French-Canadian competitor Regan Grimes prepares himself for the race upcoming IFBB Texas Pro Olympia qualifier with a detailed leg workout that uses a simple strategy. Here’s how to try it for yourself.
“Two sets for each exercise!” Grimes wrote as he shared his current muscle building method. Of course, with huge feet like his, we could easily be convinced to rely on his plan. However, while this exercise is easy to understand, it’s an epic challenge to master as Grimes cycles through seven serious movements.
Here’s the exact workout shared by the IFBB Pro and two-time Olympia finalist.
Regan Grimes’ 2 Leg Workout Set
Grimes even has a specific workout routine for after his session:
- Jewelry machine
- Abductor’s car
- Hamstring Curl
- Press the foot
- Pendulum
- Bulgarian Split Squat
- Raising the calf
Distribution of exercises
Grimes works on the washing machine to start, targeting the inner thigh as she drives her legs together. Next is the opposite movement of the abductor machine, where the knees push outward and lean on the outer hips. The strategy here is to add isolation movements at the beginning of the session, which means that the thighs and hips will tire the muscles before engaging them with complex exercises that require further use, as the session progresses, but make sure that they are fully engaged from the start.
Grimes brings the same grind to lying leg curls, another isolation exercise, before moving on to more complex movements, starting with leg presses. Of course, the leg press machine is a basic mass builder because it works the quads, glutes, and already warm thighs, glutes, and glutes. And those quads are in serious trouble because next up is the pendulum squat, a movement that allows for deeper immersionactivating the quadriceps through a full range of motion while relying on the hamstrings, hips and glutes for support
By this point, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Grimes had saved the easy exercises for last, but competitions have to be won, so he’s adding unilateral work and instead busting out some Bulgarian isolation ratios to correct any imbalances in those quads, hamstrings, hamstrings, hips and calves. Speaking of calves, they get a final blast with calf raises and highlight his lower body workout with an isolation exercise that builds deeper and wider calves.
The take home message? By skipping and repeating two sets to failure, you can focus on form while building the final lower body. Start with a weight you feel comfortable with, in the 8 to 12 rep range to hit hypertrophy and build up the intensity from there. “It’s a fitting day,” wrote one of Grimes’ shocked followers on Instagram. Just be careful when climbing the stairs for the next couple of days!
The IFBB Texas Pro will be held on August 14-15, 2026.
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