Another 15 Minute Leg Session

04/18/2026 Workout of the Day. Leg Day, bros

Took a break from work and packing to hit this 15 minute leg session.

2 sets of 3 different exercises. Each set taken pretty close to failure. Nasty pump acquired (one of the benefits of lifting for many years is you get wayyyyy more stimulus and pump from wayyyyy less volume than during the early years), quads, posterior chain, and calves all sufficiently fatigued, but not slaughtered (I got stuff to do, after all).

I don't plan to continue training with 15 minute sessions long term. I prefer the 25-30 minute sessions (generally that means an extra 3 total sets across the session. So if doing 3 exercises, that'd be 3 sets per exercise instead of 2 sets per exercise). But right now, with my last week of full time in-person training at my current location/city upcoming, while building up my online training business after those full time working hours, and packing up, cleaning up, closing on buying and selling houses in 2 different sides of the country, and preparing to make the 5 day drive across country in just 11 days from now…these 15 minute sessions are what's currently optimal and I'm seriously enjoying how effective they've been despite the lack of time they've taken.

Once I get settled in the new place, I'll keep a similar workout structure (as I normally do) but add a little more volume and get back to my regular 30ish minute sessions.

Here's how tonight's training went down:

Ex 1: standard split squat-8/8, 6/6

Ex 2: single leg (kettlebell on hip) hip thrust-13/13, 12/12

Ex 3: offset kettlebell calf raise-12/12, 10/10

Total time = 15 minutes

I've really been preferring Bulgarian split squats, box step ups, and reverse lunges, or even single leg box squats, as my “squat” pattern lately over standard split squats, but decided to switch it up today.