It's time for a New Year's bump of this thread!
SSgt Burton wrote:
No. I don't train legs. I don't train abs. And I don't do cardio. Ever. I hate that stuff.
So for the first time in about
14 years I decided to start training my legs again.
Yesterday was my re-introduction. It wasn't much; four excersises. Leg extensions, hack squats (starting with no weight and going up to only 50 pounds... I used to do over 300 on this exercise back in the day), leg curls and finally seated calf raises.
Today my legs hurt, but fortunately I'm wise enough to not have overdone it... I would not have been able to walk otherwise.
I also managed to put on over five pounds over what I like to call "Junk season." Junk season starts around mid October just after Thanksgiving for us Canucks (when stores are brimming with candy for Halloween and you can't help but buy some just for yourself), and ends around January. There seems to be a never ending supply of chocolate and sweets in between (not to mention a bunch of big killer meals).
5 pounds may not seem like a lot however on my small frame it looks like it is. Normally I would not have indulged so much over the holiday season, however it seemed to be all around me at every turn (not to mention I didn't go to the gym once in December
).
So I'm back at it now! And yesterday I thought that instead of driving around aimlessly to my usual haunts killing my afternoon, I would do something productive and go to the damn gym!
I trained chest and arms on Saturday, so legs it had to be.
Over the holidays I was actually looking at some old pictures of myself (we're talking the early 90s) and was astonished at just how big my legs used to be--- funny thing was that I thought they were small back then.
So I figure I can incorporate one leg workout per week into my routine. That will get my ass to the gym at least four times a week.
Kevin