Thread: Chicken Legs

Hi All,

The title doesn't lie.

Can any body give me some good tips about how to get my legs to respond as the rest of my body has been?

I have started to train legs twice a week and I have been doing-

- 3 sets of 10, 8 then 6 reps for each exercise, squats, press, extensions, curls then 2 calf exercises.

Any advice or corrections to the way I am training would be appreciated

are you pyramiding the weight on your squats, and lean the press seat back to make sure your getting plenty of movement, superset your exetensions after your squats, deadlift before you curl, and high volume for your calve exercises seem to work best.

my 2c worth

bigock

also give yourself at least 48 hors between sessions. i like to do legs monday after two days rest, and thursday after wednesday is also a rest day.

bigock

PS intensity is your best friend when training legs and good fornm is more important than ever when training lower body

Rossi

I suggest you try squats for 15 0r 20 reps. You can pause and breath deeply between reps towards the end of the set. Go for not more than 2 working sets, once a week. Gradually increase the weight every week and you will get bigger legs.

Regards

Adrian See

Originally posted by bigock
are you pyramiding the weight on your squats, and lean the press seat back to make sure your getting plenty of movement, superset your exetensions after your squats, deadlift before you curl, and high volume for your calve exercises seem to work best.

my 2c worth

bigock

Yes I am pyramiding.

The supersets sound like the way to go, Its leg night tonight so I'll be starting straight away.

Thanks for that buddy.

I'll tell you right now, your over training. Once a week for legs, as with any other body part. Supersets will worsen the situation.

Anyhow, try a 5x5 routine.

5 sets of 5 reps for squats.
Same for stiff leg deadlifts.

Chose a weight that allows you to only get say, 5,4,4,3 & 2 reps for instance. When you can do 5x5, up the weight.

You can finish with some lunges or leg extensions if you wish.

This ain't a flame, but if your lifting enough weight, you should still be sore 3 or 4 days later.