Arnold Schwarzenegger Insane Leg Workout Routine

Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most successful bodybuilders in history.

As a bodybuilder, Arnold won the Mr. Olympia competition seven times in his competitive career.

Arnold Schwarzenegger also won the Mr. Universe competition five times in his career.

After releasing the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron which Arnold was the main star in, he became more famous.

Arnold helped bodybuilding become popular, and as we all know, after his bodybuilding career, he became a movie star and a politician.

Back in the old-school days of bodybuilding, the guys would train for hours on end.

Arnold has revealed that sometimes he worked out twice a day for a total of 4-5 hours of training a day.

Arnold’s remarkable shape earned him the title Mr. Olympia seven times; Arnold wasn’t overly big; he had an aesthetically pleasing physique with massive arms and a chest.

Even though Arnold didn’t have monster legs, they still worked well with his physique because it was in proportion with the rest of the body.

Back in the old school days, bodybuilding was about aesthetics, shape, and symmetry, while today, bodybuilders try to put on as much size as possible and become mass monsters.

Arnold trained legs hard, sometimes three days a week; Arnold did so much volume when training it took him hours to finish his workouts, especially when he did two workouts in one day.

In the Bodybuilding, Encyclopedia Arnold revealed how he trained and showed how much volume he did in his workouts.

One of his leg workout routines is in the book; however, Arnold didn’t always use the same routine as he liked shocking the body.

Here’s how Arnold explains the shocking principle:

One of the main things of course in order to create size and to create muscle growth. Sometimes the body will hit the wall and what that basically means is that the body is saying, ‘Look, I know all your tricks. I know you’re gonna start first with benchpress and then I know you’re gonna walk over to the chin-up bar and do chin-ups then you are coming back to the bench press, then you go to the chin-up bar and come back to bench press. I know that routine. I know exactly everything you do and I am prepared for that.’ So you have to go and use the shocking principle.

The body and if the chest knows that I’m going to start with 135 and then go to 225 and then do 275. I am going to start now with 315 and I’m going to do 20 reps with 315 and then I am going to go and have the guys pull off plates then I have 225 left and then I am going to do another 10 reps and then I am going to have them take off another 45-lbs pound plate and I have 135 left and then I am going to go and do another 10 reps or maby if I can do 15 or 20 reps and let’s see if the pectoral muscle is used to that and all of the sudden you will find that your pectoral muscle is shaking after that, and it doesn’t know what to do because it’s cramping and being tortured and it is in pain because you have now shocked the muscle

Arnold Schwarzenegger Leg Workout Routine

Arnold used a lot of volumes when training; he also trained abs every day. Here’s one leg workout routine that Arnold used as a competitive bodybuilder.

• Squats: 5 sets of 20 rep warm-up; 10, 8, 6, 4 reps
• Front Squats: 4 sets of 10, 8, 8, 6 rep
• Hack Squats: 3 sets of 10 reps each
• Leg Curls: 4 sets of 20, 10, 8, 6 reps
• Standing Leg Curls: 4 sets of 10 reps each
• Straight-Leg Deadlifts: 3 sets of 10 reps each
• Donkey Calf Raises: 4 sets of 10 reps each
• Standing Calf Raises: 4 sets of 15, 10, 8, 8 reps