The New Year’s Rush

Posted on | January 6, 2009 |

Being in the gym yesterday, I was very surprised to see it wasn’t as crowded as I thought it would be. Typically, the first few weeks of the year, everyone and their mother start going to the gym for their New Year’s resolution. They’re motivated, inspired, re-invigorated and ready to lose the fat they’ve been dreading for the past 8 months. Then after about 3-4 weeks, the newbies die out and leave the die-hards to maintain their gym regime. Yesterday, Monday the 5th, the gym was half full.

This was the perfect condition for Leg day.

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Starting off with Leg Press, B.J., James and I did:

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3 sets of 180 lbs x 12 reps

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Once we were thoroughly warmed up, we moved over to Barbell Squats (Thighs parallel to the floor).

We did our typical 4 warm up sets.

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135 lbs x 12 reps

135 lbs x 10 reps

225 lbs x 10 reps

225 lbs x 10 reps.

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After the warm up sets is where the real hard workout began. Granted we only do about 3-4 more sets of squats after the warm-up, but they are hard, heavy sets.

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275 lbs x 10 reps

315 lbs x 10 reps

345 lbs x 10 reps Superset with 270 lbs x 25 reps on the leg press. It is important to have the station already set up so that there is no rest/down time in between squats and leg press.

 

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Next exercise was hamstring curls. I did one set at 90 lbs x 10 reps per leg, and then got distracted by chatting it up with a former fitness model.

This can be problematic, so it is important to not be so sociable in the gym if you are trying to have a good workout.

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Since everyone else was done I decided to move on to calves where I finished with 3 sets at 90 lbs x 10 reps per set.

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Today my legs are extremely fatigued, meaning I had a good workout. I have noticed that my legs are fuller and my thighs have grown a bit larger.
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Today’s workout is chest. See you tomorrow.

Category: Legs & Thighs, The World According to Me
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