“The Legs Feed the Wolf”
The most motivational day in an athlete’s weekly training routine is when he/she trains legs or “Leg Day”. Regardless of what your fitness level is or what regime you have decided to follow, leg day can leave you stuck in bed the next morning with a world of hurt upon the majority of your body. Moreover it is days and experiences like this that for one reason or another make us want to better ourselves to overcome those dreaded recovery days. As I mentioned training legs motivates an athlete, this is an area where you are constantly setting goals and continually raising the bar for improvement. As I am sure most will agree this is also an area that typically will take up the most time, effort and mental capacity to reach your goals. I love to start and finish the weeks training schedule with an extremely effective leg day. This gives me a great start to the week, which will lead to confidence in my following training sessions along with taking steps to reach my goals, and also ending the week this very same way allowing for peace of mind for a solid rest period.
[Mike Barbour is a Certified Personal Trainer and RIVALUS Athlete. He is also a contributing partner in Nova Scotia off-ice training development of minor hockey, Junior and Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) level players along with being a CIS University Hockey player at the University of Windsor, Ontario]
