new guy is putting some here to shame?

This can’t be all the legs on T-Nation.

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[quote]melanieamber12 wrote:
Love this thread. Keep posting pics guys, and MiM. because we all know her quads trump most females anyday…most males too.

I would post a pic…but wait, no I wouldn’t because I hate my legs.

_Mel[/quote]

Chicken.

…legs.

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My legs… I just started using higher reps for my legs in the hopes of bringing them up. At the largest they measure about 28.5. I spent too much time focusing on lower reps.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
This can’t be all the legs on T-Nation.[/quote]

Dude 90 % of the T-Nation population actually have no legs, so this really is all the legs on T-Nation.

Everyone else is going around like Eddie Murphy at the beginning of Trading Places on that wheelie board thing… lol…

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Many good advices here that I will have to give a shot.

Oh I have legs but they are hairy and unimpressive (28"1/2 inch) :

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Akuma what do you think of Dorian’s comments on lunges? He said they are a waste of time because there’s too much balance involved and you can’t use them intensively. Good advice or HIT crap? Can you really go to failure on them?

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[quote]Professor X wrote:
I forgot to mention SteelyD. Those are some powerful legs…but I was still expecting more the way people were calling others out.

It doesn’t seem like most on this board even have legs bigger than 28-29" around.

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LOL, thx. I had no idea what you were referring to so I had to go re-read.

I’m one of the weirdos who when I was younger actually focused on legs/back more because of what I was into-- hockey, crew.

The past few years I’ve really tried to catch up the ‘upper body’ and have done pretty basic leg days. That’s not to say I don’t crawl out of the gym on leg day, but I’ve never really worry about them-- just train them hard and they will grow. I worry about arms :wink:

I’m coming up on a 500#+ raw squat. I missed a raw 505 some weeks ago by about 3-4" (video in log) just a little high. The whole of my (quad) work has been squats, fr. squats, leg press and lunges. I just recently started doing leg extensions, so I think I’ll get something out of that.

[edit]: I think 28-29" legs are kind of like that 18/19/20 inch arm. OK, good potential, some work put in, but not MASSIVE. It’s a good start anyway.