Leg workout

[Maddogg69]

What do you guys do for legs and how often do you train them?
For me for example: I do on wednesdays
5x5 squats or 3x8
3x8 walking lunges
3x8 front squats
try to do around 4 sets 10,8,8,6 of deadlifts (or done friday)
Calve raise machine 3,10 or to failure. Holding 15 seconds on last reps (3x a week)

Am i doing too much?

 

[gearhead]

squats and leg press bro...

 

[Shrine]

squats and leg press bro...

Yup.. that's what I do

 

[saleen556]

Squat 6-8 sets
hack squats 4-5 sets
Seated and standing leg curls 4 or 5 sets each
standing and seated calf raises 5-6 sets each

Alternate workout

7-8 sets leg press 15-20 reps
3-4 leg extension
5-6 lying leg curl
3-4 straight leg DL
5-6 calf leg press

 

[stretch512]

All kinds of squats, sprints, cycling, don't use press or extensions much though.

 

[buddhabuilder]

I train legs twice a week. First time start with 5-6 sets of squats pyramiding up to failure around 6-8. Followed by extentions, presses, curls, and calves (All for 4 sets of 10-15). Second time I do DL instead of squats.

 

[Maddogg69]

squats and leg press bro...

How many sets/reps in my case to gain some size (worst part of my body) .. Some say heavy weight less reps, others say more reps less weight.

 

[vapor pro1]

My vote is for volume. 10 reps seems to be the best for me.

Warm/Pre exhaust with step ups and extensions
10 X 10 squats
5 X 20 presses
Cry yourself through some walking lunges and crawl your way home.

 

[JDizzle]

How many sets/reps in my case to gain some size (worst part of my body) .. Some say heavy weight less reps, others say more reps less weight.

I agree 10 works best for me, I always squat, standing leg press, and leg press seated.
Hamstring & leg extension w/ 15 seconds between
Adductor & abductor w/ 15 seconds rest between
Glute kick & lunges
Finish with bent leg dead lifts.

Everything 5x10
Start light (3/5 max) move up to max by set 3.

Im glad its only once a week cause it sucks to walk the next day

 

[big and swole]

Heavy squats followed by high volume lunges and leg press. Next week I will switch to high volume squats followed by heavy lunges and leg press.

 

[bgagne1110]

want strength? do some squats, keep track of your numbers, take periodic deload days/weeks dependent on your goals. if you're more concerned about hypertrophy I would get a good combination of both, but focus more on pumping as much blood as you can into the muscle (especially if your not natty, even if you are this should still be effective) What I like to do is go in and do a very light warmup using the lying hamstring machine and quad extension (1-2 high volume sets each) then I move on to my heavy compound movement such as squats, I keep my reps 6-8 with as much weight as I can while STILL maintaining good form and depth, i do 4-6 sets and then after that I pump the shit out of them - lightweight leg press, leg extension, ham machine, and I usually like to end with light dumbbell stiff leg deadlifts focusing on squeezing the shit out of my hams and gluteus at the top- hope this helped

 

[CeeL894]

I'll probably get shit for this but I only squat every 2 or so weeks. I have great form on this lift but right now it's just not something I care to focus on. My main focus for legs is building glutes and IMO, squats are def not the best glute builders.
I do legs 2x per week. One day glute/ham/calves and the other quad/glutes
For my big lift that day I usually stick to 3-8 reps and the rest is usually anywhere between 8-20 reps.

 

[krazieone56]

Honestly I don't train legs hard at all. I just do squats with 225# leg extensions with 120# and calf raises with 335# but, I play baseball so my legs are getting taxed all week long so I need them as fresh as possible.

KRAZIEONE - for all your DIO LABS needs....

 

[Dynex]

I do volume

always works for me and always has..

15-20 reps

Leg ext super set with leg curls 3x25 warm up

1 legged leg press 5 sets x 10-15
front squats 4x15
leg press feet close together n low ( tear drop baby) 4x 15-20
heavy leg ext 3 to failure
lunges
smith machine stiffs

pic is not on gear and not training legs that day was after arms.

 

[Bad Juju]

i love legs. this is my typical monday. all in kg plates

squats 10x100 10x120 5x150 5x180x5 10x150 40x100

A) leg press 30x4platesx4
b) stiff leg deads 10x275x4

below have 40lb vest on
A) russian split squat 10x20lb kbs x4
B) 2.5' box jumps 4 sets x 15

A) kettle bells swings 12x75x4
B) hanging piks 4 sets of 10---- good for hip flexors


if i posted my legs you'd think each quad was pregnant haha

 

[Trave]

I always go by percentages. A heavy day usually looks like this...

8 reps 60%
4 reps 75%
2 reps 85%
6 reps 75%
4 reps 85%
2 reps 90%

Always playing with the numbers, always getting bigger/stronger

 

[kyk288]

I do legs 2x a week.