Is Your Leg Strength Up to Snuff?
by Ben Bruno -

Can you do 220-pound Bulgarian split squats for 6 reps? If not, delete the words "Strong Dude" from your business card.

Livespill Chaos

darkmatter: Like R Fischer, I am also puzzled by the quoted reps/sets. 4 sets of 5 reps with 90% of 1RM for the squat and DL sound insane.

darkmatter: @HT: haha, true. Btw, I agree with your point about the forums being more efficient than the livespill. Guess we'll wait to see what the Biotest crew have planned for this area :)

iDrDan: Thanks for writing a very good article! Being tall shouldn't be as much of a criteria as having limbs that are out-of-proportionally long for the persons height. While I'm not tall (5'9") I have all the other characteristics (long limbs, narrow shoulders, fast metabolism, etc) so I'm definitely an ectomorph and have found some success with lower volume / higher intensity training (Max-OT). I'm also a stimulus addict so it's hard for me to stay with the "lower volume" approach to training.

iDrDan: There is one ectomorph out there that naturally dominates the bench press...Dwight Howard. I don't know how this is possible, but seeing is believing...

dave-g: CS - cool...thank you for the response. As someone who chases around bad guys for a living I have some serious misgivings about Facebook and so on, so I won't be going that route but I will be looking forward to whatever else you folks have in store.

Chris Shugart: BTW, check out our upgraded Facebook and Twitter pages. Fun stuff there, and more in store.

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Ben Bruno graduated Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University. He currently trains athletes at Mike Boyle Strength and Condition in North Andover, Massachusetts and publishes a blog at www.benbruno.com.