An odd leg routine...

[Papa shades]

http://www.t-nation.com/article/most_recent/hungarian_oak_leg_blast

Give it a read through and tell me what you think. I'm thinking I might try it out for the next 2 months or so.

[Honken]

From a tricking perspective it won't be optimal though, just thought I'd mention that.

[mr popular]

I hate the mentality that people seem to have about training nowadays where they just drop whatever they were doing and take up whatever the newest thing happens to be, even if its a vague, second-hand account on a biotest website.

Other than that it is interesting, but i'm sure this guy didn't go from skinny to the biggest legs in the world simply from doing this.

and the dumbest part is no one knows who he is or has any pictures of him, in spite of the fact that he's an olympic athlete.

[Kitosho]

http://www.t-nation.com/article/most_recent/hungarian_oak_leg_blast

Give it a read through and tell me what you think. I'm thinking I might try it out for the next 2 months or so.




I think it's a leg routine

but tbh what do i know

[Papa shades]

I hate the mentality that people seem to have about training nowadays where they just drop whatever they were doing and take up whatever the newest thing happens to be, even if its a vague, second-hand account on a biotest website.

Other than that it is interesting, but i'm sure this guy didn't go from skinny to the biggest legs in the world simply from doing this.

and the dumbest part is no one knows who he is or has any pictures of him, in spite of the fact that he's an olympic athlete.

I am not someone who simply adopts a new thing because it seems cool or is endorsed or whatever. The reality is is that I'm at the end of a large training block and starting my new stuff at the end of this month. My plan was practically set in stone but then this came up and I thought it might be interesting to try, if only because it is so dissimilar to my regular resistance training.

I was more interested in whether perhaps anyone on this board had done a similar style of training or were familiar with it and could share their experiences.

Also, as for the individual case study mentioned in the article, he obviously didn't go from skinny to big (his 1-RM squat was something around 500 before the program), but I am not really concerned with him regardless, rather the program.

*EDIT: And yeah, it's obviously not a power program so I don't expect there to be any tricking benefits.

[chicanerous]

What's your current full back squat?

[Kitosho]

why do you want to do this


the best way to gain leg size is to progress to heavy weights and large numbers of reps on different kinds of squats and eat


any sort of hardcore fatigue-based strategy is reserved for bodybuilders who have already gained close to their adaptive limit and need incredible amounts of stress just to maintain their size, but a lot of kids do dumb shit like this because they are impatient and feel like it will help them in some way or that is it better than something else


try this: do 1-2 squat-only days every week, doing a decent amount of reps with a somewhat difficult weight. also, eat plenty of food. do this for 3 years, taking short breaks when needed. you will be astonished at your progress.

[mr popular]

I agree with that philosophy.

If your back squat right now is at 275 for 10, and over the course of a few years you turn that into 455 for 10, your thighs are going to be pretty impressive. Same with whatever other main lift you choose for each particular muscle group.

So whatever the fastest way happens to be that you are able to bring your full squat up that much is what is going to make your thighs the largest.

[Papa shades]

The point I'm really pursuing is if any one has any experience with this kind of training? It is highly odd, so I doubt it. The things mentioned in the last few posts are basically my current views on leg strength/size at least, and of course is a much more 'tried and tested' method. After all this I guess I won't risk doing an odd program instead of more conventional, and at least proven, methods.

But yes, my back squat progress has in no way plateaued or reached great numbers or anything like that, and so there is no reason to deviate from my current training methods.

[chicanerous]

But yes, my back squat progress has in no way plateaued or reached great numbers or anything like that, and so there is no reason to deviate from my current training methods.
Exactomundo.

[Steve]

I hate all these faggy articles that say things like "it's oh so simple" and then go on to change the routine every other day for 9 months, varying the time for the concentric and esoteric portions of the lift, changing equipment, eating supps, and having an impossible planned progression. Could exercise really be so complicated that people have to come up with arbitrary workouts rather than say, just doing some things to stimulate their advancement?

[Ashtar]

I hate that overcomplicated stuff too. It does make sense to vary stuff, but you don't have to do it according to a program, you just write it down when you do it out of necessity or something.

The program in the article doesn't seem too complicated though.

[JacktheHero]

you don't need tom platz legs so why not stick to simple strength (<3 reps), power (~5reps), explosiveness (OLy, tricking, freerunning) and sprinting routines/workouts. If you eat right your quds will get huge enough. A BB routine has almost no application to real life.

[mr popular]

Haha please enlighten us as to how a "bodybuilding" routine has no application to "real life"?

[chicanerous]

I live an unreal life.