Leg Day Motivator!

[mikos]

I am deffinately one of those people who really dislike training their legs!! Even tho I know it is a MUST to gain proper size it so difficult to get my head in the right frame of mind. I try listening to heavy rock or something, Metallica etc - that seems to help for some reason lol

[Paul_2_Oh]

Step 1: 1.5x normal carbs for the day
Step 2: 15 minute stairmaster warmup
Step 3: Put on Dubstep (or anything with strong bass/drum beats)
Step 4: Obliterate legs with supersets, drop sets, partial reps at the end, etc.
Step 5: HIIT on a stationary bike

Good luck walking normal for 5 days. Acquire big legs.

[penny0527]

How often do you see those guys at the gym that are constantly training their chest and arms. Eventually those individuals become topheavy and have to resort to wearing pants to the gym everyday to cover up their chicken legs. The fact of the matter is, guys typically do not enjoy training their legs. It hurts in and out of the gym with little nocitable change. If you don't already know this, the harder you train your legs the more testosterone your body will produce! More testosterone means bigger gains for your upper body!

I used to HATE training my legs, now it is by far my favorite training day of the week. Leg day prep usually begins the night before, I try to get an extra hour or two of sleep and mentally commit to an absolute war with my body the next day. You can't go in and half ass leg day! You have to go in and give 110% or you might as well just go home. I have nearly passed out and thrown up in between sets, then got right back into the fight. Leg day will slowly grow on you and you will walk out of the gym with a feeling unlike any other. You will feel gratified, I promise!

Agreed. So often I see men with a huge upper body and skinny legs. Not pretty.

Women are the same. It's much easier for us to work and develop muscle in our lower body. How many women do you see with minimal upper body muscle? It's all about balance.

[SCYankeeJay]

I love walking out of the gym on after leg training and feeling wrecked. It's priceless!

I love the wobbly leg feeling that I get for an hour or so after I hit my legs hard. My inability to walk normal is like a trophy of a good leg workout. i love it.

[ednaaard]

Still an underweight and weak skinny guy but squatting real deep so my arse nearly touches the floor with veins popping out my forehead almost as if they're going to explode and the feeling of nearly blacking out when I've finished the squat whilst having to hold the squat rack to steady myself until it passes makes me feels ten times stronger than the top heavy guys not 10ft from me doing hammer curls wearing tracksuit bottoms to cover up their chicken legs.

No one at my gym squats.

[agentblack14]

I used to hate training legs because I would always feel an uncomfortable pain when I did squats...Eventually, I told myself that I have to push myself further. After I got back into making my leg days more efficient, I look forward to leg days now. It's the hardest day of the week, but I love it.

On another note though, it does kill me when people see the change in my upper body, but then ask me what happened to my legs...lol

[CATCH17]

I've been doing legs for the last year and I still hate it but it's a challenge.


Did legs last Thursday and im still sore Monday.


LOL at the top heavy dudes wearing pants year round. We have some of those at my gym.

[deveritt]

I have always preferred leg days, but maybe that's because my upper body has always been incredibly weak :\

[DarrenConroy]

Step 1: 1.5x normal carbs for the day
Step 2: 15 minute stairmaster warmup
Step 3: Put on Dubstep (or anything with strong bass/drum beats)
Step 4: Obliterate legs with supersets, drop sets, partial reps at the end, etc.
Step 5: HIIT on a stationary bike

Good luck walking normal for 5 days. Acquire big legs.

I like it! I will give this a shot and get back to you for sure!

[DarrenConroy]

I've been doing legs for the last year and I still hate it but it's a challenge.


Did legs last Thursday and im still sore Monday.


LOL at the top heavy dudes wearing pants year round. We have some of those at my gym.

I love those guys! I used to be one of those guys until I read about Arnold cutting up all of his workout pants to expose his calves. It is indeed all about balance!

[DarrenConroy]

I have always preferred leg days, but maybe that's because my upper body has always been incredibly weak :\

It's all good buddy, as you continue working out you will notice changes. I would suggest taking progress pictures between every two weeks to a month. You see yourself everyday so sometimes it's hard to see progress. Good luck!

[xmtowntyx]

Leg day is my fav day of my workout schedule!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And tomorrow is LEG DAY FOR ME! But really if you hate leg day and or never have a leg day, you really need to. Squat is the most important exercise when it comes to working out legs. It uses almost every major muscle group in your body. Pretty much everything from the shoulders and down is being used. And don't ever ever ever ever squat with a "smith machine", you're cheating yourself. That machine should have a huge sign on that says NOT FOR SQUATTING!

