She's Got Legs....

How many sets did you do for each of the leg exercises when all was said and done?  I never seem to get past 4 sets and then my strength starts to dwindle.  Its looks like a lot of volume.  I know when I worked with Sean I would be upwards of 10 sets on some exercises (including warmups) but found I could never keep the weight as high when I did that.  How do you structure all those sets to keep your strength up, or is it merely keeping at it, and in time the strength will come?

Hmmm..

Not sure on the total number of sets, Annette, but I definitely did not do 10 sets of any exercise! INcluding warm ups perhaps it got that high, but not on all exercises.

I focused less on counting the number of sets and more on working up to a certain number of reps and the feel of the exercise.

My workout didn't take over an hour.

That is a good idea.  To go for a number of reps and do as many sets as it takes to get those reps.  I think it may allow you to listen to your body more.  One set may take 10 reps and one you may only squeeze out 5, so you need to add another set instead of lowering the weight so you can get all ten reps into the set.  I like it.

DId something different yesterday for legs. Wanted some cardio and wasn't going to get it in later, so I combo'd them.

Did hill interval and hack squat supersets for about 8 sets just progressively increasing weight on hack by increments of 25 lbs and the speed from 5.0 to 5.5 to 6.0 and so on, with a hill level of 5.0. Ugh. As the weight got heavier and my legs were more and more fatigued the hill was pretty freaking miserable.

I moved into stationary barbell lunges next, progressively increasing from the bar to 10 on each side to 20 on each side to 30 on each side until I could only do 10 reps per leg. I did hill intervals about 5x and then called those quits and moved into leg extensions (did 3 sets here of 21s increasing the weight each set).

Ended with a good 20 minute progressive hill run....speed not happening after all the leg work. ;)

I am not walking very well today.