Todays leg workout, please give advice?

[DWlifter]

I am 18, 6 foot and weigh 155. ive been lifting for 3 months. Today was the first day of free weight barbell squats, i used to do smith machine squats. But anyway, here is todays workout, please give me your opinions and advice on how to make it better.

I started with
SQUATS
warm up sets 115x10, 135x10
Working sets 155x10, 175x4, 175x5, 175x6, 175x4, 165x5, 155x10
Then i did
SLDL
warm up set 115x10
working sets 135x10, 155x9, 155x7, 145x10
Then i did
LEG PRESS
Pyramid sets 250x10, 300x10, 320x10, 340x10, 360x7, 370x6
Then I supersetted LEG EXTENSION with LEG CURL
LEG EXTENSION WAS 80X15, 90X11, 100X10
LEG CURL WAS 60X10, 60X7, 60X6

Legs took me exactly one hour.

Then i moved on to calves
I did STANDING CALVE RAISES 300x20 for 4 sets. then the gym closed so i could not to seated.

All together the workout took 1 hour and 8 minutes.

Please give advice on what to change.

[Jneves]

As a newbie I would keep the rep ranges higher. You will still see great gains and you will keeping the weight lower which is important to learning the proper technique. Also more reps = more practice so you will get better at the technique faster.

I am finally able to start squating again after a long lay off from injury and got advice from two professional trainers (not just local trainers but guys who have worked with elite athletes) Both had very similier advice:

-squat 2-3 times a week
-keep the reps around 10-15 per set with 2 or 3 sets each day
-Stick with this for 3-4 weeks
-Don't jump straight to extremly low reps (i.e. after a few weeks of 10-15 reps I will move to 6-10 rep range and eventually back to 3-5 rep range)

[RipStone]

your exercise selection looks pretty good. but as far as rep/set scheme, if you want to gain size and strength(i think that was your goal from past posts) i would recommend sticking with 1 weight for your worksets until you can do all your worksets with that weight. for example, lets say you aim to do 4 sets of 6 reps for squats. choose a weight you can do no more than 6 reps with but can at least do 4 reps with. lets says the first week looks like this...

185x6
185x6
185x4
185x4

the next time you do squats stick with 185lbs since you did not reach 6 reps with all your sets. so maybe week 2 would look like this...

185x6
185x6
185x6
185x6

since you got 6 reps for all work sets for week 3 increase the weight by 10lbs and start the process over.

[sword_]

Yeah for volume you want to stay in the 4-6 range. You are doing a lot of high volume right now. Also..that is a LOT of sets you are doing. Here is my leg routine

Squats (5 sets, 2 of them warmup)
Leg Press (2)
Good Mornings (3)
45 Degree Calf Raise (2)
Seated Calf Raise (2)

I do full deadlifts on back day. I am doing low rep, high weight to help create muscle hypertrophy. If I was only concerned with strength I would do something like you are doing.

To elaborate more, you could have one day out of the week dedicated to mass (low volume), and the next week you could have a workout dedicated to strength (high volume).

[lionheart21]

Dump the leg extensions and add in front squats.