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Legs for the 40's Club

I had a really good leg workout today with my buddy Chris. It made me think about how much my leg training has changed from my 20's to my 40's.

For you guys in your 20's, there is no substitute for the bread and butter squats. No matter what anybody tells you, there is no substitute. Just remember work the muscle not the weight, good form builds good form. Keep you stance just a little wider than shoulder width, head up, chest out go down with a very controlled pace. Stop just below parrellel and drive up as fast as possible driving until just before your knees lock out. If you have a problem slumping your shoulders, drive your elbows and hips forward. This will keep your body in line and straight, Trust me it works. Try to keep you reps at a minimum of 6, anything below that is just for ego. The name of the game is squating effectively. Try to keep your time between sets around 1.5-2.0 mins that is more than enough recup time for the next set. If I remember correctly and feel free to correct me your body recups 80% within 30-40 seconds. Enough about squats for you young studs. Lets move own to the 40's guys.

What I have done to warm my knees and old muscles up is start my leg workout with off course some good stretching. Next I start off with walking ludges with dumbells, approximately 20 yards, 2-3 sets. I then go to machine controlled squats, total leg by paramont or hammer squate machine 4 sets 8-12 reps, and you cant go wrong with 21's on the hack squate, or leg presses, pick your poison. We finished them off with supper setting leg extensions with ham string curls. Final exercise was one legged hammy curls, be sure to concentrate on good form on those hams. There is nothing better than a great set of hams, it just makes a legs. FYI, another slang name used for hams back in the day, was thigh bicep, appropriate dont you think.

A little advise for you 40's guys, premedicate the day before legs workouts with a good
anti-inflamatory, and for sure use a good pre workout booster. I use Endorush, work great and dosnt make you short winded like alot of the energy drinks do. Please dont be to hard on me for the mispelled words, could not get the spell check to work.
Look forward to hearing comments from everybody, sorry I could not put 25 years of leg workout experience in one blog. My next blog I will try to take a shot, getting ripped in your 40's or maybe your 20's and 30's. Heck, everybody wants to be ripped. Have a great week and God Bless.

I am Legend

Yes, I am Legend: Man how did I get that nick name, dang hard to live up to. My buds at key supplements sure give me a hard time. Hope you guys like my quote, I promise I completely made that up on a really good day. I have recently re discovered my training again, I have never stopped in some 27 years, but just lost that fire. Training with Matt, William, and Chase has really helped me to understand these young guys are a bunch of chumps, just Kidding. It gives me hope that generation X has good work ethic and can caring the torch for us old guys. I am trying to talk myself into competing again, possible this summer at the Masters Level. I would love for my sons of 12 and 20 get a chance to see the old man show his stuff just one more time. Jury is still out on that subject, keep you all posted. For any unwanted great advice on just about any subject please feel free to drop me a line. I promise it will be interesting at the very least.

Strength Exercises without a Gym

In the last article Weight Loss I explained how important Nutrition was to losing or gaining weight. You don't need to be in a gym to do strength training muscle building exercises, this will work for anybody needing to lose or gain weight.

Exercise in the form of weight resistance training is my focus of this article today as muscle is our friend so the more we have the friendly we are.
Think about what are the largest muscles on my body as they burn the most
calories?

1-Legs

2-Abdominal muscles

3-Back

This article will focus on these muscle groups and give a couple per group you can do at home without having to go to a gym.

Remember try to work these muscle groups 3 times a week and add a cardio program of some sort into this as well.

Legs Squats will build legs muscles, all the legs muscles such as hip, butt and glutes. Begin by doing them easy as they are tough. Do them holding on a chair or wall and just dip a little try to do 10-12 this way about 3 sets just to get started. Don't go deep yet just bend the knees slightly always keeping your head up and not looking down. Rest no longer than one minute between sets.

Each person has to determine their ability but remember this the deeper you can go down the better it is for the muscle, just take it easy till you can do them without any balance issues ok.

After the squats do lunges. The link will give you an idea how to do them correctly.
Please begin slowly as these are somewhat easy but will talk to you the next
day. As in all exercises work yourself into them and as you get stronger
continue to push and advance yourself.

For a more advanced exercise try the Burpee exercise. This was one of the Marines main bodybuilding exercises. This is a wonderful cardio weight training exercise to build stamina and strength.

Abdominal muscles work together with back muscles a strong back means strong abdominal muscles, and vice versa strong abdominal muscles means a strong back. One reason why allot of people have hurting backs is they have no Abdominal muscles and to much weight pulling on the lower back.

Abs are easy to work there are allot of different ways to work them. Here is a good site to learn some really good abdominal exercises to do at home. Work your stomach muscles as you do any muscle and remember you can't burn fat in one place so doing more ab exercises won't burn stomach fat.

The back is a very important muscle group as it supports our spines and we use our back in just about every exercise we do. Good back exercises to build the back and if you suffer from back pain begin here. Please remember to start slowly but work through minor pain as the muscle you build will relieve the back from pain. After a week or so if persistent pain in the back remains you need to see what is the issue.

More advanced back workouts you can do pull-ups and push ups wide and narrow stance. This really adds muscle to the back and arms.

I will do more articles on working out without weights and provide examples to help for each muscle group. I feel this is a really good starting point for those that either can't afford to go to a gym, lack the time, or just live were there isn't one available.

Start slow get moving and enjoy the life God has so freely given all of us to enjoy and be free.

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