Does anyone know why this happens:
When doing even light leg exercise before my legs have recovered from previous leg work out, my hamstring sometimes turn stiff and start hurting, but the stiffness and weird sensation lasts only for about 15-20min. It’s this weird kind of slight pain, it almost feels like someone put an electric pulse massager on my hamstrings.
Eat bananas and do yoga!
The issue is the light leg work. Every leg day should be heavy squats, @$$ to the ground, until exhaustion. Use a cane if you need to in order to walk around the first couple of weeks. But never go lighter. In time, you’ll sprint around with no pain whatsoever and chuckle at the Biebers in the leg press machine, doing their theme park version of leg day and drinking their Muscle Milk, congratulating themselves on a job well done and acting as if they have turned in actual work.
Bulgarian split squat or hacksaw.
Let’s be real, though — in Platz’s case, genetics played a huge part. And of course, ‘roids, because as Arnie said in Pumping Iron…”back then, it was LEGAL!” If everyone did such a workout, we would not expect the gym to be filled with Platz-style leg Adonises; rather, I would expect to continue seeing a series of legs that appear to be rendered by a child drawing stick figures, which, in many chain gyms, is definitely the case.
I respectfully disagree. My legs have never been bigger than when I was doing a similar light weight / high rep / almost zero rest programming.
Well, my upper legs. My calves are a lost cause.
I’m very happy about your light program success, but I’m sorry to hear about your calves. Many find it can be debilitating to achieve a certain quality of life once the calves degenerate down to a certain size, but there are programs that can help.
You may be on to something there… The r value between my calf size and quality of life is not exactly 1, but it’s not far removed.
This stimulated a laugh response from me. By the way, implants are always a last resort. Many find their confidence boosted knowing that they can wear shorts or swim trunks without shame after the procedure. Results will differ.
Short of that, I think you might ask Nerdy how he achieved his calves. He posted a pic a few weeks back of his calf. If you can look past the particle board office furniture and the bottle of Jurgens prominently displayed on his desktop, you’ll see he’s done something right with calf development. Perhaps with that program, you too can turn your calves into COWS!!!
its literally muscles upon muscles. i literally get comments every time. when i run/walk.
I’m astonished. I was sure Nerdy was a 100% bench press & bicep curl guy.
Nah I just run 60min a day. I don’t lift. Not even my 110 lb chick.