How do YOU warm up for leg day.

[Khromosone]

Post em.

[tacoop]

Post em.

Light cardio follow by some high rep squatting with progessively heavier weights and some light stretching.

[Phil2009]

First exercise I do is squats. So I squat 50% of what im meant to be squatting as a warmup

[jdmalm123]

Squat

BW x15
50% x5-10
75% x5
100% x5
90% x5

[HamMach1]

I usually just stretch out and then do like 10-15 or so reps of squats with just the bar to get the blood flowing and muscles warm.

[Khromosone]

Anyone use dynamic stretching beforehand?

[anonymous]

Post em.

Leg Extensions
Leg Curls
: stretching :

THEN squats, calf raises, etc.

[Stteven]

Light cardio (~3 min jog)
Light leg extensions 12x2 (warm up knee)
Warm up with 45's (135lbs. 2 x 10)
Begin squating.

[ZzW3iZ]

1000 meters on the row machine, warms up legs and back. Then I'll do a light set of 50 easy reps with squat to really get some blood in there. Stretching as well before I start my working sets

[Emmortal]

Some dynamic stretching for about 15 minutes of the glutes, hips, hams, calves and quads. I do a thorough warmup on leg extensions before moving into any heavy weights.

[The_Animal11]

12 minute walk to the gym, 5 minute warm up on bike, into squats, something like this:

BWx10
barx10
95x7
135x5
Work sets

[Freakzila]

Ride Bike for 5 min
stretch... Hams, quads, glutes, calves thouroghly (spelling?, I tried)
3 sets Leg extensions 15-25 reps
3 sets leg curls 15-25 reps

I always feel that I have to have a really good warmup before I go into squats.

[chazzy1864]

I do full body workouts, with squats (if it is on that day) being my last real exercise. All I'll do is do lighter sets of squats before hand. Depending on how I pyramid I might have 2 warm up sets, before jumping to a 3RM, or I might have 4-5 "warm ups" (pyramiding up) to jump to a 4RM.

[keepthechange]

i warm up with light squats

[crupiea]

Air squats - 4 sets of 12.

Then move to the bar for 2 sets of 5 reps each.

Then ramp up the weight to the working sets.

I do sets of 5 and I like to work my way up. I dont need an injury for 5 minutes of blowing off warming up.

[Will_Purity]

15 Mins low intensity on a stationary bike.
20 Body weight squats.

After that i'm good to go.

[spot_skater]

2 12 rep sets on leg extension machine, to warm up knees and get blood moving a bit.

Then a 10 or 15 rep set of back squats with 135 before my real leg work.

[rockeo]

just mentally prepared for the WO - consisting of believing on better form and more weight !!!

[RyGuy08]

5 mins on stationary bike or 5 mins of skipping.

Then, squats...

BW x10
95lbs x 10
135lbs x10
then into work sets.

[essential222]

Brisk walk 1k to gym, squat bar 15 times, squat 60 8 times, then into workign squat weight

[jondog50]

superset leg extention with leg curl lots of reps for about 3 sets then few light leg press sets then a few warm ups of my first exercise

[Bigzperson]

10 mins on the elliptical, level 10. Then I get right into it.

[johnnygun207]

damn you guys go nuts warmin up. i'll do some dynamic stretching for 10 mins or so, run 6.5 mph on a 1.0 incline on the tread for 10 mins, then head over to the squat rack, bust out a couple of low weight sets, and it's on from there.. on top of that, i do HIIT 3-4x a week, even if it's the day before or of a leg day... for some reason , i don't stay sore for long at all anymore, not even a full day.. prolly has a lot to do with the glutamine i'm taking.

[Conius]

2.5 minutes on the elliptical, i just hit quick start so its a pretty low setting.

Stretch my legs for about 2 more minutes, the key stretch i do here is a strange one though. I assume the squat position in a corner to avoid seeing all the weird looks and put my arms between my legs and use my elbows to push out my knees. I then wiggle around a bit for around 30 seconds, lifting up/side to side etc to get my waist fully ready.

I then do about 5 reps with just the bar then 10 reps with a light weight.

Then its go time.

[R_Bid]

slow box squats. my warmup sets are 135, 185, 225. my 'real' leg work is my top sets of box squats, and the leg press marathon that follows them...

[MrCarrot]

Cross trainer for 5 minutes, 20 rep squats with the empty bar and some stretching

[LS2Stew]

I walk 15 minutes to the gym. That is also my warmdown (backwards).

[Big Arm Big Pay]

jog for 5 mins then stretch

[jf1]

walk for 10minutes to get the blood and oxygen flowing
20 reps with 95lbs...

[flipthetrainer]

I take an awesome pill, punch the devil in the face and kick god in the balls!!! Rawr!!

No seriously though, I just do some prisoner squats and about 10 minutes of cardio warmup. If I'm squating heavy I do explosive jump squats.