STS Strength question

[elsie3]

Could you do STS Strength without going super-heavy on leg work?

One of the biggest reasons I didn't pre-order STS Strength (and yes, I'm kicking myself), was that I don't like going super-heavy on legs. I'll match Cathe on her other workouts, but I don't go over 40lbs--except for 50lbs on S&H Legs. I have short, muscular legs and they get bigger if I go heavier--I've found that out through experience.

But I really love weights, and I know the series is awesome.

Thanks for your feedback.

 

[Peaceful Rainbow]

If you don't want to do heavy leg work, you just do the plyo workout options for Meso 3. Meso 1 and 2 don't go really heavy for legs.

 

[elsie3]

If you don't want to do heavy leg work, you just do the plyo workout options for Meso 3. Meso 1 and 2 don't go really heavy for legs.

Thanks, that helps.

 

[SirenSongWoman]

Could you do STS Strength without going super-heavy on leg work?

One of the biggest reasons I didn't pre-order STS Strength (and yes, I'm kicking myself), was that I don't like going super-heavy on legs. I'll match Cathe on her other workouts, but I don't go over 40lbs--except for 50lbs on S&H Legs. I have short, muscular legs and they get bigger if I go heavier--I've found that out through experience.

But I really love weights, and I know the series is awesome.

Thanks for your feedback.

I just keep in mind something Chad Waterbury said (in relation to ab training, actually) in one of his articles: If you work a muscle it gets bigger; if you don't, it doesn't. So if you don't want a muscle to get bigger don't work it. I think of this every time I consider whether to do a move or do a move with or without light or heavy weight.

HOWEVER, from my own experience, if you have fat you need to consider how much of the girth you see is not muscle. Once the fat comes off you'll want some muscular shape. Some time back, I took Waterbury's advice and stopped working my calves because they were so wide. I was convinced the girth was muscle and my calves were already getting plenty of indirect work doing compound moves targeting my lower body. But since the fat started coming off and I can see the shapely muscles, resulting from all the prior calf work, I'm reintroducing direct calf work. Turns out, all that girth was mostly fat.
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Okay, I just found the Waterbury quote: "If a muscle group is genetically large, virtually any type of training will make it grow bigger. I'm talking everything from high volume with a light load to low volume with a heavier load will cause hypertrophy. So if your calves are big, and if you want them smaller, make a concerted effort to avoid training them. Don't even throw in a few sets of low rep calf raises in an effort to keep them strong - if you do that, they'll never shrink." This is from "The Figure Body Part Checklist" article at FigureAthlete.com.

I stand by the whole muscle/fat thing, though.