Long before he governed the Golden State abd out muscled bad guys on the silver screen, even before he won a then-record seven Mr. Olympia titles, Arnold Schwarzenegger was a promising young bodybuilder who had just one glaring weakness: His Legs. at 6'2", Arnold knew first hand the difficulty tall bodybuilders face in bringing up thier lower bodies. rather than accepting this shortcomming, Arnold endured the most gruelling, even sickening workouts up to three times a week to build massive tree-trunk thighs worthy of someone nicknamed The Oak.
While Arnold did conventional exersizes, his training strategy was anything but conventional. He approached leg days with an extraordinary tollerance for pain and dedication to push his body past its physical limits. while anyone can repeat the six exersizes that make up his leg routine, few can duplicate his nut busting intensity.
Turn Up The Volume
Enduriance, in addition to sheer size makes the legs a diffucult bodypart to train. anyone whos serious about bodybuilding knows this. "it isent enough to just subject the legs to heavy overload," Arnold said. "you have to use heavy weights and sufficient volume to stress the fibres involved and exuaghst the endurance capacity of the muscles."
Arnold's early training wasent sufficiently high in volume. "for many years i did only five sets of squats when i really should have been doing eight and i did not put enough weight on the leg press machine," he said. "once i realised my mistakes and corrected them, my thighs began tto grow thick and massive." At his peak, Arnold did at least 20 working sets for legs and took each set except warm ups to total failure. this high volume approach heled him to put on the size and build the strength that turned around a weak body part. (his best was a 400 pound squat for eight reps)
Mind Over Muscle
muscle fatigue inevitably sets in when you do several sets to failure, but Arnold used his mind to fight it. "I accepted the fact that leg workouts simply have to be brutal to be effective," he said. "normal workouts are hard enough, but if your thighs happen to be a weak point in your physique, you have to be prepared to push yourself even more. this involves a mental effort almost as much as a physical one... this means forcing yourself to break down any inhibition or barrier"
Take It To The Gym
dont train legs without a partner. "A good training partner pushes you to handle more poundage and gives you incentive to grind out even more reps per set," Arnold wrote in his early biography. "workouts are more fun with a partner as well as more competitive... you challenge each other." when you've forced out all the reps you can for squats, have your partner spot you for one or two more to push your body to its absolute limit.
Shock It To Me
Arnold found that traditional training techniques wernt enough to bring up his legs. at various times - especially before a competition - he used partial reps, drop sets, super sets, and pre-exaughsting techniques ti make his thighs work overtime and bring out thier muscular detail.
ARNOLDS PRE-CONTEST LEG ROUTINE:
Leg Extension: 5 sets- 12 reps a set
supersetted with
Squat: 5 sets- 15, 10, 10, 8, 6
Leg Press: 5 sets- 15, 10, 10, 8, 6
suppersetted with
Lying Leg Curl: 5 sets- 12 reps a set
Hack Squat: 5 sets- 12 reps a set
suppersetted with
Lying Leg Curl: 5 sets- all drop sets
Stiff Legged Deadlift: 3 sets- 6 reps a set | 
lol
specially for tall guys like you
I copied the post and am going to use that routine..thanks for posting it
oh and thanks for the invite to skurdk but 
