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Illectroniqz
08-05-08, 1:37 am
I haven't really posted on the Forvm, but I just had to let you guys know that I just had the most fucking BA leg day of my life. I have been an advocate of Animal for a while, but lately I have just become fully engulfed in the lifestyle and Animal mindset. Whenever I go to the gym I completely prepare for battle and treat it like a fucking warzone, balls to the wall, but today was a different story.

I go with my boy who is like family to me and we are both equally engulfed in the lifestyle. We started out on the treadmill light for 10 minutes just to get a little warmed up. Then we hit up 4 sets of leg extensions (16-20 reps) to pre-exhaust the quads, something we never tried before. Then straight to the fucking power rack in the hot ass corner for low box squats. This is the corner of doom. There are literally rats inside the walls that you can hear screeching and gnawing from time to time. This just fuels the fire. Set it off with 135x10, then 185x8, 225x8, then say fuck it throw 275 on. Feels pretty easy at first but the pain kicks in - im lovin' it. I dig deep and think about the animal lifestyle and how much I love the pain. I start getting tunnel vision but i keep pushing. End up getting 9 reps which was a huge fucking PR considering my previous best was 255x8. After this madness we head over to do hack squats, something we havent done in a long time. Set it off with 2 plates each side x 10, then 2.5 x 8, then 3 x 8, then 3.5 for a quad destroying 4 reps. My quads were fucking burning but i was so amped. After this we hit the leg press. 4 plates each side x 15, 5plates x 12, 5 plates x 10, my legs felt like butter but had 1 more set to go. We decided to go fucking nuts with it and do a drop set for the last one. We started with 5 plates for 8 reps, then 4 plates to failure, then 3, then 2, then 1 until destruction. This was brutality. We were fucking dying after this one, but the animal image kept us going - Blood, sweat and tears - NO excuses. RDL's next. Kept em light and strict. 4 sets of 10 with 135 - really isolate the hams. Followed up with 4 sets of leg curls and then 4 sets of standing calf raises on the smith. DONE! 2 hours later, barely able to walk, we trudge outta the gym feeling incredible. The most epic leg day of our lives. This is the new standard. The fucking animal lifestyle - this is what we live for. I drive home and get outta my car and can barely walk - with every step my legs cramp up. Slowly make it inside and intake massive amounts of nutrients.

I feel like there arent many out there that understand what we do and why we love it so much, but the animal lifestyle is not for the weak. We have a threshold for pain and suffering like no others. Its days like this that we thank Animal for keeping us so fucking motivated and asking for more. Just wanted to share with the brotherhood what you guys do for us fellow animals. Strength and honor.

Mizzarler
08-05-08, 2:36 am
Sick leg day bro, welcome.
I have legs tom and i cant wait!

roy1188
08-05-08, 2:45 am
Thats crazy, I have legs coming up too and its my favorite day, ill try to match that intensity.

SA-Hulk
08-05-08, 3:26 am
I always say you build a HOUSE from the ground up
- you seem to be building a fookin HOTEL!
Keep at those animal workouts mate - mimic that intensity with every body part!

peace

sanga
08-05-08, 8:08 am
I love training legs but also hate it, the pain, the lactic acid build up, your mind telling you to stop, its all great.

We do a lot of heavy squatting first then hit the hack squats for drop sets going to failure then forced reps before each drop, pure pain, then its off to the laeg press for more of the same then leg extention to failure.

Its all good but at the time it pure pain.

mritter3
08-05-08, 8:34 am
that workout is definitely not for the weak hearted pure animal all the way can't wait to try it, welcome man.

TylerC
08-05-08, 2:39 pm
I had a brutal leg day yesterday myself

anybody else have problems sleeping after a leg day? I can't ever get to sleep on the day i train legs, they cramp up everytime i move in bed and twitch all night long and it just hurts really bad. I dont want to take any pain medicine because those can slow down protein synthesis.

??

Ton
08-08-08, 10:41 am
Yea bro thats happened to me before too. I end up being woke up all through the night when my girlfriend brushes up on them.. cant give you any advice though really I just sucked it up. You'll fall asleep when your tired enough. Course you can always try natural stuff like chamomille and herbal sleeping remedys to help you relax. I would think most of those would have no effect on your syntesis and growth as long as you can get to rest.

biged31
08-10-08, 2:45 pm
Great workout bro, Keep pushing yourself.

airborneIRON
08-10-08, 10:30 pm
a brutal leg day always seems to be more satisfying than any other.