I hate Lifting Legs
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I know, I know, legs are one of the most important muscles and you can't skip them... But I still hate doing them. And not just because it doesn't give you a good pump and inflate your upper muscles, but mainly because I can't stand being sore for a week after every time I do some squats.
After taking a break from lifting, primarily to work on this site, I finally started aggressively hitting the gym again (about 3 weeks ago). In my beginning phases of getting back in shape, I always skip legs the first few weeks because I just I know that the second I do a serious leg workout, I'm going to be walking around like an old man for the next week.
Finally, a few days ago, I manned up and did a squat routine, followed by leg press. I did an intense ab workout that day as well (abs are my specialty). Walking out of the gym, I was nearly falling down the stairs because my legs and abdomen were so drained. By the end of the night, I could already feel the soreness setting in. Considering my soreness doesn't reach it's peak until about 2 days later, I knew I was in for a rough set of days.
It's not just walking funny for a few days that's bothering me. I can't get a good workout in the gym when my legs are so sore. For instance, I like to use dumbbells as the core tool for my chest workout, and I find myself struggling to get proper dumbbell press position when throwing the weights back and lying on the bench. I found it much harder to stabilize myself, and since I didn't have a spotter, I held back on upping my weight. So in my opinion, that was a wasted workout.
Leg fanatics stress the importance of legs, and I'm well aware or their importance, so don't think that I'm saying legs aren't important. But you have to agree that legs are very very annoying to get back in shape. Anyways, I'm going to waddle off to the gym now to do traps and lats.
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on 2/14/2008
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