[akframerman]

I LOVE legs!! I've only ben in the gym for about four months but i always look forward to wednesdays

[DarrenConroy]

I LOVE legs!! I've only ben in the gym for about four months but i always look forward to wednesdays

Wednesday is when I train legs as well! Must be something about Wednesday's... Glad to hear that you have been in for four months and that you're still going strong.. Keep it up!

[DarrenConroy]

Legs are toast!! Not going to be able to move tomorrow and I love it!!

[BlueSasquatch]

Legs days suck, but they grow on you. I have been having a hard time with my squat increasing, turns out box squats were the way to go, years ago I would only go down half way, and then recently I've been going ATG all the time, well the box puts me right where I need to be, feeling power and seeing more gains now. I've also had good progress with band squats, mixing it up is key, just like any lift.

Just don't go bashing the chicken leg guys to hard, while they lack in legs, the chests and arms on some of those dudes are impressive, squats or not when someone throws up 400 lbs on bench you gotta hand it to them.

[chobar22]

four days after doing legs and i still feel them a little bit. awesome

[bonacris]

Legs on monday is the way to go... Monday seems to be International Chest Day so nobody is ever in the squat rack or using any of the machines..

[DarrenConroy]

Legs on monday is the way to go... Monday seems to be International Chest Day so nobody is ever in the squat rack or using any of the machines..

I have noticed that myself.. Not sure why.. I just think that Monday's get way too crowded in the gym (my gym anyway) and I have trouble navigating through and keeping a good pump. I set Monday as one of my off days for that very reason...

[DarrenConroy]

Legs days suck, but they grow on you. I have been having a hard time with my squat increasing, turns out box squats were the way to go, years ago I would only go down half way, and then recently I've been going ATG all the time, well the box puts me right where I need to be, feeling power and seeing more gains now. I've also had good progress with band squats, mixing it up is key, just like any lift.

Just don't go bashing the chicken leg guys to hard, while they lack in legs, the chests and arms on some of those dudes are impressive, squats or not when someone throws up 400 lbs on bench you gotta hand it to them.

Nice to hear that you found something that works for you! Sometimes it does take some trial and error before you find that winning recipe. For you being 6'6 I'm sure every lift has it's challenges. Good on you!

[CATCH17]

Today is my squat day. Not pumped about it at all but it will still get dominated.

[penny0527]

Legs are toast!! Not going to be able to move tomorrow and I love it!!

I worked my glutes amd legs on Saturday. I had to take a muscle relaxer on Sunday in order to function at work on Monday.

[BigLoughlin]

Hated legs until an upper body injury, for 45 days if I went to the gym all I could do was legs, core and cardio (and I hate cardio so that's out). Now i'm hopping around getting my dog excited 45 minutes before my departure to the gym on legs days. Deadlifts are absolute gold, the wobbly-legged feeling is so great to me, coworkers ask what's wrong and I just spout out my progress numbers like a maniac, now they know just to avoid me on the recovery days. Ol crazy legs through the office make mondays OK in my books.

[DarrenConroy]

I worked my glutes amd legs on Saturday. I had to take a muscle relaxer on Sunday in order to function at work on Monday.

That's when you know you killed it!

[DarrenConroy]

Hated legs until an upper body injury, for 45 days if I went to the gym all I could do was legs, core and cardio (and I hate cardio so that's out). Now i'm hopping around getting my dog excited 45 minutes before my departure to the gym on legs days. Deadlifts are absolute gold, the wobbly-legged feeling is so great to me, coworkers ask what's wrong and I just spout out my progress numbers like a maniac, now they know just to avoid me on the recovery days. Ol crazy legs through the office make mondays OK in my books.

I too live the wobbly feeling, I think it's just the fact that you know you are pushing your body to the absolute max. I wish I had discovered dead's years ago! Front squats and dead lifts are two lifts that I absolutely love to hate. I can't get enough!

[DarrenConroy]

[DarrenConroy]

Dead lifts tomorrow!!! I never thought I would be so excited to reap so much havoc on my body.. Today was a rest day so I am going in strong and ready for war!!

[BlueSasquatch]

5x5 @ 335 Squats today.

Legs had the strength but my body kept folding, friend convinced me to try a belt

put up 395, looking for 4 plates on Friday. Max before this (week ago) was 365.

Belt seems to be what I was missing, opinions on belts? Are they a crutch? Use them only for max? All the time? Never?

[shorkey]

Squat till u puke...






























































And then squat some more...

[DarrenConroy]

/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Great Quote!! I've tried it! Part of me kind of liked it!