Leg day recovery

[Dan T]

After running PPL 2. 0 and Pec Augmentation, my leg day sessions have gotten to the point where I’m not able to fully recover before leg day rolls again. I’m continuing with pec augmentation and doing 3 days on 1 day off, 2 days on 1 day. I’m able to push thru the leg sessions. But am I heading down a road where I’m hindering progress by not modifying to allow more time to recover. The push, pull and chest days I’m able to recover well from.

What would you recommend…should I skip legs when I’m still feeling beat up? Swap out the pec augmentation leg day for the one in the recovery program?

[BryceBahm]

[Dan T]

BryceBahm wrote:

Thanks Bryce, hit legs yesterday and reduced the number of working sets to one for heel elevated squats and hack. Still was an intense workout, but dont feel as beat up today.

[Dan T]

Just a follow-up question. So if this turns out to be solution for proper recovery for my leg days, should this be a short term thing and after a few weeks I should try to add some of the back off sets back into the session?

[Xavier Szyszko]

Dan T wrote:

Just a follow-up question. So if this turns out to be solution for proper recovery for my leg days, should this be a short term thing and after a few weeks I should try to add some of the back off sets back into the session?

I’d say stick with less if you still grow and progress. My leg days recover incredibly slow and cannot handle much volume; they’re literally 5 exercises and 2 sets each. Anything more (even 1-2 sets) leaves me sore for 5-7 days. Still growing like crazy and consistently progressively overloading. Don’t feel like you need much volume at all if intensity is maximal

[Dan T]

Xavier Szyszko wrote:

I’d say stick with less if you still grow and progress. My leg days recover incredibly slow and cannot handle much volume; they’re literally 5 exercises and 2 sets each. Anything more (even 1-2 sets) leaves me sore for 5-7 days. Still growing like crazy and consistently progressively overloading. Don’t feel like you need much volume at all if intensity is maximal

Thanks for your input. I kinda figured that might be approach to take too if I’m still seeing signs of progress.

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