Leg Training – Myths, Facts, and the East/West Divide
by Christian Duque
Talk is cheap. Shut up and train. That’s what most hardcore bodybuilders would tell you. Though they’re a dying breed, there’s still a sizable group of men and women who don’t like gyms pumping out music. You want to bring your own tunes, played at a reasonable volume, with your own headsets – fine. But the hardcore crowd doesn’t wanna get anabolic to Lady Gaga singing about some dude named Alejandro. This small niche of the bodybuilding crowd, believes in hard training, clean eating, and (at times) some pretty far out supplement regimens. While they frown on those who talk a big game, they’re somewhat guilty themselves. You see, my friends, there’s an ages old divide, and we’re (hopefully) going to address it in this article. There’s a school of thought, a prevailing theory that people on the East Coast train much harder, particularly in the wheels department, than people on the West Coast. The further up (north) you go on that East Coast, the more hardcore the training – per the legend. Florida is an exception, largely because of the snowbirds who have settled there. When the Europeans came to the New World, they brought gunpowder, Christianity, and a lot of diseases. The snowbirds brought parallel parking and insane leg training to Florida, which is better.
