Hungarian foot routine

Benoit Brodeur has been president of the Quebec Bodybuilding Association for almost 20 years. Muscles - closer to bodybuilding - is his passion.

He has travelled the world, from Tahiti to California, to learn and further develop the art of body building. He is personally acquainted with legends of the old era such as Vince Gironda, Mike Mentzer, Tom Platz and others.

Lately he has been in contact with former top pros such as Gunther and Ronnie. He invites them to guest pose at events where he is the promoter.

It probably occurs to you that this man must have seen a lot in the bodybuilding world and nothing can faze him!

One day he called me and instead of the usual: " I just saw the hugest pair of legs since I've been training alongside Tom Platz!"

Even now, when professional bodybuilders have achieved truly dramatic proportions in their lower legs, Platz's legs are considered the best ever in bodybuilding history. So if Benoit got that excited when he saw that person's legs, you can be sure he saw something really special!

"And the guy isn't even a bodybuilder," he added, " He's an Olympic wrestler from Hungary who is visiting friends in Montreal." Bendit and the Hungarian giant reportedly got to talking afterwards, and the Hungarian started complaining that he had to stop strengthening his legs because his new program had impressed him so much that he had to move up two weight classes!

Benoit measured the guy's thighs about in the middle... and measured 34 inches! That's almost a yard! To give you a bit of an idea, 28 inches in thigh circumference, moreover when they are nicely chiseled, can already be considered a decent result; 34 inches is already something like having 24 inches across the arms - something that is almost out of the realm of dreams. But this guy was really that big.

It's clear that Benoit immediately put a lot of effort into figuring out what that effective program was. It wasn't some secret method from Eastern Europe. In fact, it's so simple you refuse to believe it:

1 set of squats

2 sets of lunges

3 sets of stumbling

That's it!

It's clear at first glance that the drastic nature of the workout is not in the number of sets or the variety of exercises, but in the way the exercises are performed.

Exercise: 1) Back squat in full range of motion: the first exercise chosen is the king of exercises - the squat. Before a sharp set of squats, our Hungarian friend performed 2 warm-up sets with 135 lbs. Just for the record, with this weight he also did a working series! After he felt he was sufficiently warmed up ( 2 sets of 6-8 slow reps ), the wrestler began to pave his way to hell.

One more little digression. When Benoit met the wrestler, he had been using this program for 8 weeks. And when I say road to hell, I mean it - his streak in week 8 was 8 minutes - 8 minutes of continuous squatting! The wrestler didn't start his journey on those 8 minutes right from the start. He started the program at a time of 2 minutes and each subsequent workout added a little on top of that.

Week 1
Workout 1: (Monday) 1 x 2 minutes
Workout 2: (Thursday) 1 x 2:20 minutes

Week 2
Workout 1: (Monday) 1 x 2:40 minutes
Training 2: (Thursday) 1 x 3 minutes

Week 3
Training 1: (Monday) 1 x 3:20 minutes
Training 2: (Thursday) 1 x 3:40 minutes

Week 4
Training 1: (Monday) 1 x 4 minutes
Training 2: (Thursday) 1 x 4:20 minutes

Week 5
Training 1: (Monday) 1 x 4:40 minutes
Training 2: (Thursday) 1 x 5 minutes

Week 6
Training 1: (Monday) 1 x 5:30 minutes
Training 2: (Thursday) 1 x 6 minutes

Week 7
Training 1: (Monday) 1 x 6:30 minutes
Training 2: (Thursday) 1 x 7 minutes

Week 8
Training 1: (Monday) 1 x 7:30 minutes
Training 2: (Thursday) 1 x 8 minutes

Worked with a 135lb barbell the entire time. The weight represented about 30% of his max for the back squat. Reps were clean and controlled, but performed explosively. As explosively as his level of exhaustion allowed.

Exercise 2) Pre-kicking: Honestly , after squatting ( especially after a set lasting more than 3 minutes ) I wouldn't even think of sitting on that machine! He did 2 sets of 30 reps, 10 reps with his feet turned in, 10 reps straight and 10 reps with his feet turned out. Each rep was done with the peak contraction ( squeeze! ) held for 1 second.

2 sets x 30 reps

Exercise 3) Stumbling while lying down: performed 3 sets in full range of motion. He chose a weight with which he was able to do 6-8 reps. He then rested for 10-12 seconds and continued on to failure. Just lying down on the bench standing despite a pumped quadriceps effort.

3 x 6-8 reps ( rest 10-12 seconds and continue to failure )

That's it! In week 8 the workout lasted about 20 minutes. Everything was included in those 20 minutes - the workout itself, moving between stations and resting between sets!

Conclusion

This program seems simple ( and it really is ), but if you give it everything you have, it will be one of the hardest routines of your life. The first 2-3 workouts are a little lighter, this is to get you used to the type of effort in the sets and get you used to this kind of load. However, when you reach a set of squats lasting 3 minutes, you will feel like you've been run over by a truck.

Only a few people are this hard and reach the 8 minute plan, it takes a really special kind of mindset to do it. But those who persevere will achieve the kind of lower limb development that would take years.

[Note: I'm sorry we don't have pictures of that Hungarian monster. But I was so intrigued by this article that I had to post it].

Source: translated from T-nation.com, Author of article: Ch.Thibaudeau