First time back training legs, since I picked up a small quad tear on 23rd Decemebr. So after roughly 6 weeks of rest, I testing my leg with a workout of leg extensions and leg curl. My final set for leg extensions being on 215lb. Leg held out well, although it started to hurt on leg curl due to the pressure of the machine on my knee. So I ended after two sets of leg curl. But overall very happy, and at least I can now build up my confidence for squat! Hopefully within the month, I'll be back under the bar
Using my brand new swiss cambered bar, never having used such a piece of kit before, i go to failure to test my strength. Managing 100kg 220lb for a new pb. I attempted 110kg and moved it a wee bit, but no cigar! Goalzzzz Hardest bit was the balance, stalling any momentum and making it a movement of multiple eccentric pause presses lol
And finally today was Leg day! My fave, and I opened up with abs and core work and then I did some leg extensions and leg curl to pre-exhaust my legs. When my legs started to get that wibbly wobbly feeling, I went onto squat. I have been doing sets of around 12reps for the last 6months, but as mentioned above, im now in my strength/heavy phase of training. So although i am still training for size and development, i am currently doing lower but heavier reps to prep for my pb attemlts in a couple of month. After that ill be back to higher volume work again. For today i started with First warming up on 150kg, then 180kg and finished my 1 rep sets with 200kg. My intention was to do 3 power reps on 200kg but it didn't feel comfortable, so I kept it as a single and moved on to the next part, of 3 HIT reps on 170kg. I was pleased with this set as I wasn't sure if I could do 3 reps under such control, but I felt like I had at least one more left in the tank. Obvs normally I train to ...
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