Hi all,
I have been training for 6 mths now and have been making good progress, had a meet up recently with couple of MT members and have tweaked my routine to help improve and I'm happy with the results. (Thank you again you know who you are
).
Well I have a new query. I do a 4 day split session and do legs on Friday but after every leg session I am stiff until Monday, without fail. I am better in that at least I can sit down these days without it hurting, but every week my thighs, butt and hamstrings are all stiff.
Would it help if I did 2 leg sessions per week instead of one? I say this because I was stiff doing upper body in the early days but this is minimal now and wondered although I only do one of each upper body area workout each week you still have to use the rest of your upper body on every upper body day so by increasing to 2 sessions per week will it make me less stiff?
Or am I still doing too much on my legs and just need to reduce what I do in a session?
I usually do:
3 sets of 12 squats holding 12kg dbs (used to be 4 sets of everything)
3 sets of 12 SLDL holding 15kg dbs
3 sets of 12 walking lunges holding 12kg dbs
and standing calf exercises.
Have a knee problem so leg extensions are more or less out and in my usual gym no proper leg equipment hence the above. If I go with son to the other gym I will vary routine slightly as they have hack machines, hamstring machines etc.
So is it normal to be stiff week on week if only doing 1 session, is it more an age thing (over 40), should I be doing 2 sessions to help reduce stiffness or am I still doing too much in my routine?