Of all my workouts, my least favorite is Leg day, I dread it. It’s also arguably, the most important. After all it’s your legs that hold you up every day. And of all the Leg exercises, the Squat is the best over-all exercise. The squat works your Quads, glutes, hamstrings, calves and lower back. But Leg Day is so important that I make sure to do it every week. Leg day is the most taxing on me. My heart is really beating heavy, I sweat the most on leg day and I’m totally spent after that workout.
I plan the following weeks work-outs right after my last workout of the present week. I set new goals according to what I did in the previous week. I either add weights or reps to each exercise or change an exercise. Even with the goals & plans during most workouts I do extra sets or reps in addition to my goals or sometimes even add an exercise after I finished my planned exercises. But I dread leg day so much that I just stick to my plan and only do what I have written down. I get in and get it done and get out. That’s the way you have to do it for exercises or workouts that need to be done but you don't particularly enjoy (or anything else that needs to be done, for that matter). Don’t even think about it, just do it.
One day I’ll learn to love Squats and Lunges, but right now for me, they are just a necessary evil. And hopefully they will help me with my cycling, come springtime.
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