In honour of his iconic 2009 ‘quad stomp’ pose, Jay Cutler<\/a> has revisited the leg workout that helped him reclaim the Mr Olympia title alongside legendary coach Hany Rambod.<\/p>\n After winning in 2006 and 2007 before losing the title to Dexter Jackson a year later, Cutler returned with a vengeance \u2013 and a new coach \u2013 to dominate the stage once again. Under Rambod’s guidance and a renewed focus on leg training, Cutler built quads<\/a> so deeply striated that individual muscle fibres were visible when he slammed his foot onto the stage.<\/p>\n ‘When we talk about the ’09 comeback, I had a heavy discrepancy in my leg size,’ Cutler says in a recent YouTube video<\/a>. ‘I always had this difference, and we started manipulating leg training to try to close that gap. Obviously, I always had great legs<\/a>, but besides getting more defined through the StepMill and stricter dieting, it was great to have that size back in the legs evenly.’<\/p>\n Even now, 17 years on, Cutler still has incredibly impressive legs. While they’re no longer stage-ready, his trademark quad stomp would still overshadow almost anyone else’s. The 54-year-old credits the hack squat for building the dramatic outer sweep that came to define his physique, alongside a higher-volume approach using relatively moderate loads.<\/p>\n ‘Jay was already doing a bunch of high-volume training, but what we did was really focus on the areas he’d identified, because his legs were already so good,’ Rambod says. ‘The imbalance that he mentioned earlier was what we really wanted to improve. And if you notice, he doesn’t use a crazy amount of weight. It’s all mind-muscle connection.’<\/p>\n It’s still a brutally demanding workout, though. Cutler couldn’t have built those legendary 2009 tree trunks any other way.<\/p>\n Ryan is a Senior Writer at Men\u2019s Health<\/em> UK<\/em> with a passion for storytelling, health and fitness. Having graduated from Cardiff University in 2020, and later obtaining his NCTJ qualification, Ryan started his career as a Trainee News Writer for sports titles Golf Monthly<\/em>, Cycling Weekly<\/em> and Rugby World<\/em> before progressing to Staff Writer and subsequently Senior Writer with football magazine FourFourTwo<\/em>.<\/p>\n During his two-and-a-half years there he wrote news stories for the website and features for the magazine, while he also interviewed names such as Les Ferdinand, Ally McCoist, Jamie Redknapp and Antonio Rudiger, among many others. His standout memory, though, came when getting the opportunity to speak to then-Plymouth Argyle manager Steven Schumacher as the club won League One in 2023.<\/p>\n Having grown up a keen footballer and playing for his boyhood side until the age of 16, Ryan got the opportunity to represent Northern Ireland national futsal team eight times, scoring three goals against England, Scotland and Gibraltar. Now past his peak, Ryan prefers to mix weightlifting with running \u2013 he achieved a marathon PB of 3:31:49 at Manchester in April 2025, but credits the heat for failing to get below the coveted 3:30 mark\u2026<\/p>\n You can follow Ryan on Instagram <\/a> or on X <\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\nJay Cutler’s Leg Workout<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
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Leg Extension<\/h2>\n
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Hack Squat<\/h2>\n
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Belt Squat<\/h2>\n
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Hip Abduction<\/h2>\n
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