A tale of sissy squats and another assorted madness
Hi everyone!
Because i am not as busy at work i have the time to put down another training blog.
Now today, as has been the case over the last few weeks, i have been on an ongoing mission to increase leg mass. To date, i have not had much success. As i have mentioned in previous blogs, since i have altered leg training a few things have happened:
i)My legs have gotten stronger
ii) they look more toned
iii) They have gotten more vascular
But
To date there has been no real increase in leg mass.
The other annoying thing is that ever since i have changed my routine, everything has been hurting, EXCEPT for legs! Last week i repped out doing squats and my legs were like jelly at the end, i could hardly walk at the end! And yet, no soreness the next day.
Still, i am not one to give up so easy, so rather then change my leg routine again, i decided i was going to take things to the extreme: Basically, i was going to do an all out, half an hour effort: very little (if any) rest between exercises, and just work my quads until i could do no more.
So what i did, I put a moderate weight on the squat rack and just kept repping, after i could do no more, i move immediately over to the leg press and did the same, then straight over to the seated leg extension for more of the same and finished off with a weighted set of sissy squats. Now by this stage, my legs were feeling like they were on fire! But i wasn’t done yet. I called over one of the gym instructors called jeff and said to him straight up: "Jeff, i am just going to keep repping out on one final set of sissy squats, basically if you can, catch me, because i am seriously going to keep going until i can no longer stand up"
So Jeff (his eyes wide) agreed. By this stage, even though there where not that many people in the gym when i was working out, most stopped to have a look at the madness that was about to follow. So i picked up a 25kg weight, held it to my chest, and started.
At about the 10 rep mark, particularly after all i had done previously, my legs started to burn
At the 20 rep mark, my legs started to feel like jelly
But i was determined, I was going to rep out till that quadricep was no longer able to fire
At the 30 rep mark, I was starting to see stars, but by this stage because of my lunatic intensity, everyone was shouting words of encouragment.
In the end, i busted out 39 reps before people thankfully caught me. I was exhausted. Nor could i stand, the quadricep was completely and utterly worked till failure.
The funny thing is, i am only a few hours removed from that training session, and finally, for the first time, my quads are finally starting to ache! Now obviously i am not advocating this type of training day to day, i mean, it was extreme! but the point that i am trying to make is that it worked, and sometimes, you have to be able to push yourself well beyond your limits in order to achieve the results that you seek.
Well, i’m off to eat and recuperate! I will be very curious to see just how sore my quads pull up tommorow! At any rate, i will blog it and keep you all posted.
Remember, train hard, train heavy
The good doctor
