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2003/05/20, 10:46 PM
My gym has recently been remodeling, and has removed all the leg press sleds. This throws a wrench in my mass workout, since leg day is basically just squat and leg press. What is a good exercise I can do to substitute? I've been doing lunges, but man do I hate those.
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2003/05/20, 11:16 PM
Squats should suffice for your meat and potatoes of your mass workout for the quads. A nice addition to form the lower part of the legs is supersetting heavy leg extensions with sissy squats. 10 extensions followed by 15 sissy's. By the time you get the 3rd set of these done, your legs will be screaming. Add a superset of 3 sets of 10 each leg curls and kickbacks(but blaster, whatever you choose to call them), and you have a pretty intense leg workout that covers all areas including glutes.
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As far as genetics go, the skies the limit. You are limited only by your mental perception of it.
Ron
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2003/05/23, 01:28 PM
I just got 3 great ideas from that last post--thanks Ron.
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2003/05/26, 02:23 PM
I personally believe the core foundation of legs should be Squats & deadlifts. Maintaining a balance between the quads & the hams, glutes, & low back is crucial to overall development & injury prevention. I'll usually alternate the focus between deads & squats evry othe workout due to the fact that training both in the same workout is quite taxing and can lead to overtraining. After squats or deads(depending on the workout) I'll then do some support execises as bb1 pointed out above. In my opinion people tend to over emphysize the muscles on the front of the body at the expense of those on the rear which tend to be a bit more grueling to train.
P.L.
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