Chicken Legs Don’t Happen :
“Dude, I’m at planet fitness. The mood in the air doesn’t involve training legs. When in rome – at the moment I’m captain upper body man.”
I said the above word for word at some point in the last couple of weeks. The guy I was talking to saying he needs to do more leg work, me saying I don’t bother at present.
It’s funny, starting out with weights I squatted primarily.
Now I barely train legs, and yet…they’re fine.
I feel my quads firing during the weighted pushups.
That’s how you get through the sticking point. You fire quads as hard as possible. It’s possible that I now could use leg drive on a bench. If I was to bench.
Everything is firing during the weighted pushup position planks.
I’m still explosive.
Occasionally I’ll hit some kneeling jumps or goof around cossack dancing.
From the many kick ups into handstands I feel my legs worked in a very athletic feeling way.
When I do a wrestler’s bridge pullovers or holds it’s a leg static too.
The body doesn’t like growing very far out of proportion.
Even without much leg focus they’ll develop to match upper body gains.
The body isn’t going to build a brick shithouse on top of a stork/stilt looking support structure.
And that’s with all the time I spend on my hands in training.
I’m entirely okay with my upper body developed a bit more heavily in proportion to my legs.
It won’t go too far, EVER.
The legs will always match.
Maybe at 60/40 instead of 50/50 even, which is fine.
I can always throw in some swamp lunges. They pair real well with upper body calisthenics.
I don’t even need to oly or high rep overhead squat.
My legs are fine with the current training.
“Chicken legs don’t happen.” -J