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Leg Day -Bro-Science- (SQUATS BOOST TESTOSTERONE)

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Leg day has the reputation of being the most anabolic of any day in the workout schedule. In this video, we-re going to dive deep into the -bro-science- to see if this long held belief has any truth to it as it relates to raising your testosterone and turning you into an all out man! To start you have to understand the science behind the statement. Is leg day the most anabolic of all training days and is skipping leg day a mortal sin? The answer is strongly supported. First of all, you need to know that resistance training is capable of increasing your testosterone during your workout. Second, if the training is intense the testosterone output is higher than if it is of a lower intensity. Thirdly, the more of a metabolic demand your workout places on your system (ie. more lactic acid is produced at the same high intensity) then your increase in testosterone will be highest. Finally, the more muscles the lifts you perform call on, the more intense and hormone stimulating they are. All signs point to leg day being the holy grail of training. Why? Because when you consider the squat versus the bicep preacher curl for example, you can see the obvious tipping of the balance in favor of the squat. It is obvious to anyone who has ever touched a weight that the squat is a much more demanding (and unpleasant) exercise than the preacher curl. This is because it demands that half of your body be called into action to complete it. The curl on the other hand is a safe, metabolically limited exercise that can be performed with much less effort and focus than the squat. Approach a curl with low intensity or focus and you have a bad set. Do the same with a set of squats and you can get seriously injured. The risk is greater but the reward is much much higher. That said, there is much more to the exercise that makes it so productive. Besides the very fact that the exercise alone is more intense it offers the additional benefit of allowing you to load up with heavy weights that instantly makes it more demanding and capable of sparking testosterone release. Throw in the element of training with a challenging weight but doing rest pause reps and getting into the higher rep ranges that make you burn like crazy and feel like you want to throw up, and you-ve just tapped out the metabolic mastery that the squat provides for. The beauty of leg day is that no matter what exercise you do, you are always training much larger muscle groups than say the biceps, triceps or even the chest for that matter. These will always be more demanding exercises and therefore will have a greater impact on the testosterone that your body can produce during a leg workout versus any other workout. The key benefit here is that you must remember that the increased testosterone is not only impacting the muscles that were being trained that day, in this case the legs. No, the increased hormone production is also going to have a major impact on the other muscles that you may have trained yesterday or the day before that are still very much in recovery mode. The exposure to the increased testosterone does great things towards improving the protein synthesis and growth in those areas as well. So all the way around, leg day is an anabolic winner. For a complete step by step program that never skips leg day and actually gets you leg gains much faster by training your lower body much more athletically, head to and get the ATHLEAN-X Training System. See how the right exercises done more explosively and in the right sequence can turn on the testosterone and get you growing like never before
Date: 2022-04-22

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Comments and reviews: 10

AnonymousCeleb
Barbell hip thrusts, squats, Romanian deadlifts, calf raises seated and standing, I got a metal prosthesis in my left proximal tibia, you ain't got no excuse most of our species, seriously, use what you got sparingly and effectively, you never know when you'll get bone cancer, or a leg injury, and all of a sudden your legs aren't so useless after all are they? DO YOUR DAMN LEG DAY
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Michael
Absolutely love doing squats. it-s the one exercise that I can max out on the weight. 3 sets with 500. 600. 10x each. final set with 750 8 x. I can actually feel the blood flowing through my body afterwards. I highly recommend doing an xtra large protein powder drink with almond milk and a couple of scoops of vanilla ice cream. trust me it makes a big difference with your workouts.
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2Hot2Handle
You should be able to tell if your testosterone spikes because you get horny. All the time. And your metabolism is high when you're just sitting there and heat radiates from the inside. It's crazy.
1. 5 to 2 hours of weights. With 10 minute warm-up: 5 minute jogging followed by 5 minutes of sprinting (-1 mile per day.
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Steven
Maybe it's because I'm taller than Jeff, I dunno but I've been bodybuilding for 6 years and tried this workout. I could not even attempt set 6 lifting my 10 rep max to near failure. I got a great workout but man, 10 sets? Do I need to lift lighter? My legs feel like noodles and my right knee has got some not-quite-right pain.
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Gilang
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Choco
I have used testboost. best for about 2 months now. Excellent supplement with premium quality ingredients. I had a talk with a representative who told me about multiple purity tests they do on every batch. They deal exclusively with mens' health only.
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Broonzied
I have found nothing in the gym as painful yet satisfying as a tough squat session. Follow up with a ribeye steak dinner and some marital intimacy. You will be tired after hard squats, but the T boost means you will not be too tired to tango.
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paan
i dont like legday, but i felt like legday make you sweat the most. im still doing it regardless. but i noticed that after one 1 hour workout i felt like i have no energy to continue n feels like i want to puke. is it normal?
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Emp6ft10in
When I go heavy and intense enough on squats I swear every single muscle in my body is getting worked in some way or another. I remember one time doing a new 10RM and the next day even my biceps and triceps were sore.
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Aaron
I squatted the other day and did some other leg workouts. A day later I got a wet dream. I'm 22. My days for that should be over but my testosterone was so high from working out that it happened.
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