Posts Tagged ‘Leg Press’

Training Journal: Friday 30th January 2009

Friday - legs and triceps
Legs

Today I decided to go for three heavy sets (the heaviest the leg press machine will go) of leg press, to failure, followed by my usual quad extensions and hamstring curls. I did a quick hill walk at 6.5kph for five minutes followed by a couple of warm up sets at 100kg, and [...]


Training Journal: Friday 23rd January 2009

Friday - legs and triceps
I have been reading various articles on training methods and come to the conclusion that I might be trying to do too many sets in my workouts. This workout, I decided I would do less sets, but try and up the intensity by doing “step down” sets, where you hit failure at [...]


Training Journal: Saturday 17th January 2009

Saturday would normally be a rest day for me, but my schedule is out of sync due to missing my weights session on Wednesday.

Legs
Warmup - 500 metres rowing, just to get the blood flowing, couldn’t use any of the treadmills as they were all being used. Did one light set, 100kg leg press for 15 [...]