9 Legit Reasons to Skip Leg Day

[TruthSeeker]

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[The Light Among Darkness]

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9 Legit Reasons To Skip Leg Day

Great piece as always. Most people need guidance at the beginning pertaining their goals in the gym. There are not many people who are willing to go against crowd by saying squats are overrated.

[Jonesy]

Really enjoyed the latest articles mate. What do you mean when you say "protect your ground"?

[TruthSeeker]

Really enjoyed the latest articles mate. What do you mean when you say "protect your ground"?

I meant to protect your true priorities rather than serving ungrateful masters.

[Ramy_Saber]

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9 Legit Reasons To Skip Leg Day

I think if you do front squats and romanian deadlifts as your main leg exercises then its like training your back when you do legs, so its not that bad since erector spinae help increase your sexual attraction.

Otherwise agreed on every point. The stubborn mule in me still trains calves. However I do them while supporting the bar with a clean grip so my back also gets worked with these. 

To be fair on leg day, training your arms religiously could also be seen as a waste of time, you get more admiration for it but spending up to 3 days in the gym dedicated to training arms just for perhaps 2 inches of growth on such a small body part, might have been considered lunacy 200 years ago?

When I was in college I used to do parallel dips like once every two days if I recall for a time. I remember stagnating and actually being able to do less and less dips. Now I only do dips once a week (I still train chest, tris and shoulders twice a week however) and each time I do them I can normally do a few extra reps on the initial set.

Agree with you totally. I was focusing to do this procoll. Doing Fsquat and DL mainly for erectors and quads. But though it looks good in theory it also sadly builds (ass) more efficiently and quickly than building quads and erector (that happened with me) and it feels odd  
I started to think seriously on avoiding them or at least doin one set.  My only problem is that DL is the best for erectors and yes ( it givea the back an wonderful look).
Do you suggest a movment for erectors and lower back other than DL?

[TruthSeeker]

I think that the deadlift is superior to hyper-extensions. I have done a lot of both and the deadlift definitely did more for me.

[Plato]

I still do squat's I think it good movement . I like to train for flexibility and just so I CAN BE ACTIVE in real life . and so if the time is need to protect myself .

[The Light Among Darkness]

After a year of training legs a natty who wants to look good should focus on the muscle groups that matter: shoulders/arms/abs/chest and maybe back. Doing 1-2 sets a week to maintain the legs is enough unless you are a pro or an athlete that requires the leg strength.

[The Light Among Darkness]

After a year of training legs a natty who wants to look good should focus on the muscle groups that matter: shoulders/arms/abs/chest and maybe back. Doing 1-2 sets a week to maintain the legs is enough unless you are a pro or an athlete that requires the leg strength.

Maybe back? 

Nothing looks more aesthetic than thick spinae erectors and a sloping trapezius.

traps make narrow frame look even more narrow due to sloping. Take narrow pros and edit out their traps - they will have a broad "T" look to them. 

 Most guys on covers are facing with their front, right? Not saying you should not train it, but if somebody decided to train for attention, they need to focus on attention grabbing muscles and most people evaluate you from the front where they can see our face, chest, shoulders, abs and arms.

Yes, in ideal world one should train everything, but when was the last time you trained your mandibles? What about your foot's :Abductor Hallucis?

[The Light Among Darkness]

After a year of training legs a natty who wants to look good should focus on the muscle groups that matter: shoulders/arms/abs/chest and maybe back. Doing 1-2 sets a week to maintain the legs is enough unless you are a pro or an athlete that requires the leg strength.

Maybe back? 

Nothing looks more aesthetic than thick spinae erectors and a sloping trapezius.

traps make narrow frame look even more narrow due to sloping. Take narrow pros and edit out their traps - they will have a broad "T" look to them. 

 Most guys on covers are facing with their front, right? Not saying you should not train it, but if somebody decided to train for attention, they need to focus on attention grabbing muscles and most people evaluate you from the front where they can see our face, chest, shoulders, abs and arms.

Yes, in ideal world one should train everything, but when was the last time you trained your mandibles? What about your foot's :Abductor Hallucis?

When you walk around on the beach, you are looked at from all angles. Since you can't land yourself a cover photo on a fitness or muscle magazine without being enhanced that's quite a poor narrative to base your argument off.

Actually no, those poor souls you talk about with narrow shoulders would look even worse without any trap development. How does removing or diminishing a muscle aid ones appearance? That's why bodybuilders stopped going for the pec-delt 'tie-in' and started focusing more on lower bodyfat and more pronounced anterior deltoids, because the seperation of the deltoids from the chest creates a illusion of wider shoulders versus the tie-in effect. Same applies to the traps.

Let's not get silly. The traps and spinae erectors are not your feet. They are large muscles on the human body. Anyone who is really interested in aesthetics will train their back as seriously as they train their chest. 

I agree about legs though. Torturing yourself with burnout and fatigue just for some natty leg mass is not worth it. It receives little admiration for the amount of time put it. That's why I train my legs with front squats and RDL, at least my back gets a workout while I'm blasting through legs as fast as possible.

Serge Nubret had possibly one of the most aesthetic physiques of all time (he was enhanced but still, to illustrate), if he didn't have those sloping traps and wide back his physique just wouldn't have been the same.

Removing traps helps tho, one kid that I knew stopped "shrugging" and he looked wider the top of the shoulders created a "T". Maybe you dont have such problem, so you didnt walk in their shoes.

Sometimes too much muscle in the wrong areas can ruin the look, assuming you are into "old school" aesthetics as nowadays they all chase size everywhere with no shape.