Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Quads Vol.2

I thought my knee would recover from the injury I substained while performing smith machine squats last week, but I wasn't counting on performing any squats in this last workout. I went in the gym with a positive mind and told myself that this is going to be a great workout. I started off warming up my knees with leg extensions and incorporated strecthes between each warm up set. My first exercise for that day was unilateral leg press. I like this exercise because you don't have to load out the machine with tons of weight because you putting workload on one leg as opposed to two. After pressing, I thought my knee was handling it pretty well. Since my knee felt this way I said the heck with it I'm doing squats, but this time it was the squats I like, free style. Got under 225 to warm up with and surprisingly it felt fine on my knees. We gradually worked our way up to 405, finishing with 12 reps last set. My knee after this wasn't 100% but I kept on. Next we went to the hammer strength horizontal leg press, this exercise we also performed single leg. After that we super setted the abductor/adductor machine with leg extensions. By then my quads pumped to the max. Finally we finished up with leg curls and standing leg curls. Hamstrings are often neglected when it comes to leg day or just any other day in general, we usually hit hamstrings twice a week. Overall I was happy with my workout.

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