I have skinny legs. I weigh 83kg and I want to weigh at least 85kg with less skinny legs. Adding weight to my legs should count more and come easier than upper body mass gains since the muscle groups are bigger. I’ve been training 6×6 with a finisher set of 20 reps for the last 3 weeks but I feel like my legs need more volume so for the next 3 weeks its GVT. German Volume Training and 10×10 systems have been used by lots of coaches, probably because it works. Charles Poliquin is a big advocate of it and seeing as though I’m spending $5000 plus to educate myself in his system I might as well have some first hand knowledge of how his programs feel and work. I tried last year but was destroyed by a fraction of the weight I was meant to be using. This year post-Biosignature my recovery capacity and strength levels are way up. Time to take on the GVT monster in the closet!
I went into this session with some leg soreness lingering from saturday mornings 8×20 with 60kg. The challenge was 10×10 back squats with 80 kg, just under body weight. Technically I should have done it with 85 kg based on 60% of my 1RM on squat. My pins (skinny legs) and everything else were destroyed for a week after I tried this routine last year with 60 kg without paying any attention to tempo so 80 kg with some control on the eccentrics was a good improvement. Backing it up with 85kg on thursday is going to be tough!
At 4 sets I didn’t know if I would make it. The first 5 reps of each set were easy but the lactate made the last 5 hard more so than the weight. My legs were pumped and starting to get sore by the time the last set rolled around. I took 2g of vitamin C, 20g of glutamine, 30g of BCAA’s, Inflame PX, 30g of quadricarb and some magnesium post session!
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