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WHY YOU HATE LEG DAY!

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Leg day is one of the most hated workout days in the gym. People go so far as to skip it all together because they dread enduring another set of squats, lunges, leg presses or step ups. Don-t let this be you ever again. After watching this video, you are going to know the real reason why you hate leg day and, most importantly, what you need to do to start loving it from now on. Leg training is very polarizing. Ask someone whether they enjoy training their legs and you are going to get a strong response one way or the other. Some will actually look forward to it while the majority will despise it. There is actually a very good reason for why you might be one of those that does not like training their legs. Because doing so is really hard! There are over 50 muscles in the lower body that get trained when you do your leg workouts. The same cannot be said for training biceps. The more muscles that are working the harder the demand placed on you. That said, that isn-t the only reason why you hate leg day. More importantly, if you do not look forward to training your legs then you likely were forced by external forces to start training your legs in a way that exceeded your abilities at an early point in your training. This is a big mistake, but it can be corrected. If you are willing to break it all down and start back at square one, you can rebuild your leg training and build huge legs in the process. This is going to require that you get honest with yourself however. You need to be willing to admit that your squat (while heavy) may not truly be commanded at all points in the range of motion of the exercise. If you are feeling every rep in your joints more than your muscles then you definitely need to re-evaluate your performance of the lift and be willing to make some changes. Either way, when we skip the necessary process of building up to a big squat, we get frustrated and wind up hating leg training. This happens for one of two reasons. The first is, you perform your reps badly and allow the muscles that should be doing the work to escape unworked. This will only limit the gains you see in your legs which will frustrate you and make you start wanting to blame your genetics for your poor progress. It is not your genetics. It is you. You need to be honest with your shortcomings and realize that lifting with a lighter weight may have allowed you to put more of the work in your legs where it should be and you would get better results in the process. The second thing that happens is that you compensate your way through every rep of your leg training and wind up beating up your knees, ankles and hips in the process. This makes leg training physically unbearable and something that you want to avoid at all costs moving forward. Neither of these situations are conducive to you getting bigger legs. So, look at yourself in the mirror and be honest with your current approach to leg training. If you find that either of the above scenarios sounds like something that you are doing too much of right now, do me a favor and back off. Start with much lighter weights than you can supposedly handle and work on perfecting your squat form. From here, gradually add back in the weight and you will be shocked at not just how good your legs feel but how great they start looking in the process. If you are looking for a complete program that puts the science back in leg training to help you build your best legs yet, head to and get our ATHLEAN-X Training System. Start building ripped, athletic and powerful legs by training like an athlete
Date: 2022-04-22

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Comments and reviews: 10

Sand
Love your work. And respect your advice.
This video was a bit contradictory however. You can-t get low you shouldn-t be under bar? But leg press no good- and I-ve seen your other videos about hip limitation - for example cam impingement and other things, and to not get too low if you have restrictions.
Seems hard to balance it out, when your internal rotation a bit limited on one side and external rotation on other for example.
So don-t get under bar if you can-t get full range? Does that hold or not? Where-s the balance between deepness and some limitation. Is now the leg press machine ideal?
Then again the bar also helps with core stabilisation and just the added weight on shoulders rather than flat back on machine.
Seems like a good next video; )
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Aren
personally the reason I don't like leg day has nothing to do with the amount of weight I'm using (I got over the social anxiety of using a lower amount of weight than most other people a long time ago. I just hate how tiring it is since there are so many compound movements involved. I am someone who has always hated cardio and/or endurance training because of a combination of genetics that make the exhaustion hit harder - since I don't get the endorphins from exercise that most people do - and breathing issues (asthma sucks. Leg day, with exercises like squats, reverse / walking lunges, hip thrusts, weighted step ups, razor curls, etc, almost feels like a day of high intensity cardio. Not fun.
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Bandman
I also need some advice from a professional: the bar always hurts my spine when squatting and so I got a pad to put on the bar and even still its painful I actually finished a leg workout and idk what happened but my whole right shoulder leading into the arm was completely numb for 3 WEEKS! I figured it was nerve damage but idk what to do I even tried putting the bar in different spots along my back to see if I just had it positioned wrong but it's still painful and leaves my back bruised or worse please give helpful advice
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Charoline
My coach is getting me to bench squat no weight, giblet squats with dumbbell, and hack squat machine progressing overload THEN we will take it to the squat rack when form and muscles develop enough to benefit from the square rack. some times the plates I use are not as big as others but I can assurely say, I'm getting a full/better work out because I understand what it is I'm doing
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kingmikez05
The only reason i hate legs is because i try to hit failure and then my legs don't recover for like a whole week, so i don't know if that's because I'm just starting, wether i should switch to just machines, or lighten up the intensity so that my legs can recover before i hit them again the second time during that week. Which is best for optimal muscle growth?
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MASON
This helped me so
Much I use to be able to lift 315 pounds and I loved doing leg day but I stop working out for a while and I went back to working out and I tried to lift 200 and couldn-t get it up and now every time it-s leg day I try to get out of it but I think this video help me not feel so insecure about lifting smaller Weight so thanks
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Erik
It-s not the fact that a hate squats. It-s the fact that I don-t own a squat rack, and we-re in the middle of a pandemic, so I have to power clean the bar and whatever weight that I-m going to squat, then move weight I very much cannot overhead press behind my head, and then do the squats.
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howsmyformation
kinda right i started of very high reps low weight to really get a understanding of the muscles and where am i trying to target and most important you NEED TO REALLY PUSH IN THE PAIN ZONE the longer you push there the better the future will be on your workouts
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sport
I just began (really) working out, and prefer training the legs (i'm still weak but it's fun. Other trainings are way harder and scary for me. But this is my 4rd week after the lockdown (everything was closed over here.
Anyyyyways, have a wonderful day everyone
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Crazy
Legs are my worst. I have had my right hip repaired after I shattered the acetabular in an accident. I'm pretty much using no weight at this point and using various lunges to try to build a foundation. Squats are awkward for me due to the angle of the joint repair.
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