Getting Back to Weights...

[Dark Magus]

Probably fewer than you see doing wrist curls in the squat rack, wearing lifting belts to bench press 150lb, squatting on bosu balls, benching with 'spotters' who upright raise half the weight, hammer curling with wrist straps, informing people who squat that they're gonna 'hurt their knees' before doing leg extensions.

What's your point caller?

I know what you're on about - luckily I've never encountered the above.

[loadedgloves]

Of course they do.
Go to ANY gym, in ANY country and people are mainly doing isolation excersises.
All this talk of compound-movements is great, but how many people do you see exclusively doing these excersises in the gym?

How mnay fucking people do you see climbing up ropes with small children strapped to their backs?

I'd say mainly do compound exercises, but most people (except for serious PLers) don't exclusively do them..

[Hut*Hut]

this month all im doing are 60 dips and chin ups everyday and work up to deadlift single every few days to maintain my lower body strength. Simple like an ak47.

[Roll With The Punches]

this month all im doing are 60 dips and chin ups everyday and work up to deadlift single every few days to maintain my lower body strength. Simple like an ak47.

everyday?

[BOSS]

everyday?

What he said. It sounds like you want instant results bro. Everyday doesn't cut it unless you're on them roids!

[Buddy Rydell]

I think isolation exercises are great to use after you've done the compound ones that build core strength. I'm one of the few people who does squats, deadlifts, and chins in my gym regularly, but you do see tons of people doing cable crossovers, cable curls, and bench presses using machines and pulleys.

Bench presses are great, but not doing the other stuff leads to people looking like storks or walking pectorals.

[Buddy Rydell]

Haven't done deadlifts in ages, so I thought I'd work up slowly to my former lifts.

Here are my sets:
1*6 reps ( 135lbs )
1*6 reps ( 175lbs )
1*6 reps ( 205lbs )
1*6 reps ( 225lbs )
1*6 reps ( 245lbs )
1*6 reps ( 265lbs )
1*6 reps ( 285lbs )
1*6 reps ( 300lbs )

Then there was a charitable campaign thing at work, so I went and played sports for a few hours. I wonder how my back's gonna feel in the morning.

[Buddy Rydell]

I feel it a bit now. A bit tight, but it should loosen up at the beach. Going to make sand castles and crap with my little lad.

[Dark Magus]

I think isolation exercises are great to use after you've done the compound ones that build core strength. I'm one of the few people who does squats, deadlifts, and chins in my gym regularly, but you do see tons of people doing cable crossovers, cable curls, and bench presses using machines and pulleys.

Bench presses are great, but not doing the other stuff leads to people looking like storks or walking pectorals.

How does one great bigger legs?
I do squats, extensions, presses for quads and hamstrings and raises for calves each week - I also run 7km and cycle 15km, 2-3x a week.

I'm still a stork.

[Buddy Rydell]

How does one great bigger legs?
I do squats, extensions, presses for quads and hamstrings and raises for calves each week - I also run 7km and cycle 15km, 2-3x a week.

I'm still a stork.

If you want mass, you have to cut down on the cardio and you have to up your food intake. Do you do squats all the way down? Deadlifts? Leg curls?

[Dark Magus]

If you want mass, you have to cut down on the cardio and you have to up your food intake. Do you do squats all the way down? Deadlifts? Leg curls?

Yeah - my problem is Ive got long legs. I think genetics is the issue here...

[Buddy Rydell]

Yeah - my problem is Ive got long legs. I think genetics is the issue here...

Could well be.

[His_Royness]

Yeah - my problem is Ive got long legs. I think genetics is the issue here...

Same thing here absolutely skinny legs. When I was 20 though, i was about 45lbs heavier than I am now and did almost only cycling for legs and my upper legs where huge. There's basically nothing I can do about my calves, though...

[Dark Magus]

Same thing here absolutely skinny legs. When I was 20 though, i was about 45lbs heavier than I am now and did almost only cycling for legs and my upper legs where huge. There's basically nothing I can do about my calves, though...

I hear you...one of my friends used to train his legs like a bastard in his 20s....he used to squat all the time and even though he got pretty good quads and hams, his calves just wouldnt keep up.
You only have to look at Usain Bolt to see that tall, mesopmorph guys are pretty fucked in the legs dept.

Even my missus calls me 'pernas de frango' - chicken-legs.

[Buddy Rydell]

You can still make them more defined. It's hard to believe you can't build thigh mass with a good nutrition and squat specialization program. Squats are the best exercise a person can do.