Need some leg muscle! advice?
I started taking sizeon and I’m stacking it with superpump. I’m not finding that superpump gives me as much of an energy blast at the gym as the NO Explode did. This is my first time taking creatine though so I’m excited to see some results.
I have upped the intensity of my leg workouts. I’m just loading the plates on and going till failure (as much as i can without a workout partner)…till the vessels are popping out in my neck and my face is red. Gotta love it 
Just looking for some advice on some quad/hammy workouts. Right now I’m doing squats (wide stance), leg press (close together), leg extensions, and hack squats (on some days). my reps are 12-10-8-6, always warm up with a light set of 12 before these and add weight for each set. I usually superset leg extensions and leg press.
There are so many methods to working quads, if you have some ass kicking exercises, please share!!
Hope you all are having a great week, TRAIN HARD!
February 13, 2008 at 4:11 pm
If you “really” want to work your quads and only if you are serious; do leg extensions …one leg at a time and do 12 to 15 reps using just one leg and then switch and do 12 to 15 with the other leg and then without any extra rest switch again and keep doing this until you have done 4 sets on each leg of 12 to 15 reps or you have hit absolute failure. Oh yeah, another thing and this is the way I have all of my clients do their leg exercises, when you are at the top of each rep, hold the weight (contraction) for a 3 count and then let the weight come down slowly
Stand up and walk (if you still can) over to the dumbbell rack and pick up a pair and start doing lunges. You can do them standing and/or walking and you should do at least 4 sets of 15 lunges with each leg and if you are doing them right you will get a wicked leg-burning workout.
Now if you have enough energy set up a barbell with the right amount of weight and start doing dead lifts. These little babies will work your hams like you can’t believe and after doing your one-legged extensions and your lunges you may end up calling for your ancestors to come take you away…but you did say you wanted a leg workout didn’t you.
At this point if you have the ability go over to the lying hamstring curl and lay down…that should feel real good about now, but I am going to take all the fun out of it for you. Hook your heels under the pad just like you normally do for your hamstring curls but instead of lying there flat, prop yourself up on your elbows and while staying in that position do 3 to 4 sets of 12 to 15 reps of hamstring curls. Along with the new position make sure that when you are at the top of each rep, (ah, crap here it comes again) hold the weight (contraction) for a 3 count and then let the weight come down slowly. Chances are you will have to lower the weight down from what you normally use because doing ham-curls this way really targets and focuses on the hams in a whole different way. After you do sets of these you should be done or done in…one or the other.
6 weeks of adding and doing these with your other leg exercises and you will see big differences and have one smokin’ set of wheels…guaranteed!
March 3, 2008 at 7:34 am
I like To do front squats they will be alot lighter then your normal squats they are a little weird at first but once you get them they are awesome….they work the front quad completely and they added some detail to my legs and size…i also recommend walking or normal lunges with a bar for the warm up then add weight as needed…im sure you can figure out hom many sets and reps you prefer to do…
Cheers!
March 12, 2008 at 5:55 am
One thing I found worked great was doing sets of 12 and having the first 6 reps at regular tempo, then slowing down the next 6 very slow. Squats I spent 5 seconds going down and up. Or, for strength, do a 5 count all the way down, pause for a second, then explode back up to the top. You get more stimulation from the longer tension time, plus it greatly improves coordination. Slow (3 out/3 in) on leg extensions also works great. Romanian Deadlift partials coming back up from as far down as you can go with good form up to about 70-80% of the range of motion is also good for the back/glutes/hams. Then if you really wanna hammer the quads, try doing front squats with the same close stance you use on the leg press. Lastly, a lot of people neglect the adductors and abductors. You can hit those by doing more of a power squat stance, or just isolating those muscles on the machines. If all else fails, go for the single leg negative leg press. Use your 2nd leg to push the weights back up, but have the individual leg overloaded to where even fighting it takes 3-5 seconds to let the weight down. It’ll burn, but grow size very quickly.
Hope that gives you some ideas!