Gym on Yik Yak | Idk why people think leg days need to be excruciatingly difficult and only once a week. Squat pattern, hip hinge, leg curl, leg extension. 2 sets each, close to failure. You can add adductors and calves if you want

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Gym 11w

Idk why people think leg days need to be excruciatingly difficult and only once a week. Squat pattern, hip hinge, leg curl, leg extension. 2 sets each, close to failure. You can add adductors and calves if you want

Anonymous 11w

"Close to failure" is the excruciatingly difficult part

Anonymous 11w

The problem most people have in my experience is that pushing a squat pattern to failure is hard. Luckily, you don’t really need a squat pattern, a leg extension is going to hit all parts of your quad effectively. Just be sure to add in a glute and adductor movement since you won’t hit them in a squat.

Anonymous 11w

Taking a squat pattern close to failure is brutal lmao. Hinge patterns aren't much better

Anonymous

#1 11w

No it’s not

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Anonymous

#2 11w

Going close to failure is not hard

Anonymous

OP 11w

Close to failure on a squat pattern is more mentally difficult and just generally taxing than most other exercises

Anonymous

#2 11w

Do fewer reps. Don’t be limited by breathing or lactic acid buildup. I don’t go above 8 reps ever and I’m always within 2 reps of failure. It’s not mentally difficult. If you wanna grow muscle then challenge your muscles, not your mentality

Anonymous

OP 11w

I’m aware lmao. I don’t have any issue teaching failure on squat patterns, because I’ve been doing this shit forever. I’m talking about the general populous, and dude, if you don’t think most people have a more difficult time training hard on squat patterns than other exercises, you just need to talk to more people.

Anonymous

#2 11w

Then just do leg press. I understand a barbell squat and maybe hack squat, but a leg press (especially the cable stack ones) are not difficult to push hard on

Anonymous

OP 11w

Not difficult for you or I maybe, definitely still not that easy for a lot of others. Being dismissive of something’s difficulty isn’t helpful to anyone.

Anonymous

OP 11w

If it's easy, you're not close to failure, you're in moderate discomfort

Anonymous

OP 11w

He’s right to. You’re not really at failure if it isn’t difficult. By definition, failure is difficult. If it weren’t difficult, you would be able to do more reps.

Anonymous

OP 11w

close to failure is by definition, difficult lol

Anonymous

#2 11w

I’m saying it’s not mentally challenging. If it’s mentally difficult then you aren’t getting as much of a mechanical challenge as you need. And don’t talk about “going past failure” cause that’s just a waste of time and effort

Anonymous

#1 11w

Discomfort and muscular failure are two different things. Discomfort is a neurological response and failure is a failure to recruit enough motor units/muscle fibers to lift the weight. Neither are difficult to achieve. You’re not fighting demons on leg days, you’re just mentally very weak

Anonymous

#4 11w

Hell, I have to hype myself up to do a good set of leg extensions lol. Legs in general just suck, they’ve earned their reputation

Anonymous

#2 11w

Real shit😭