Written by Dr George N. Touliatos, MD
A Day within the Lifetime of Kai
Half 3: Leg Day
The Kai Recordsdata
By Ron Harris
Sponsored by REDCON1
‘It is a sluggish, methodical, exact, considerate civilized exercise by a contemporary grasp of muscle constructing, not a crazed, animalistic iron orgy.’
Half 3 of Mike Pulcinella’s Day within the Lifetime of Kai Greene facilities on a leg exercise as nightfall takes maintain of New York Metropolis. Kai had requested Mike on the day’s onset if he needed to see something particular, however Pulcinella replied to please ignore him and do what he usually would on a leg day two months out from the Mr. Olympia. Mike prefaced what we might see as being “an extremely exact and scientific leg routine that can also be extremely tough, which I defy anybody to match rep for rep.”
Kai explains why he refuses to “ego elevate” for the sake of the video shoot as others typically do.
“There’s so much to be mentioned for seeing an individual work at one thing with pure honesty. When individuals see that, there’s one thing about it they will get behind and help. I really feel it’s necessary for me to say to the youthful aspiring stars on the market, get your type proper, learn to really feel. Get your thoughts proper. Your thoughts is driving this complete factor.”
Mike feedback on the ultimate train of the exercise, squats:
“By now, the athletes’ muscle mass have been so taxed that there can be no must load up the bar with photographically spectacular weights. To their already drained legs, even a couple of plates will really feel like a ton. That is the place the mythology of the glistening, screaming athlete within the shiny picture shoot actually crumbles and comes crashing down. It is a sluggish, methodical, exact, considerate civilized exercise by a contemporary grasp of muscle constructing, not a crazed, animalistic iron orgy.”
Kai provides his personal tackle what we’re witnessing:
“Slightly than attempt to impress you with the considered, wow, how a lot weight is he shifting, or how a lot cardio is he doing?, I’d fairly you stroll away pondering all these issues are constructed on primary fundamentals and no matter whether or not or not you will have entry presently to shiny lights, fancy automobiles, whether or not or not individuals wish to movie you as we speak, should you work arduous and use these fundamentals with the intent to humble your self earlier than the self-discipline, do it lengthy sufficient and you’ll find your self in the identical place.”
He additionally felt the necessity to tackle the subject of his terribly gifted genetics as being the first motive for his success in bodybuilding.
“I by no means discuss genetics. Nothing on this day is constructed across the marvel of Kai Greene’s genetics. It’s constructed across the specifics of doing sure issues daily. Even when it will get tough, should you consider you may be profitable and you’ve got a function for getting these items performed, then success can comply with.”
Mike notes that Kai typically appears to be addressing not solely aspiring bodybuilding champions, but in addition a youthful model of himself to supply extra life like expectations of what’s really concerned. Right here’s Kai:
“If I did a video saying hey, I simply gained the Arnold Traditional and I purchased these items and I’m doing these great issues now, it could not enable individuals to see the reality. Whereas working towards creating that risk, the home wasn’t fairly. The automotive wasn’t even there. If you happen to’re somebody trying round and the image isn’t what you need in your life, I’ve spent 20 years in bodybuilding studying that you may change that by your actions. You possibly can create your individual actuality. If you happen to take something away from this video, I’d hope it could be that. It doesn’t matter the place you’re at whenever you dare to dream, and it doesn’t matter the place you’ve been. Simply maintain dreaming and maintain working.”
The Exercise
‘Get your type proper, learn to really feel. Get your thoughts proper. Your thoughts is driving this complete factor.’
Abs and stretching – quarter-hour
Superset 4 units of 20 reps every
Glute Kickbacks and Hip Adduction
Superset 4 units of 20 reps every
Jefferson Squats and Hip Abduction
Standing Leg Curl – 3 units of 20 reps, every leg
Superset Calf Elevate Machine and Calf Elevate on Leg Press
3 units of 20 reps (third set of every is a drop set)
Straight-Leg Deadlifts – 4 units, growing weight
Mendacity Leg Curls – 3 units of 20 reps
Leg Extensions – 6 units of 20 reps
Squats – 5 units of 20, growing weight
KAI ON READING THE MAGAZINES AS A KID
“I grew up as a child trying up on the bodybuilding stars, not understanding the data was going by a filter. After I noticed these photographs, I believed it was my alternative to look over the shoulder of a star within the trenches and see what they do. I didn’t understand it had gone by a filter, and that filter had been touched by the expectation or the extremely idealized imaginative and prescient of what an editor thought can be necessary. I didn’t understand how that influenced what I noticed. The good photographs of their thoughts had been represented by hoisting these big poundages, trying extremely veiny with exaggerated muscularity and nice situation. The message I acquired was that they regarded like this all yr spherical, and that is how they appear within the trenches after they go to their fitness center of their neighborhood. I didn’t understand it was him in a location with nice lighting, that I used to be seeing one thing filtered for our consumption. I believed daily is a sunny day, and daily these athletes are in form trying like he simply walked out of a FLEX journal and lifting these heaviest of weights. I believed to myself, if I’m to aspire to look and be like that, then daily needed to be like that; not realizing that daily wasn’t even like that for these guys. It was merely not life like even for these stars.”
Supply: Mike Pulcinella YouTube Channel
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“Kai Greene: A Day within the Life, elements 1-3.”
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