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Originally posted by gopro My suggestion is to train your legs up to 6 days per week. Use compound movements like squats, lunges, step ups, leg presses, etc. Use sets of 30 + reps with little rest between sets. Continue your cardio as well. You must run them into the ground to shrink em. Good luck! |
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Originally posted by gopro My suggestion is to train your legs up to 6 days per week. Use compound movements like squats, lunges, step ups, leg presses, etc. Use sets of 30 + reps with little rest between sets. |
22"quads! Wait...bad idea. My jeans went from tight to baggy... too baggy. Geez, I understan, though. 27.5-28" quads and a 30-31" waist. finding jeans sucked. Give Mavi a try. the Max and Mad Max both have a ton of room.
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Originally posted by ActionMatt The whole idea of intentionally breaking down muscle is insane. If you're genetically prone to having big legs, then you're going to have big legs. No point doing stupid tricks like intentionally overtraining to "slim them down"-- that runs counter to any common sense. |
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Originally posted by Prince I disagree with that. Here is a article clip from t-mag.com To lose muscle, you must temporarily stop training it. Yes, there are ways to train muscle and minimize (not stop) hypertrophy, but if you're serious about losing mass, you must allow for (gasp!) atrophy to set in. That means not only stopping any direct work for at least a month, but also being very observant of any indirect tension you may be placing on the muscle. So for instance, if you want to lose mass from the trunk, this isn't a good time to do powerlifting. If you want to reduce your thighs, be careful of the amount of work they get from aerobics. Understand that there's a difference between detraining — the physical and hormonal consequence of complete cessation of training — and specialized atrophy. So long as the usual level of tension is maintained for the rest of the body, detraining shouldn't be a problem. With athletes who like to do high intensity work, which usually innervates all muscle groups, I generally advise focusing on machine and isolation work for the other groups during the planned atrophy period. This maintains strength levels while minimizing inadvertent work. |
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Originally posted by gopro For Prince and ironmag... Unfortunately, for the genetically gifted, not training a bodypart does not always work. Sometimes the body needs to be "forced" to atrophy. ~~~ 'Forcing' the body to atrophy takes a long time. This does not happen over time. It would take months before a reduction in muscle would be seen. I know this runs contradictory to everything that is "bodybuilding," but you cannot argue with a person's goals...especially in my profession! ~~~ No you can't, but at the same time applying a overly amount of stress to the largest area of the body will in fact fatigue the nervous system. Any work or stress that is placed on the other muscles in the form of progressive overload will only drive the person into a deeper state of fatigue. Anyway, I have run into this exact problem before with several woman. My first instinct was to train everything but their legs...2 problems...a few of them had this problem without EVER training their legs...AND...not training them did not always work! ~~~ I to have run into this problem numerous times with my clients. Now, I'm not quite sure by what you mean, but if you are saying that these females legs grew by themselves without any form of resistance then I find that hard to believe. I really can't comprehend how not training a muscle will result in those muscles staying the same size? It flys in the face of a very practical scientific rule. "Use it or lose it." In fact a whole training methodology about this came out many years ago called "Freestyle Training." I am actually certified in this training method, but found out its benefits well before this time. ~~~ Actually so am I. I'm not quite sure what that means, but I've found the certification to be a waste of my time. I don't like to do it, but thats what I get paid for! ~~~ I only mean this in the nicest way but if money is what dictates your practice then I would say that your only compromising your credibility as a trainer. I do this for the love of the job. yes, i have to make a living but at the same time there is a code of conduct that trainers like ourselves should follow. |
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Originally posted by The_Chicken_Daddy Why do you instantly assume it's someone from wbb? |
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Originally posted by ActionMatt He's not one of us. I honestly don't know who he is. ........though I like his style. |
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Originally posted by ActionMatt He's not one of us. I honestly don't know who he is. ........though I like his style. |
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Originally posted by ActionMatt You have an incredibly poor attitude. |
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Originally posted by Prince Yes he is! ironmag is Maki Riddington and he will not go away. |
LOL... but agreed, it works.