>do leg press for first time
>do light weight, slow reps and maintain constant tension on legs
>legs are absolutely burning with amazing mind muscle connection
Have I been memed into just doing squats? Squats have never hit my legs anywhere near this hard
Squats are good for other things, physically carrying the heavy weight hits your nervous system differently from leg press.
Personally I mix squats and leg press. If I hit both in the same leg workout pretty much nothing else I do matters, all the other exercises are just for accessories or vanity (calf raises).
Wait until you try Bulgarian split squats
Why does everyone suddenly have a boner for these?
>suddenly
You can thank /plg/ for most of the homosexualry that happens inside normal threads, including the split squats meme
what do you have against the split squat, bucko?
>use one leg
>somehow better than just increasing weight
??????
>T.squats 1 plate and a quarter.
Fricking moronic dyels know nothing about fitness and try to say what works and what doesn't.
unilateral work is a waste of time
Some roidtroony youtuber probably made a video about it recently
leg press scares me ever since I've seen that webm
theres more than one anon
just dont be a moron and lock your knees
Frick that shit I'm sticking to squats
Funny part is the same thing can happen to you during squats or deadlifts (although it is far less likely since you can drop the weight). The problem is straightening out completely and locking your legs at the top of the rep. Don't do that and you're golden.
>the same thing can happen to you during squats or deadlifts
Show me a single example of this ever happening during squats or deadlifts. The only thing close to it I've ever seen were morons lifting right up against a wall and passing out into the wall
Only one of those is an actual fracture, the rest are muscle/tendon tears
I guess you're still right though, I had never seen someone break a leg doing squats
Haven’t seen this one before
Goodness, ego lifting is not wise
thats not ego lifting dummy
What a ridiculous ego lift with terrible form and 1/8th range of motion with tiny preying mantis legs. Dont be a moron like this guy.
don't ego lift and don't lock out your knees at the top of the rep and you'll be fine
You'll be fine so long as your not a moron like this guy
and try load 35 pl8 for reps
incline leg press (picrel) or the leg press where you move your own sit?
I can't deadlift if I do leg press on the same day. I can do Squats and deadlifts on the same day just fine.
squats hurt me but I can still test a max every so often and improve as long as I'm leg pressing and deadlifting
Squats activate more muscles, it takes considerably more time until you get the same mind/muscle connection you get with leg presses.
I've come around on the squat, I alternate between them now.
>do isolated machine exercise
>isolated muscle starts burning
please tell me you're not this moronic
Leg press is a compound
is "legs" a single muscle?
No, it’s 2 moron
it's one syllable, bro
Yes. It's just really rubbery in the middle part.
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>Isolated
Do you know what that means?
not sure if b8 or summergay
Leg press is just a squat on machine. Lat pull down is not isolated lat work homosexual.
>Leg press is just a squat on machine
how do even remember to breathe?
Sure, let's not talk about the Hacksquat then. jfc
legpresses dont hit the glutes, atleast for me.
Widen stance and push with your heels. Fantastic glute sensation especially for a compound movement.
Do both dumbass. Easy Quad day would be 3 sets of squats 3 sets of leg press 3 sets of leg extension. Both are great but for different yet similar things, but if I could only choose one I would choose squats.
Yes. Squats are good, but leg press or hack squat work better for many lifters
>Legpress
Enjoy your premature male baldness
Black person, what?
Based. Don’t fall for the leg press meme, just trust me bro
Bodybuilders barely squat anymore, it's more of an athletics exercise
>Idiot discovers the effects of proper form the thread
if squats don't get your dick hard, but leg presses do, but you still want to do a squat like exercise? hold a low horse stance with your back nice and straight for two minutes. you'll really feel it in your quads
I'll do leg press but I will legit say a hail mary between each set.
Bros... she didn't even look like she was pushing much weight... is leg press really that dangerous?
Captcha: 2WAYD
That wasn't a leg press. Look carefully at how the machine still moves back after her legs are snapped. Dude who posted it is a DYEL.
>she's busy getting leg fricked
>guy grabs tit
Lmao well played
I hate this thread but I can't stop opening these webms. Are you trying to make me never work out again?
Some people are more genetically predisposed to hyperextension but just dont be stupid and you'll be ok (mostly)
bruh wtf I do 6 plates with proper form, depth and not locking out, how the frick is this guy getting crushed by 6 plates lmao.
>leg press
>legs get pressed by the weight
What a fricking moron. There is a safety in every leg press to prevent exactly that. Tiktok gays must die
why do people load these things up with every plate in the gym and then do tiny little eighth-reps? i even saw one of the staff guys at my gym doing this, wtf man
Leg press allows you to move the most amount of weight in the gym so the vainglorious try hards are instinctively drawn to it. Rack pulls are another one. ROM decreases = ego inflates. This is every commercial gym.
>I hate this thread but I can't stop opening these webms
same, bro. idk why I do it to myself
wtf is going on, how is she continuing it?
Genu recurvatum
goliath online
I just realized I have nostalgia for leg press snap webm's
how light is 'light weight'? What are you doing for your max versus what you are doing in order to achieve this?
I think I'm moronic bros. All the other guys at the gym leg press so much more than me,
>Front squat 3plate
>Deadlift 5plate
>Struggle to leg press 600
I barely ever leg press. I thought it was supposed to be easy?
There is a guy who can't squat what I can power clean who can leg press 700lbs.
