You have pretty thick quads, i want to try that rountine!!! I'm doing an Active rest right now(cutting the sets and weight downn) after a long season, but anyway, i as a rule do more high reps for leg extensions, moderate reps for squats and presses , and try to always get at least 2 to 4 sets of lunges in at the end, then hit hams and calves, Every 3 weeks i try quads, hams, 2 times , Mon and Fri
I take you lead with leg extensions??
In all honesty until the past 2 years I have never really went into the gym with the LIFT HUGE mentality. I mean I lifted and lifted heavy but nothing like I have over the past two years and I think the most improvement have came over the past two years. I am with Dante in that I focus on all of the heavy movers per say. I only do exercises that will allow me to move the biggest weights. For quads I only do squats, leg press, hack's. Hams - SLDL's, leg curls (lying and seated). For chest - flat, incline, dips (weighted obviously), decline. For bi's - standing curl, preacher curl, drag curl. Tri's - CG bench press, skull crushers, reverse CG bench presses. You get the point. In the last two years I have done MINIMAL work with anything other than a "heavy mover." No 1 arm curls, no 1 arm pushbacks, no leg extensions, no lunges, etc. The only time I will do those is when I want to push blood into the muscle group for a greater pump if I didn't achieve it the way I should had prior to my extreme stretching.
Before any quad work I'll do as many warmup sets as needed to ensure I won't get injured. I don't warmup with leg extensions or anything like that tho. I feel that right now I need to focus on gaining size and I will make adjustments to lagging bodyparts once I get that size but I am not even big enough now to say oh, I need to do some 1 arm kickbacks to bring out the lower portion of my horseshoe. The way I figure it, you can't shape a certain part of a muscle anyway. Meaning that you can't do decline to bring out your lower chest. You can only make your chest bigger and if your genetically shaped with a larger lower chest then god blessed you...if not then you can only make bigger what you have. So right now I just want to make everything I have as big as possible and I will do that by lifting the heaviest weights possible. If i need to go back and do some extra work on a body part once I get everything else where I want it I will. But I wont focus energy in the gym to do an exercise where I can only move 10lbs when I could hit the same muscle with more intensity, more weight, and potentianlly grow more from that exercise. That's my two cents about it anyway...I have yet to get hurt with this approach but I certainly have more aches and pains from deads and squats than I would from leg extensions and 1 arm rows....