4x Mr. Olympia Jay Cutler’s Guide to His Top Leg Exercises

The remarkable victory on the Olympia stage four times has made Jay Cutler a fitness legend. He is looked up to by many of his fans for his effective training advice. With a proper workout routine, he still maintains his shredded physique even after so many years of retirement. He seems to have carried the same amount of beef in his body that he used to have during his bodybuilding career. 

Be it biceps or abs or legs, Jay Cutler just has everything so perfect that no one can see a big difference between his body during and after Olympia. The credit for the ripped body goes to his effective training methods. Recently, the legend took the fans on a tour of his top six insane leg exercises which have played a vital role in making him who he is today. 

Jay Cutler’s six amazing leg exercises 

In a recent video uploaded on his JayCutlerTV YouTube channel, Jay Cutler talked about his top six essential leg exercises one by one. The first key to his captivating legs is the ‘seated leg curl’, which is helpful in building a good amount of muscle mass. Sharing his experience, Cutler said, “This has always been my number one exercise. In fact when I lived in Massachusetts, okay, I lived in Worcester and I end up choosing to go to a gym in Framingham Mass, which is probably 25 minutes away when I had one, like, right next door to my house, just to use a seated leg curl.”

Seated leg curl is often performed with a leg curl machine. On the machine, one has to sit in an upright position while contracting ab muscles. After that, one is needed to lift their legs until the knees are straight. Now, coming back down to the actual position after a few minutes. Cutler reveals that seated leg curl is effective for targeting the hamstring and he often does three reps of the exercise. He performed the exercise setting the weight up to 130lbs.

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Talking about the second leg exercise, Cutler practices stiff leg deadlifts. The former Mr. Olympia used to have the barbell while doing this exercise. He never used a dumbbell with it until there came a golden time for him when he won the Olympia competition. Then he started training his hamstrings more intensely and started using dumbbells for stiff leg deadlifts. While people normally do it straight, Jay Cutler has a little bend. He said,

Cutler’s third leg exercise is the lying leg curl. The bodybuilding legend revealed that this movement is effective in pumping up the hamstring. After this, he moved to intra-workout nutrition. It is basically his carbohydrate drink that he consumes during his leg training. Then Cutler does the leg extension exercise to target the outer head of the quad. His last exercise is the Roger Squat. It is a variation of the ‘best exercise’ he has ever done.

This isn’t the first time Cutler has let in on his fitness regime. Earlier, he revealed his workout practices as he believes he did not train for failure.

Jay Cutler did not train for failure 

During a recent workout session with Urs Kalecinski, Cutler revealed that he had refused to do the repetitions of intense exercises. He said, “I didn’t train for failure… My reps weren’t pushed to that, so it was, my recovery was a little faster.” 

Cutler revealed that he took short periods of rest between exercises. He explained that training too hard would reduce the ability to repair one’s own body. The bodybuilding legend also said that food and rest were significant aspects as well. He added, “I would sleep 8-10 hours a night.” Did you enjoy watching Cutler’s six leg exercises and will you ever consider practicing them in the future?

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