When you notice other trainers completing their leg days in the gym, you will very often see the same thing, anywhere you go. Far too many bodybuilders spend their legs bouncing from machine to machine, attempting to elicit a pump from the wide variety of angled plate-loaded machines and cable-based contraptions. They may justify skipping the squat rack as acceptable because they plan on using the Hammer Strength leg press machine instead. There’s a big problem with this method. Simply put, the legs just don’t grow from machines alone. If you’ve ever done squats in your life, you know how much harder they are than machine movements. Your legs are used to some stimulation most of the day. Therefore you need heavy barbell work to shock them into new growth. Here is a front thigh ...

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Human beings, being the resourceful devils that we are, always work to find ways to make things easier. We invent gadgets to cook, clean, and organize things faster. We use email to save us the time of actually going to meet people. We use a thousand shortcuts every day to save us time in a million ways. We’re masters at striving for efficiency. However, as a result, we often end up short-circuiting those gains which are derived from completing actual hard work. Standard squats can be highly beneficial for making gains – not only for the legs, but for overall muscular development. It also helps add to the quality of cardiovascular conditioning. However, standard squats are extremely tough to do. We may have the best of intentions, but when we get in the gym, ...

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