gym leg routine to add w/Cathe - Muscle & Fitness routine good?

[JulieL]

http://www.muscleandfitnesshers.com/hers/120804/legs.html

DH & I just got a gym membership - to suppliment our running this winter w/indoor workouts. Well I'm coming back from not working out due to pregnancy/postpartum restrictions. I'm anxious to come back to being fit. I want to add 1 or 2 days of weight workouts at the gym to my Cathe weight workouts. I have NO clue how to do a gym routine - or how the machines work. I found the above article for legs - does this look like a good routine? Any help or suggestions for a routine would be great.

thanks

 

[Maximus]

Wow, this is almost exactly what my leg workout is like. So either the mag & I are right, or I've been doing the wrong routine for years.

I do start out my leg routine either with cardio or very light squats on the smith machine. Then I do 3 sets 10 of heavy squats & 3 sets 10 of heavy lunges on the smith machine (with the lunges I actually place a step long way against the front of the machine & place my lunging foot on it--trying to build more size in the glutes). Then I do 3 sets 10 of heavy leg presses, 3 sets 12 leg extensions & 3 sets 12 ham curls. If your gym has a standing ham curl machine I definitely recommend that over the sitting machine, you will get better results/definition if you work one leg at a time.

Oh, & I usually superset 3 sets 15 standing calve raises in with one of these exercises.

 

[JulieL]

Glad to hear that Laura, thanks for responding. Do you do this once or twice a week at the gym?