Full ROM with froggy stance or GFTO
This board is full of moron pussy homosexuals considering no one recommended the obvious alternative to hit the quads for non-pussies: front squats.
I don't know why people dog on the leg press so much. It's great for extra volume when your back is absolutely toast.
>do leg press
>never feel activation in glutes
>read that you have to put your feet higher to get better glute activation
>do it
>slightly better but still little glute activation and ROM is garbage now
>FFW to next day
>minor pain around sacrum area for 2 days
Evidently I got memed
How does doing these with a resistance band around your thighs change the exercise?
forces you to use your glute medius more to keep your knees pushed out. at least that's what the bands do for hip thrusts. I assume it's the same
>can leg press 225 for ~ 10 reps with 8 rpe
>can’t squat 225 for a single rep and i feel like someone’s stabbing me in my abdomen
Is there any reason I shouldn’t just do leg presses? I get core from safer exercises that hit my core better anyway and I don’t have to worry about dropping weights. Plus leg press feels more quady than squats do
You don't have FUNCTIONAL STRENGTH anon, it's over.....
Who gives a shit about functional strength in the legs lmao the only reason to train legs is to not look like a cassowary
Enjoy never being able to DL more than your bodyweight
I can do 4pl8 DL as of last week. There’s just something about squats. And since I’m 70kg that’s more than 2,5 body weight
Jesus Christ are you one of Durin's Folk?
You earned a guffaw. I am indeed a 5’9 anklebiter
I leg press 200kg and squat 95kg x 10 and I'm a DYEL
Your legs might feel more worked out but you're not building strength.
You've literally highlighted the problem with leg presses. You can leg press 225 but you can't even squat 225, ergo leg press is fricking shit because it doesn't translate into anything. It's fine to use as a accessory exercise to squats, but clearly it doesn't do frick all for strength.
What are you going to do, walk around all day thinking you're a big man because you can leg press x amount of weight but as soon as anyone asks you to actually lift something in the real world you'll fold like a fricking piece of paper.
>but clearly it doesn't do frick all for strength.
Ridiculous. Let's assume for a moment that you can squat, for example, only 100lb. Then you train solely with leg press until you can eventually press 800lb. Do you think that your squat will still be limited to only 100lb?
Probably not because most teenage girls can squat more than 100lbs but I wouldn't be surprised if they couldnt even put up three plates for a single. Barbell squats are a much more technical movement and more associated with overall lower body power than leg press
I'm not disputing that squatting is more difficult and translates better to athletic abilities than the leg press. It's just the idea that leg press (or machines in general) do nothing for strength is a stupid meme that needs to die. You can still get super strong on manchines.
Not whom you responded to but yes because if you don't regularly squat you're missing out on core and back gainz to stabilize the weight on ur back
Wrong. It translates into me being bigger then you
You are an absolute fricking moron just like him.
If he actually squatted he would have much higher squat numbers because leg press are an assistance exercise but if you only do leg press no fricking shit your squat numbers will suck.
God I hate when people that don't know shit think they have the right to open their mouths.
Your core feels like that because is weak precisely because you don't squat.
If you avoid working on your core through compounds you will eventually snap your shit because your core is weak and you will probably blame the exercise that you were doing at the moment.
Bit what am I saying there is no way you are moronic and there is a connection between a weak core and core pain when you focus on a exercise that doesn't engage your core.
Enjoy your back pain.
Does this hit glutes?
Yes if your feet are wide enough apart
Wait until you try calf raises on leg press. Burns ur calves and they turn rock hard. Do this with squats and u gucci
Unless you're roiding, you never want to "destroy" or "hit really hard" a muscle
Your body can only repair so much at a time
That's why repeating 3 day splits work so much better for everyone
>Less volume each session
>More heavy volume overall
>Increased CNS taxation
>Increased test
>Increased gains
>Reduced body fat
Etc etc
Nobody wants huge legs anyway (although you will get some with proper squat volume), but you do need a big squat to make big gains
You sound like a low test homosexual
frick off queer no one asked for your shitty takes
Hijacking the leg thread for a dumb question
When I squat I feel the outer quads doing much more work than the inner quads, what do I change in my stance to use the inner quads more?
>*mogs the leg press machine*
looks like a huffy toddler taking a shit
>Struggling with 135
>leg presses 240kg for reps
>Can only do ATG squats with 70kg
>80kg and it's heels up in the air like a prostitute scouting the streets
>Can't go parallel at 135kg
I fricking hate squats
I pyramid my leg press.
1pl8 20
2 pl8 15
3pl8 10
4pl8 5
10
15
20
I walk out like a freshly fricked schoolgirl. Spaghetti legs. I feel as though this will help condition my shrimp legs for the real deal. I don't like squat because my legs are too weak for it. Just being honest. Ohp, bench and dead going up just fine.
Wait until you find out you’ve been memed into doing dealifts.
>torn meniscus a year and a half ago
>go to physical therapy
>work my way back to leg press, hack squat, leg extensions
>try BB squat
>immediate pain at 200lb
>quit squatting for months while still training legs
>try again because knee has been feeling good
>immediate pain again with a little weight on the bar
wtf do i do bros, PT doesnt help and I just wanna BB squat again
Started hacksquatting and don't feel the need to leg press anymore.
squats are fricking meme
>does nothing for your legs
>consumes shitload of energy
>ruins the rest of your workout
>the only people who do squats are powershitters and dyels