I haven't done a straight leg day in awhile but have been working out on average about 3 times a week the past few months due to time constraints. A few days ago I decided to get back into more focused leg work so I did the standing portion only of GS Legs. This is the 3rd day after my workout and my calves are still screaming and yesterday my booty area was so sore I had trouble getting into my car! However my hamstrings and quads are not sore at all!! So I'm thinking the title is GS Legs but my legs aren't sore at all. Do you think it's b/c my backside just needs to workup some strength or could my form be off?? I'm not new to working out with Cathe by any means. I didn't go super heavy either. For squats had 10 lb plates on my barbell. For the lunges I used 8's like Cathe did and could only do one set of Slo Mo Lunges per leg. Anyone have the same experience?
Gym Style "Legs"??
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firemedic
Cathlete
My legs are much stronger than my butt and hips. I think because of all the cardio/plyo moves, I'm always working my legs and calves. But my hips/butt area I like to always add extra 2 days per week just to make sure I stay more balanced. The only time my calves seem to get sore is only with the calve work Cathe does in 4 Day Split. That one gets me every time. I did Butts and Guts yesterday and I am feeling a little more tightness in my butt today. Maybe just do add ons like the floor sections in Great Glutes, Butts and Guts, or even some turbo barre on other days just to get those less worked areas.
maddiesmum
Cathlete
I wouldn't worry about it at all. Just because your legs aren't screaming, doesn't mean they didn't get worked. Just that, the quads are stronger than the glutes, as they are for many of us. The fact that these 2 areas are where you are feeling it --glutes and calves-- just means that this particular configuration of exercises and reps and weights had an effect. This is why it's good to mix things up, keep challenging yourself. Nothing to fret over.
Fitness is like gardening and many other activities to which we dedicate ourselves: while you are busy working over here on one aspect, it necessarily means that another area is currently out of focus and cannot be maintained to the same status it previously was, so it stays where it is or slips a little until you focus on it again and put it back into the spotlight. It's normal, because you cannot be everywhere all at once, because you cannot focus on everything all at once. Fitness, and gardening, and most other activities, are a process. We will never reach perfection, where everything is perfectly callibrated and evenly tuned. Such a status is a zenith best held as a goal, but in full knowledge that perfection is always just slightly out of reach and quite possibly not even desirable? Thank heavens, because if we reached it, then we'd stop, give up trying and become impossible to live with!
Clare
Fitness is like gardening and many other activities to which we dedicate ourselves: while you are busy working over here on one aspect, it necessarily means that another area is currently out of focus and cannot be maintained to the same status it previously was, so it stays where it is or slips a little until you focus on it again and put it back into the spotlight. It's normal, because you cannot be everywhere all at once, because you cannot focus on everything all at once. Fitness, and gardening, and most other activities, are a process. We will never reach perfection, where everything is perfectly callibrated and evenly tuned. Such a status is a zenith best held as a goal, but in full knowledge that perfection is always just slightly out of reach and quite possibly not even desirable? Thank heavens, because if we reached it, then we'd stop, give up trying and become impossible to live with!
Clare
~Elsie
Cathlete
This is me. Plus, I have to really laser focus on my quads to work them properly and evenly and remember to relax my psoas, otherwise they take all of the stress. I learned in my fascial self-release course work that was dealing with neurokinetic feedback (just a small part of the course) that my psoas were interfering with my lower body training.
Stacy, perhaps you could try slowing down some of the movements? Congrats on your sore bum that'll serve you well in the future!
Some folks find it quite difficult to get all three muscle of the glutes strengthened so well!