Better late than never, right? We’ve all heard that a few times. It makes sense, to be sure. The best time to start planning for your retirement was ten years ago. The next best time is TODAY. This applies to your weight lifting efforts are well. The best time to start training your legs with heavy free weights was when you were 16 years old and you discovered biceps curls. Your arms look great today, but your legs, which were ignored mostly for another decade, could sure use some attention. Well, the second best time to begin training your legs with serious dedication and focus is TODAY!
The best way to give your legs the energy, time, and dedication is to put them first. Literally. Move leg day to Day 1 of your workout routine. Your chest isn’t your priority so your chest should no longer be the muscle group you train when you are at your freshest. Legs come first now.
Splitting leg day up might help you too. Start your weekly training routine with quadriceps on day one, soaking them with a full 75 minutes of squats, leg press, and other heavy movements with plenty of rest between sets. Then, go home. Combine your back & chest into one training day, and even putting arms & shoulders on the same day for a while may work as well. This will give you a solid day to dedicate to hamstrings on your 3rd or 4th training day of the week.
When it comes to exercise selection, HEAVY needs to be the word. Just don’t even bother bringing any of those light weight pumping movements to the gym for a few months, when it comes to legs. You don’t need cable this or extension that. You need to move more heavy iron with your legs!
Stop treating your legs like they’re just another body part. Begin treating them like the foundation of your entire physique. Try looking at them as HALF of your body, and a half that you should start treating as equal. Every time you flex your biceps for someone, flex your quads too, if only for yourself. Start thinking of your body parts as your children. You want to show them all the same level of love and devotion, never putting one above the other, right? Apply that mentality to your training, and the balance you bring will result in a new balance to your physique.
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I have always trained my legs from the beginning. I figured that the only way to get the physique that I really wanted, I had to train everything-nothing could be left alone. As the years have gone by, I have tried different methods in leg training and ultimately, I have made the best improvements splitting up my quads and hams.
I love leg training because I realize that on the bodybuilding stage, most of my competitors don’t like to train them and I will exploit their weakness.