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Startingover

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For bit of time now I've made these together a day.
I personally love the combo.
Seen improvement in my Quads also deads have went up.
8 to 15 reps and last 1 or 2 sets drop sets till pretty much failure.
3 moves for Quads
5 sets deads.

Just putting this out there
If ya try it out?

Let me know what ya think?
 
I haven't documented it Mk.
Really wasnt ex9ecting growth in quads.
ill keep track for bit now and see if growth still happens for here?
 
I do squats but not dead’s, Ill do rack pulls instead on back days, Safer for your lower back. I also don’t take these to failure, pretty close but not worth risking injury.
 
Startingover said:
Yes
Not failure how bout fatigued?
I also keep tempo up.
Minimal rest more for cardio.
Make sense Nood?
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With these types of movements it’s better to take
Proper rest and make sure your form is on point. If You go in fatigued it’s asking for an injury. I try to progress each week but I’ll do hack squats and leg press to push myself to failure, these will be on the higher rep side
 
Startingover said:
Yes
Not failure how bout fatigued?
I also keep tempo up.
Minimal rest more for cardio.
Make sense Nood?
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Cardio should be separate from weight training. You want to rest adequately before every lift especially deads and squats. That's how you get the most out of every set. You only burn a few hundred calories from weight training and short rest doesn't add much to it.
 
Meetketchup said:
Cardio should be separate from weight training. You want to rest adequately before every lift especially deads and squats. That's how you get the most out of every set. You only burn a few hundred calories from weight training and short rest doesn't add much to it.
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Cardio was bad term
Heartrate
Im hearing all concerns and taking them in guys.
I assure you it isn't perky jerky no form injury type shit.
Im not young as I was and I'm very even overly conscious of an injury free session.
 
Understood
this may not be a scientific answer. Lol

Just to keep the ticker reving.
Reason why I only do HIIT training not steady cardio+ its boring.
Guess its pretty much same reason why I'm a fast tempo guy?
I can get off track fast if I'm not tuned in.
Longer breaks just dont appeal to me.
 
When I was attempting to get strong to do a few potential powerlifting meets my deads sucked completely... My buddy explained to me the bottom part of the dead is like a leg press off the floor.. press and explode up with your quads then towards the top it turns into a shrug exercise... I tried it but I completely sucked at deads... No matter what I did it was all lower back so I said fuck it... So pairing a leg press exercise (deads) with squats should increase quad size..
 
The way I look at it nowadays is this....

We are all getting older.
A huge part of old age is the risk of falling.
ALWAYS train legs, don't need to be squats but extensions/Curls/Leg press
to really strengthen yourself so you can get up if you fall.

A test my Dr had me do was to kneel on the floor, body up... and try to stand without having to put your hands on the bent leg. OR any objects.
Just leg strength alone.

Get em strong brother.... don't wanna be laying on the floor until somebody finds you,
 
Startingover said:
Understood
this may not be a scientific answer. Lol

Just to keep the ticker reving.
Reason why I only do HIIT training not steady cardio+ its boring.
Guess its pretty much same reason why I'm a fast tempo guy?
I can get off track fast if I'm not tuned in.
Longer breaks just dont appeal to me.
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Not to sound like a jerk, but if you can constantly go back and forth super setting squats and deadlifts you're not doing much when it comes to lifting. Just going through the movements.

The end of the day though. It's your training and if you find enjoyment out of it then that matters.
 
Swapping heavy squats to high rep work on leg day completely changed my lower back fatigue.
 
I was a grappler first and foremost. So, I trained for explosive power. So, my main lifts were power cleans, clean and press, continental cleans, dead lifts, presses from the rack. Press shrugs from the rack, weighted dips. That's what built the base of my strength. Later in my late 20s and on I shifted to more bodybuilding style training. I will believe to my death that those compound lifts are what builds that base. I was natural through that too. I would post the weights but people would say bullshit because I was natural and barely broke 178 lbs.
 
Wardamn said:
Not to sound like a jerk, but if you can constantly go back and forth super setting squats and deadlifts you're not doing much when it comes to lifting. Just going through the movements.

The end of the day though. It's your training and if you find enjoyment out of it then that matters.
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I dont superset them.
 
Glycomann said:
I was a grappler first and foremost. So, I trained for explosive power. So, my main lifts were power cleans, clean and press, continental cleans, dead lifts, presses from the rack. Press shrugs from the rack, weighted dips. That's what built the base of my strength. Later in my late 20s and on I shifted to more bodybuilding style training. I will believe to my death that those compound lifts are what builds that base. I was natural through that too. I would post the weights but people would say bullshit because I was natural and barely broke 178 lbs.
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Respect, that's a serious base for a grappler. Compound lifts like cleans and deadlifts really do build that foundation, no bullshit.
 

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