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TRAINING (AUGUST ISSUE)
Winning the war on total leg development has never been
this easy – if you’ve got what it takes!
Legs Unlimited!
Though legs are the biggest muscle
group of the body they are one of the hardest areas to
train. They can handle the most weight, tolerate a lot of
pain, and they can also be overtrained. Don’t be ridiculous
by training your legs for a three-hour-long workout, and
don’t train legs more than twice a week. If the next leg day
comes around and your legs are still hurting from the last
one, let them heal! Take an extra day or two of rest before
hitting them hard again. In short, to get the best from leg
training they deserve your full attention.
 You
don’t casually walk into the gym and decide to train legs.
Legs require so much effort that you’ve got to prepare
yourself. Plan your routine the night before, write down
what you want to achieve, and psych yourself up in advance
for every leg workout. Each time you go to the gym to train
your legs, it’s war. So have a battle plan.
When training legs, keep in mind that
your heart is in your upper body and your legs are not. You
have to work like hell to pump blood down into your legs.
That’s why leg day should really be called leg-only day. You
need to put forth a great deal of effort to do your wheels
justice. Attempting to train another muscle group on the
same day will just take away some of that important energy.
Proper leg training is brutally hard and physically
exhausting. If you’re training your legs with enough
intensity you may feel like losing your lunch, but that’s
what it takes to build great legs.
Training legs effectively means more than just piling weight
on the bar for a few reps or doing umpteen reps with light
weights. You must keep pressure on your leg muscles at all
times. Your range of motion must be as complete as possible
and your form should be perfect.
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