All those shoulder presses have paid off.
It's basically the only thing that has paid off.
Admittedly, I never trained legs as hard as I should have. I probably averaged a leg workout once every two weeks...something like that. Whereas everything else, I trained pretty religiously, once weekly.
Maybe it's not even that I skipped legs...but basically, if I had to skip a workout, I would have skipped legs. Do that for decades, and it explains why I was bench pressed 335x2, but only squatting 385x2.
Though, in fairness, I NEVER see anyone squatting 405+. Maybe literally once a year, in the gym. Realistically, not even once a year.
But if my max bench was 345, I should have *probably* had a max squat of 445. Something like that.
My knee valgus has always been an issue though. See how my knees buckle here:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdm0yhpOcCU/https://www.instagram.com/reel/CdrOfeWAutO/^ That leg press only fits 10 plates per side [900-lb + the sled, which is probably around 110-lb]. It's probably the heaviest leg press I've ever used.
My goal is to max out that machine for a single.
I'm not going to complain if my max leg press is about 1,000 pounds, and my squat, around 405.
I can handle that.
But I will not be neglecting legs ever again, now that gyms are open for the dirty unvaccinated like myself, here in Canada.
On that note - what is your leg routine, Skeletor?
I was doing 12 sets total [4x for quads, hamstrings, and calves], but last week I did 12 sets for hamstrings, and that's when I realized that four sets per muscle group in the legs is not enough.
Though I'm not sure if I would want to do 36 sets in a leg workout...maybe 8x for quads, 8x for hamstrings, and 6x for calves - 22 sets total for legs, which would take a little over two hours.
Do you have any suggestions on that?
