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It wasn’t that long ago that I mentioned switching to a new routine. This led to lunges killing me.
Well, I’ve been away from home for the past couple weeks, and took a break from my routine for that time. So, the past 3 days have been… a challenge, I’ll say. And it made me realize something.
I hate leg day.
So, today (I’m writing this on Wednesday – which is Leg Day #2 of the week under the routine I’ve been using), I made a decision. I’m not doing it. Now, that doesn’t mean I’m not going to do any more leg exercises – that would be a bit unbalanced. Rather, it means that I’m not doing leg day.
See, I found this routine. It is slanted toward upper-body exercises – which I prefer anyway. Its goal is more aesthetic – which I prefer, too. The split is a bit strange, and it brings back some exercises I’ve not done in basically FOREVER (Rear delt flyes? Been almost a year since I’ve done one of those, I think.).
An important lesson here – which is a continuing theme for me in many ways – if you hate a program, there’s nothing making you do it. You can always choose to do something else.
As I get older (and busier…)- and feel more pressed for time – the more I find myself willing to just stop doing things that I don’t like. In short – I have no moral obligation to have a “leg day”. It doesn’t serve any particular purpose in allowing me to reach my goals. It’s not something that the world needs from me. So, I may as well stop.
But let day keeps those legs strong and knees in some shape. You don’t have to do it every week. Just once in awhile.
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Oh, the new routine doesn’t give up on legs entirely. It just doesn’t have a “leg day” where legs are all you do. I’ll still be squatting and calf-raising a couple times a week. When I did the math, the old routine had 35 sets of leg exercises a week, this routine cuts that to 25 or so on average.