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How to shape the legs

If you are planning to pyramid your weights, should you start at your heaviest weight and go up from there or pyramid lower building up to your heaviest?  Also I do squats, lunges, deads, good mornings and weighted leg lifts or romanian chair leg lifts for legs but am still not getting the definition like I have on my upper body.  Should I do more sets? As a female, what else can I do to get this area in to some form of shape?

I start with the lighter weight of which I can do a hardy 12 to 15 reps. This set prepares me for the heavier sets to follow: warm-up, find the groove, excite and focus my mind. I proceed from there increasing the weight sufficiently to follow a 10, 8, 6, 4 rep pyramid. Love it… do it on most exercises.

Train, train, train. Experiment with the higher sets (4) and reps (12-15, try 20s) with attention on form, pace and effort and less on achieving heavier weight or more strength. Walking lunges with dumbbells in hand… cool and healthy shapers. Run sprints…

Eat right… there’s the hardest one for many. Most effective part, though.

Thanks… dd


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