Home of Strength
So by now you probably have seen the photos of track cyclist Robert Förstemann’s enormous Döner thighs. It was all sparked by a tweet by Greg Henderson: These things are the opposite of all show no go. And what does the do to train them (besides doing countless rounds on the track)? Squat 220kg x8 and 260kg x2 [...]
You have seeen Mountain Dog leg training sessions before. Today John Meadows and Dave Tate perform some strip sets on the leg press. Pure torture. Here is John’s set. Note the foot position change for maximum quad recruitment.
Check out Technique WOD with Doug Larsen from fitr.tv. There are probably a couple of things for your own training as well, as for training others, you can take away here. For example: Pistols progressions for the ankle ROM challenged among us. Also good advice on Lunges form and progressions.
John Meadows and Dave Tate had another brutal leg workout. Before the session Dave tweeted this: 90 minutes from another leg day training hell. Someone will be bent over a bucket and it won’t be me. — Dave (CEO elitefts) (@UnderTheBar) March 17, 2012 Little did he know… after safety bar squats / box squats [...]
John Meadows annihilates legs with a brutal triset. Legs Triset: leg press chain lunges hack squats I can’t even begin to tell you how much pain we were in at this point. We did yolk bar squats, leg curls and then this triset. Something like 7 or 8 plates on the leg press, then chain lunges [...]
