leg training

TRAINING DAY: FOUAD ABIAD IFBB Pro Fouad "Hoss" Abiad explains how he built a new set of wheels for 2011 Sean Andros Photography by: Pavel Ythjall FLEX: How did you structure your leg workouts in the past year to make the improvements you’ve been after? FOUAD ABIAD: Hany [Rambod...

BUILDING BIG LEGS If you're looking to turn those flimsy, embarrassing legs into meaty, manly, badonk-a-donk quads, follow this surefire routine to ensure you pack the meat onto those massive stems, getting them to the size of tree trunks. June 23, 2008 Written by the FLEX staff...

Training Day: Kai Greene Check out Kai's intense leg workout. By Sean Andros For quads, you jumped on the leg extension and once again looked like a fine tuned machine. Why do you keep your reps around 20? I am able to generate great power at 20 reps, and working to failure in this rep...

Training Day: Kai Greene Check out Kai's intense leg workout. By Sean Andros Next up is the lying leg curl where you really got things moving. You move like a machine on this exercise and there appears to be a perfect mind-muscle connection. Explain what you are thinking and feeling...

Training Day: Kai Greene Check out Kai's intense leg workout. By Sean Andros Kai Greene’s leg workout was like a symphony. Not a classical symphony like a work by Beethoven or Mozart, but rather a symphony of organized confusion filled with dissonance and fury. There was a harmony of...

QUAD THRUST Build big quads without busting your back July 21, 2008 Written by FLEX Staff This program is based on the use of three exercises (leg extensions, leg presses and hack squats) that directly target the quadriceps with little stress placed on the hamstrings and calves...

PRO TRAINING PARTNER: MERIZA DEGUZMAN Variety is the key for complete leg development August 5, 2009 FLEXONLINE.COM For Meriza DeGuzman, the 2009 IFBB California Pro Figure fourth place finisher, having great quads, hams and glutes means doing more than just one or two exercises on leg...

KYLE: LUNGES OVER EXTENSIONS Ms. Olympia dishes about lunges November 10, 2009 FLEXONLINE.COM Iris Kyle won her fifth Ms. Olympia on September 25. The 35-year-old Kyle has also been Ms. International five times. Her legs are particularly stupendous, and she spoke with us about the...

MONSTER-TRUCK-SIZED WHEELS The '09 Mr. O runner-up tells you how to grow lower limbs December 1, 2009 FLEXONLINE.COM Before this year his highest Olympia placing was eighth and he was twelfth at his previous O, but Branch Warren broke into the big time in September with a stunning second...

FINE-TUNE YOUR QUADS New pro Nathan Detracy details his quad work December 29, 2009 FLEXONLINE.COM After taking the overall (as a light-heavy) at the 2007 Emerald Cup, 5'5" Nathan Detracy won the middleweight class of the 2008 USA Championships and then triumphed in the same class at the...

ARMBRUST: QUAD Q&A Heather Armbrust answers quad questions February 15, 2010 FLEXONLINE.COM What a difference a year makes. After falling to also-ran status (14th out of 17) in the 2008 Ms. Olympia, Heather Armbrust roared back in 2009 and nearly climbed all the way to the top when she...

TAVERNIER’S QUADS We got the surprising little big man to share his quad training tips and a typical quad routine. We got the surprising little big man to share his quad training tips and a typical quad routine. August 30, 2011 FLEXONLINE.COM One of the biggest surprises of 2011 is...

PUTNAM’S QUAD QUIZ Peter Putnam tests your quad training IQ March 30, 2010 FLEXONLINE.COM After an impressive amateur career that saw him win the light-heavy class in both the USA's (2007) and Nationals (2008), Tennessean Peter Putnam placed sixth in last year’s Jacksonville Pro 202...

<IFRAME height=349 src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3nfN-9WC9Zc" frameBorder=0 width=560 allowfullscreen></IFRAME> Branch Warren trains legs 5 weeks out from 2011 Mr. Olympia

QUAD ESSENTIALS How heavy basics built Charles Dixon’s quads May 26, 2010 FLEXONLINE.COM As you will soon see, there’s nothing fancy about Charles Dixon’s quad training. And that’s refreshing. Too many bodybuilders over-think leg day, coming up with pre-exhausting, supersetting...

POPA’S QUADS Alina Popa dishes her back-to-basics quad philosophy. Alina Popa dishes her back-to-basics quad philosophy. May 17, 2011 FLEXONLINE.COM So far, Romania’s Alina Popa is the biggest bodybuilding surprise of 2011. After a distant eighth in her only other pro show, she...