S&H Legs

[Timber99]

I'm in the midst of the S&H series. I do that, along with cardio and one total body weight workout each week.

The leg section is 30 minutes and has no floor work. I push hard on the weight and feel the workout (that day and the next) but not like I feel one where I have floor work with the stability ball or ankle weights. Should I supplement with some floorwork from another routine or leave it this way for the next two weeks of the series (I am in week two, two more to go)?

 

[crazystepr]

I feel the same way. I also feel like there's not much hamstring work in this. So I add on the floor work (with the SB) from Pyramid Lower Body.

Allison

 

[BerniSimone]

Could be considered cheating, but after using S&H Legs once or twice, I decided to sub (entirely) with L&G or B&G. PLB would be another good one. I like using more endurance-based work on my lower body, but strength-based lifting for my upper body.
Bernadette

 

[Faithnveggies]

I did this workout for the first time yesterday. I think I will try to heavy up on the prefatigue wts. It was hard to lift that 50 pd bb over my head and in fact I didn't after the first two sets. We'll see how it goes the next time.

 

[kathryn]

>Could be considered cheating, but after using S&H Legs once
>or twice, I decided to sub (entirely) with L&G or B&G. PLB
>would be another good one.

I agree (and if it's 'cheating', so what!). Neither I nor my 'trick' knee like S&H legs, so I just do a different lower body workout that we all like (PLB, GSL, etc.)

 

[kathryn]

> It was hard to
>lift that 50 pd bb over my head and in fact I didn't after the
>first two sets.

Watch your shoulders! We can easily squat much more than we can safely lift overhead. I set a 'safety limit' to how much I would lift overhead (40-45#, depending on how strong I feel that day), then add a weighted vest of up to 20# to put more weight on the legs without putting that much weight on the shoulders.