{"id":1487,"date":"2014-04-02T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T14:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2014-04-03T20:54:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T00:54:05","slug":"pre-exhaust-leg-workout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/pre-exhaust-leg-workout\/","title":{"rendered":"Build Massive Quads With This Pre-Exhaust Leg Workout!"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nDo you find it hard to isolate and get a good pump throughout your quadriceps when training legs?<\/strong><\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

A lot of people find it difficult to feel their quads working when doing big basic compound leg exercises like squats and leg presses. Even though they may work up to handling heavy weights in these exercises and really push themselves, it’s sometimes hard to feel that direct muscle pump in the quads.<\/p>\n

There are many top level powerlifters who don’t have “Huge Quads”, albeit they are very strong with squats. Often times their legs are A LOT stronger than they look. While this is certainly OK for a strength athlete, it isn’t so desirable from a bodybuilding point of view.<\/p>\n\n\n
\nIn my case I find it hard to feel my quads working whenever I train legs, and I consider myself fairly advanced in my training with pretty good leg development. So I can only imagine how difficult it must be for a lot of beginner and intermediate level guys to really feel their quads working.<\/p>\n

Generally, the bigger and more developed a muscle is, the easier it will be to feel it working during your workouts. You develop more of that “mind muscle connection”<\/em>. This is very often overlooked, but it’s a critical step to taking your physique to the advanced stages of muscular development.<\/p>\n

In my case I feel my hamstrings working more during squats and leg presses, rather then my quads. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I want to focus more on my quads. So to help engage my quads more I will “Pre-Exhaust”<\/strong> them with leg extensions as the very first exercise of my leg workouts.\n<\/td>\n

\n\"Lee\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

This is a killer trick for bringing up stubborn quadriceps and maximizing your leg development. It also helps to warm up your knee joints before tackling heavy weights in squats and leg presses.<\/p>\n

\"Pre-Exhaust<\/a><\/p>\n

To show you an example of how to do this, here is an exact leg workout that I did the other day in the gym…<\/p>\n

– General Warm Up:<\/strong>
\n10 minutes on the cardio rowing machine.<\/p>\n

– Leg Extensions:<\/strong>
\n**This was my Pre-Exhaust quad exericse**<\/em>
\n50 pounds x 25 reps
\n90 pounds x 15 reps
\n110 pounds x 10 reps
\n130 pounds x 10 reps
\n150 pounds x 10 reps
\n170 pounds x 10 reps<\/p>\n

– Squats:<\/strong>
\n135 pounds x 10 reps
\n185 pounds x 10 reps
\n225 pounds x 10 reps
\n275 pounds x 10 reps
\n315 pounds x 10 reps<\/p>\n

– Leg Press:<\/strong>
\n2 plates per side x 10 reps
\n4 plates per side x 10 reps
\n6 plates per side x 10 reps
\n8 plates per side x 10 reps
\n10 plates per side x 10 reps<\/p>\n

– Lying Leg Curls:<\/strong>
\n50 pounds x 15 reps
\n70 pounds x 15 reps
\n90 pounds x 10 reps
\n100 pounds x 10 reps
\n110 pounds x 10 reps<\/p>\n

– Leg Extensions:<\/strong>
\n**I finished off with more leg extensions to really blast my quads hard, but this time I did reverse pyramid sets**<\/em>
\n170 pounds x 10 reps
\n150 pounds x 10 reps
\n130 pounds x 10 reps
\n110 pounds x 10 reps
\n90 pounds x 15 reps
\n50 pounds x 25 reps<\/p>\n

Trust me after this workout my legs were like jelly and I had no problems feeling my quads working! <\/p>\n

So if you’re looking for a change of pace with your leg workouts why not give this Pre-Exhaust Leg Workout<\/strong> a try and then leave me a comment below letting me know how you like it.<\/p>\n

And if you would like help with choosing the best workouts for each muscle group, than I highly recommend that you sign up for my VIP “Inner Circle”<\/em> Coaching Club at: www.TotalFitnessBodybuilding.com<\/u><\/a> <\/p>\n

As a member of the “Inner Circle”<\/em> Coaching Club you’ll get on going training and nutritional advice, including the Workout Of The Month<\/a> program. This is where you’ll get a brand new training program each month. Each “Workout Of The Month”<\/strong> builds on the previous month’s training and is specifically designed to help you make continuous progress over the long term towards your muscle building goals. <\/p>\n

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Do you find it hard to isolate and get a good pump throughout your quadriceps when training legs? A lot of people find it difficult to feel their quads working when doing leg exercises like squats and leg presses. But there is killer trick you can use to help bring up those stubborn quads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leg-workouts","category-workout-routines"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p36tGh-nZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leehayward.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}