Cathy Vail leg workout 8-16-07

[kylepounds]

Now that's what I'm talking about! You're awesome! How about some full squats? Max reps on leg ext. with six plates? max full squats with 135, max smith squat with 225? I wish I could film myself at 24 hour fitness. Do you do squat cleans?

[biggunz245]

Gotta go down another couple inches on the squat.

Otherwise good form, awesome lifts.

[xjiggzx]

i wanna eat this girls ass

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

4) Straight-legged deadlifts will do a better job of stretching her hamstrings and give her more flexibility.

5) After doing leg presses and squats, I can't think of any reason that she would need leg extensions...all of that will probably amount to over-training for her.

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

Again, you are wrong. Lifting weights is a great way to improve flexibility. You can limit how far you push your ROM - in this case she would not be able to stretch farther than the dumbbells hitting the floor in the stiff-legged deadlift.

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

1) I agree with you about the country music.

2) Doing leg presses before squats is a great way to pre-exhaust the legs, thereby putting more stress on the legs during squats and less strain on the lower back.

3) She should be going down into a full squat; she might have a flexibility problem.

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

I disagree with you and so do many of the all-time greats such as Mike Mentzer, Casey Viator and Dorian Yates - all of whom believed in pre-exhaustion for leg workouts as well as all other body parts.

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

And I am a gym owner and have lived and breathed this stuff for more than 35 years, have trained thousands of people, including many top bodybuilders and athletes. I have found that most "doctors" like you that simply learned things out of a book don't have a clue when they get in the gym - and you have proven it by stating that pre-exhaustion does not build functional mass - what a ridiculous statement to make.

[ericsgym]

Pre-exhaustion is one of the most effective ways to train ever devised...anyone that says "Pre-exhaustion is fine in some extenuating circumstances, but simply is not as conductive to providing functional mass" has no idea what they are talking about.

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

You said, "Well I'm a doctor of exercise science with 6 years experience in working with and conducting front line research"

I seriously doubt that you are after reading some of the statements that you have made here. If you have a degree then you must have gotten your diploma out of a Cracker-Jack box.

[856893tfr]

@KaseyAkira

oh boy you are a pretentious one arent you? hey any bodybuilder will train wrong any day of the week. its obvious by the amount of videos we see, that they have not good form. but let me tell you, booksmart people about working out, have no clue when they get in the gym. i gotta admit, ericsgym is correct. preexhaustion is worthless. the tricep will STILL give out on the bench anyway. why pre-exhaust it?

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

You said,"let whatever exhaust first get the most growth, be it any muscle group. That muscle group becomes stronger, so it is not the limiting factor in the next workout"

This is faulty logic and not based on science as the smaller muscle groups will ALWAYS exhaust before the larger ones...triceps will always fail before pecs, biceps before lats, etc. Hence, pre-exhaust becomes an invaluable tool for maximum development.

[ericsgym]

KaseyAkira:

You said, "I guess 80+ years of research are just wrong then."

I don't know exactly what you thought you read in research or if you are just throwing that statement out to try to make yourself look good...I just know that the statements you have made in here ARE wrong!

Either go back to school or get in the gym and learn it right because you are posting training fallacies in here. You really DON"T know what you are talking about.

[worstjobever]

Nice glutes