Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Thinking out loud: Two different leg days

Ever since i have seen that Will Tennyson video about his legs, and him having two different leg days, it makes me wonder if i should also have two different leg days. I know that i am still a beginner and i should first get the basics right, but i still feel like i should look at that so i can implement it in the future. I might have to research which muscles i want to target, and which exercises target the same muscles. Maybe even do a more glute heavy day vs an actual proper leg day, i don't know. I will have to figure it out. I think this month (April) i will mainly just figure out all the exercises that i do want to implement and do and be comfortable with. And then in May i could start playing around with having two different leg days. My leg days at home will always be different from my other days regardless. And what kind of sucks is that next week i have mon/wed/fri as my gym days, but the gym is closed on Monday due to Easter. This is exactly why i want to start gaining more muscle at the gym, so i can figure out what dumbbells i can buy for home. I also want to start looking into a barbell with some weights, as i think practicing squats at home will help with being more comfortable doing them in the gym (like i did with the romanian dumbbell deadlift).

I am nervous tho about going to the gym tomorrow because i am going to do something new (the cable kickbacks) and also i need to figure out if they have the hack squat machine. I will probably not implement it this month yet, but it is something i am very interested in implementing so i want to know if they have it or not. 

All in all, i have many plans! It just sucks that i have to figure everything out myself, instead of... you know... my trainer doing that for me. There is another gym next door to the gym i am currently going to and it seems more serious (i have seen more gym bros going there) and i wonder if the trainer there would've put me on a better program. Unfortunately, i didn't like the atmosphere at that gym (too much testosterone) so now i am stuck with this gym till at least next year, since i paid for a one year membership.

I think i will have to wait it out and see how much i will be progressing the coming months, and i might just work-out at the other gym for like a day, since they have a one day free type of thing there. And then see if i would rather go there. I feel that, especially regarding strength training, i will be making better friends there than the gym i am currently going to. And i feel that they would be better at giving advice also.

The gym that i currently go to doesn't even have a lot of buff people. Most people look mediocre. My best friend, who i started working out with at home in December, looks more buff than 99% of the people who i have seen at my gym so far, which is absolutely weird. He started out as a pretty skinny guy and has only been doing things on his pull up bar and things with his 10kg dumbbell, while these guys have access to way higher weights, and yet he looks more buff. Very weird! 

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