Leg Training On Easter.
My Easter weekend was spent traveling and not really celebrating anything except for the Wisconsin Badger’s victory of over Kansas State. Typically I fill out a bracket or two in the office betting pool but this year I haven’t been following any basketball at all really. My free time is spent in the library and many of my weekend are spent traveling giving me virtually no down time. Hopefully it pays off in the end and recent events have pointed to that, but I can’t get into any details yet.
While traveling around the Chicago suburbs I do make it a point to train and stick to my diet. This includes typically packing about 10 meals with me in a cooler and staying at hotels with full kitchens if possible. Also, my home away from home gym is now XSport Fitness.
Today I trained at the XSport in Arlington Heights, Il close to Schaumburg and Woodfield Mall. I would have come back home the night before but gym was closed so I figured I’d stay the night away and go to a great gym sneaking in a training session. Fortunately as I travel around and since I work for Gaspari many gym owners are getting to know me and don’t make me pay for a guest pass. That’s pretty cool if you ask me and it doesn’t go unappreciated.
Today’s leg session was pretty brutal. Typically I start of my workouts with about 20 minutes on a stationary bike to really get the blood perfused in the target quads and hamstrings. Since I’m getting bigger and pushing much more weight, I take this very seriously as I don’t want to risk injury with the amount of weight I’m moving. If I did, I’d be really screwed.
You’ll also notice I typically with lower reps and higher poundages moving onto higher reps and lighter poundages towards the end of the training session. The reason being, the first two movements I reserve for strength building and the last few I reserve for eliciting as much hyperemia as possible. The goal is to force as much blood into every single fiber as possible. When I tend to lift REAL heavy the duration of the workout it just doesn’t help me grow the way this strategy has. That’s the key here, I’m as strong as I want to be, but I’m not as big as I want to be.
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Leg Press: 1260lbs x 10 x 4
Hack Squat: 540lbs x 6 x 4
Leg Extensions: 300lbs x 10 x 3
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Lying Leg Curl: 200lbs x 8 x 3
Standing Single Leg Curls: 90lbs x failure x 2/2
Single Leg Extensions: 100lbs x failure x 2/2
Stiff Legged Deadlifts: 225lbs x 25 x 3
April 2, 2008 at 4:08 pm
That’s heavy. Post a photo of your legs after that workout.