If your leg days consist of sloppy squats, half-rep leg presses, and whatever Instagram told you to do for your glutes, it’s no wonder your lower body development is stuck in neutral. Leg training isn’t about chasing a pump, it’s about executing the right movements, with the right intent, and actually understanding why you’re doing them. I don’t train legs with fluff, and neither should you. Here’s what actually matters.
Most people train their calves like an afterthought. A few rushed sets at the end of a leg workout, bouncing through reps like a trampoline enthusiast, and then they wonder why their lower legs still look like they belong to a marathon runner.
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Should you eat before you train or should you train fasted?
I hear it all the time in squatting circles “if it’s not on the floor it doesn’t count”.
Is this even true? You see the only place it really counts is in strength sports, but what about everyone else?
So you want to grow your calves? You doing 1000 calf raises a week in the gym and yet those punies are still, well… puny.
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Sometimes we overthink what we NEED, sometimes we even DO MORE than we need, and then there are times that we don’t do ENOUGH of what is good.
Rucking has become a massive trend of late, but it actually roots back to the military where soldiers would carry heavy loads over all kinds of terrains to build endurance and strength.
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