Thread: Leg training at home...

I do squats at home with out a squat rack, I just clean the weight up.

front squats, step lunges, lunges, bent knee deads, bar underneath the legs squats, dumbbell squats.

buy a squat rack. I own one-want it for a cheapass price? Where do you live?

Also bulgarian squats, pistols, DB squats, overhead squats

bulgarian? never heard of those.

Originally Posted by juggernaut

buy a squat rack. I own one-want it for a cheapass price? Where do you live?

I live in a small town called 'Lowestoft' in England, it's the most easterly point of England. Are you in the U.K?

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

I do squats at home with out a squat rack, I just clean the weight up.

I did this for a while, but as the wieght progressed I started to experiance back pain and generaly didn't feel safe.

Not sure why you would feel back pain?

Originally Posted by juggernaut

bulgarian? never heard of those.

http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/exerc...ariansquat.htm

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

Not sure why you would feel back pain?

Perhaps I was doing it wrong? Also at the end of squat I found it difficult to lower weight properly. Any tips?

Bulgarian squats look good, I like the idea of single leg exercises.

Cheers bakerboy., any others?

Originally Posted by Samo

Bulgarian squats look good, I like the idea of single leg exercises.

Cheers bakerboy., any others?

Here is some ther leg stuff you can do at home:

Snatches (with BB's or DB's), Clean's

Deadlifts, straight leg deadlifts (with DB's or BB's), single legged RDL's

Standing BB calf raises, single legged DB calf raises

Originally Posted by Bakerboy

Here is some ther leg stuff you can do at home:

Snatches (with BB's or DB's), Clean's

Deadlifts, straight leg deadlifts (with DB's or BB's), single legged RDL's

Standing BB calf raises, single legged DB calf raises

Forgive my ignorance, what are 'RDL's' and 'snatches'? Could you post a couple of links please?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Bakerboy

http://www.abcbodybuilding.com/exerc...ariansquat.htm

I love how huge the guy looks and then looking at the tiny dumbells.

Originally Posted by AKIRA

I love how huge the guy looks and then looking at the tiny dumbells.

Yeah, that is kind of funny.

Originally Posted by AKIRA

I love how huge the guy looks and then looking at the tiny dumbells.

didn't notice that at first, looks like a couple of CD's on a pencil

I also dont have a squat rack at home, if you dont feel comfortable with cleaning the weight (which is what I did for a while and admitedly it can be a pain in the ass as you know your able to squat a lot more than you can clean) there are lots of variations of squats that have already been mentioned, at the moment im doing hack squats which i dont think have been mentioned:

http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/...HackSquat.html

And obviously deadlifts if your not already doing them

Cheers StanUK, this helps tremendously! Good link by the way, a very informative site.

From Samo.

The first movement.

http://www.uwlax.edu/strengthcenter/...ideo_index.htm

No worries mate, its a great site, especially if your looking for new excersizes to try :-)

thanks Bakerboy that's fantasic! This will help me no end.

I bought my squat rack used for $70.

Originally Posted by Bakerboy

http://www.uwlax.edu/strengthcenter/...ideo_index.htm

bookmarked! thanks.

Originally Posted by IainDaniel

I do squats at home with out a squat rack, I just clean the weight up.

THat's impressing ....I could never clean THe weight I squat with...

Originally Posted by assassin

THat's impressing ....I could never clean THe weight I squat with...

Iain's a beast! A Canadian beast!!

Actually, I think he's the Wendigo.

Originally Posted by Yanick

bookmarked! thanks.

That is a good site, ill bookmark it when I get home.

Originally Posted by assassin

THat's impressing ....I could never clean THe weight I squat with...

Actually I don't squat that much cause of lower back problems LOL!

Try overhead squats
http://danjohn.org/overhead.html