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Leg Exercise Tips for Faster Results
By admin | August 4, 2008
Leg exercise is something that most people hate. After all, working your leg muscles effectively is pretty brutal. That’s why you rarely see anyone train their legs hard and even fewer doing barbell squats.
This is a shame because nothing is as effective for building muscle, losing fat and getting in great shape as working your leg muscles hard with intense leg exercise.
I thought I’d share my most recent leg workout with you. It’s short but intense and effective. I performed this leg workout yesterday. I started out with barbell squats.
After my warm up sets I performed 3 sets of 5 reps each with 2 1/2 minutes of rest between sets.
Now comes the really tough part. You can do this on a hack squat machine or leg press.
You’re going to perform the leg exercise one leg at a time. Pick a weight that will allow you to get somewhere around 20 - 25 reps per leg.
Starting with one leg, perform a set to failure. Once you hit failure go directly to the other leg and do the same thing. Then go back to the first leg, then the second. Do this for 4 sets.
Here’s how it looked for me on Thursday. I started with my left leg and it went like this:
(L) 23 x (R) 23 x (L) 9 x (R) 9 x (L) 5 x (R) 5 x (L) 4 x (R) 4
I took a one minute rest and then, using the same weight, did a set with both legs to failure. In this case, I managed to grind out 51 non-stop non-lock reps.
Let me tell you, your legs muscles will be burning with lactic acid, not to mention the shaking. You’ll work up quite a sweat. The good news is that it’s a short workout and a very effective one.
If you’re in a rut with your weight training, try giving this leg workout a try.
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