Article: How Bodybuilders Should Squat
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mountainman33
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I don't entirely agree with maxing out at 20 sets per week. Seems low to me.
JeremyNG25
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God I wish we could get legs like that without drugs. At one point I believed it lol
Jikidi
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i agree. i usually aim for 10 sets alone on squats and then i do leg press and extensions. stiff leg deadlifts or normal deadlifts and leg curls etc on single workout. i workout legs twice a week. So technically i do that 20 sets easily in half week. most likely will get 20-50 sets on one week. Going by the feeling so it really changes. Keeping rest between sets around 30sec to 120sec. depends if im doing really heavy or moderate weight.
I love training legs and even thought im natural. I recover really fast. Thats my gift
also i get massage every week (helps too). I started to really get gains after i started to train this way. Going by the feeling. I used to do those 5x5 and typical 3x8-10 etc and while they got some foundation. They didint give me so much. Real gains started after doing really high volumes (more sets and 3-25 rep ranges) i like to mix things up too. like do 5x5 squat or 5x3 and then 5x10 and then maybe even 2-5x15-25.
JeremyNG25
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I don't know man...lol as a natural I don't see how you could possibly be doing 50 sets for legs twice a week unless you're a teenager. I can fatigue my muscles to absolute failure to where it's hard to walk after one set. Personally if it takes you 50 sets to work a muscle are you honestly training hard enough? Something doesn't sound right here. Pro bodybuilders on tons of gear don't do 50 sets in a session that's ridiculous
Jikidi
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well... i have been wondering it myself too. I feel really sore and barely can walk but i somehow seem to recover quickly. Also like i said i do get massage some times every week and i also massage my triggers and do faschia release techniques + stretching. (haha i kinda love that pain) also i sleep around 8-12hours every night and eat plenty of food (also i make sure i get all micronutrients and not sure if they help but taking all kinds of herbs with foods that should help on recovery and be anti inflammatory etc."not sure if i spelled it right")
By doing this kind of insane training my legs have started to grow on quite fast speed and im not sure if i said it right. i kinda like meant i do around 50 sets total instead of this topic saying to do 20sets. so on 1st workout i could maybe do 20-30 sets and next one 20-30. so it makes up that 40-50 total each week. which is over double of that 20sets.
same with back for example i started doing pullups and pulldowns etc for lets say.. i dont count sets but i just make some target number like 100reps. I just keep doing them till i get that. Works wonders for me this high volume training.
I guess im training hard enough. atleast im progressing very well and i can get to failure pretty easily/quickly if i want to. i just keep pushing over the limit. Its pretty much my own version of German volume training. tailored it to fit me.
By doing this kind of insane training my legs have started to grow on quite fast speed and im not sure if i said it right. i kinda like meant i do around 50 sets total instead of this topic saying to do 20sets. so on 1st workout i could maybe do 20-30 sets and next one 20-30. so it makes up that 40-50 total each week. which is over double of that 20sets.
same with back for example i started doing pullups and pulldowns etc for lets say.. i dont count sets but i just make some target number like 100reps. I just keep doing them till i get that. Works wonders for me this high volume training.
I guess im training hard enough. atleast im progressing very well and i can get to failure pretty easily/quickly if i want to. i just keep pushing over the limit. Its pretty much my own version of German volume training. tailored it to fit me.