Massively High-Rep Training for Massively Built Muscles (AKA: An Homage to the Late Dr. Ken Leistner) Around five or six years ago, I was training with a good friend of mine. Even though he and I are good friends, we rarely trained together (and still don’t) due to the simple fact that he never liked to train legs or back muscles very hard, and, unfortunately, preferred a lot more training on the “showy” bodyparts of the chest and biceps. And, while I’m not against a nice “pump” workout for the pecs and the arms, I’m primarily going to train my legs and my back hard, even if it’s at the expense of other muscle groups. And even though my friend could out-bench press me by a couple hundred pounds, I could easily (at least at one time) out-squat or out-deadlift my friend by 300 pounds on each lift! That’s just sad in my book. Now, even though my friend knew that I l...
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