Ladies and gentlemen, we’re back again today with another video. The last video talking about strength traning we covered the chest and how to build a bigger better chest, but today it’s all about the legs. I’ve talked about this before but volume is biggest indicator for building strength and muscle. When we are talking how much overall tonnage of weight we can move day in day out, overall volume is going to be our main factor here. Set x Reps x Weight. Plus being in a calorie surplus, meaning we are eating more calories than we need to maintain our bodyweight. This is how we are going to build size, mass and muscle. Mixed in with good hydration and a lot of sleeps going to be overall best.
Hypothetically speaking if you are a powerlifter you can become very good at powerlifting by just squat, bench and deadlifting. Now, you do risk having weak points which is more likely to lead to injury from lifting and it may not be optimal BUT you can get good at squat, bench and deadlift AND be really strong. With bodybuilding it’s highly likely that you need a larger pool of exercise varaition to get better.
So, when we start with leg training we want to start out with what is going to be the most bang for our buck. What exercise hits the most amount of your legs? Allows you to lift the most amount of weight? Because the more amount of weight we can lift the more amount we can progress. What I suggest is finding a compound exercise that fits good for your body and one that you enjoy. The #1 for most people is going to be the back squat. A good substitute for the back squat would be the front squat and pause squat. If you utterly do hate these movements even the leg press, maybe even the Bulgarian split squat. All of these movements allow you progressively overload, use a lot of tonnage a lot of volume as well using the large majority of your legs. You’re basically using every muscle from your glutes down. The majority of your workout 50-70% of your workout should be focused on this movement, whatever it may be.
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