Pics wouldn’t hurt so that at least you can get an opinion from others about how your legs look compared to your upper body.
Regarding legs - you coul dlower th efrequency, but you can also lower the intensity. Lets say, for example, 10 sets of 8 reps and X pounds leaves your fried and you don’t need to build that much muscle. Well, you could do 3 setx of 8 reps at 80%X pounds and probably recover just fine. It will keep your legs in shape, but not over develop them compared to your upper body.
Do just a little bit of work is usually a whole lot better than doing no work.
Responding to some of the others, I know a guy who really doesn’t need to do legs. It’s not that he has great legs. It’s that he has really good legs compared to his upper body. If he shifted his load so that he worked his upper body 50% harder and the legs 50% less, he would have a much better physique.
[quote]McMusclesNHam wrote:
Recovery is what I was getting at. If legs are going to tax my body and lead to slowing down PR’s in upper body lifts Id rather not do them. But if they wont and will help my upper body in some way I could see myself doing them…
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Setting new PR’s with legs would, but maintaining muscles doesn’t dig into recovery (at least not much). Just half the volume but keep the intensity up (e.g. if you did 3-4 sets before, do 1-2 sets with the same load).
Besides just the fact that it’s pointless playing catch up later on, your leg training will greatly contribute to better partitioning during a bulk (puts the nutrients in the right places instead of around your ass/waist/legs as much lol).
[quote]McMusclesNHam wrote:
Recovery is what I was getting at. If legs are going to tax my body and lead to slowing down PR’s in upper body lifts Id rather not do them. But if they wont and will help my upper body in some way I could see myself doing them…
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Setting new PR’s with legs would, but maintaining muscles doesn’t dig into recovery (at least not much). Just half the volume but keep the intensity up (e.g. if you did 3-4 sets before, do 1-2 sets with the same load).
Besides just the fact that it’s pointless playing catch up later on, your leg training will greatly contribute to better partitioning during a bulk (puts the nutrients in the right places instead of around your ass/waist/legs as much lol).[/quote]
[quote]McMusclesNHam wrote:
Recovery is what I was getting at. If legs are going to tax my body and lead to slowing down PR’s in upper body lifts Id rather not do them. But if they wont and will help my upper body in some way I could see myself doing them…
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Setting new PR’s with legs would, but maintaining muscles doesn’t dig into recovery (at least not much). Just half the volume but keep the intensity up (e.g. if you did 3-4 sets before, do 1-2 sets with the same load).
Besides just the fact that it’s pointless playing catch up later on, your leg training will greatly contribute to better partitioning during a bulk (puts the nutrients in the right places instead of around your ass/waist/legs as much lol).[/quote]
Really? Just from 1-2 sets x2-3 a week?[/quote]
Depends on your body, but generally yeah. I got good results from something similar (not optimal for complete development bodybuilding-wise, but still worked). Obviously, if a person were lifting girly wieghts it wouldn’t have much effect I’m talking about onced really well warmed/ramped up though (so some “warmups” could count towards stimulus too…just not draining/too demanding).
Anyone tried anything similar? See any major issues with overlap or imbalance? Im aware this one is going to be low in Back volume but there will be hefty amount of Rear Delt work on Shoulder days.
Perhaps this type of split would work for the OP too.
No evidence but imagine you achieve this monstrous upper body the can lift large weights that you strive for. You will look horrendous with smaller legs that you decidedly don’t train. That much is for sure. That should be enough in itself to train them. Anecdotal evidence suggests that you can only increase muscle mass and strength with the increase of nerve force. What better way to increase nerve force then heavy weights your whole body has to support? Also do you really think your body, a precision machine based on homeostasis, will let such a extremely large imbalance continue to no end? I hazard a guess and I think most on here would that those upper body prs will stop if only train your legs 12 times a year…
Anyone tried anything similar? See any major issues with overlap or imbalance? Im aware this one is going to be low in Back volume but there will be hefty amount of Rear Delt work on Shoulder days.
Perhaps this type of split would work for the OP too.[/quote]
Chest/Bis
Legs
OFF
Shoulders/Tri
OFF
Back
OFF
Or
Chest
Bicep/Quad
OFF
Shoulders/Tri
off
Back/Hams
OFF
Anyone tried anything similar? See any major issues with overlap or imbalance? Im aware this one is going to be low in Back volume but there will be hefty amount of Rear Delt work on Shoulder days.
Perhaps this type of split would work for the OP too.[/quote]
Chest/Bis
Legs
OFF
Shoulders/Tri
OFF
Back
OFF
Or
Chest
Bicep/Quad
OFF
Shoulders/Tri
off
Back/Hams
OFF
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Is this what youd plan on using or a suggestion for me? (: If you want an opinion on your own split youd need to tell us what you want/need to bring up the most. For instance Id never need a whole day for chest.
[quote]hastalles wrote:
I strongly recommend reading through HOOOOOOGEdude1990’s posts. Amusing to say the least.[/quote]
LOLOLOLOLOL. Thanks for that. Just in case anyone is wondering, Hugedude claims he is 11.5% body fat as determined by underwater weighing. I’ll just leave you to ponder that.
I’m talking about onced really well warmed/ramped up though (so some “warmups” could count towards stimulus too…just not draining/too demanding).
