Stop Killing Yourself on Leg Day
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This is just a friendly reminder that you don't have to torture yourself on leg day to build big quads and hamstrings. There's this traditional bodybuilding idea that effective leg training means "going to war" and absolutely fucking destroying yourself with tons of volume and intensity techniques until you're crawling out of the gym covered in blood, sweat and tears and that unless you literally have to shit standing up the next day, the session was a failure. And I get it because I used to believe the same thing. At one point, throwing up on leg day was a semi-regular occurrence and I actually took pride in it. But the truth is that suffering doesn't equal stimulus. Compound leg exercises are very demanding and you can only do a limited number of truly productive sets close to failure before your nervous system starts tapping out and the quality of each subsequent set plummets. After that you're just adding more muscle damage, fatigue and joint stress that eats into recover
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