First time at 1000lbs-leg press!!!

[mikelong23]

Is that all, I could do that in my sleep, good job its about time you caught up with the rest of us.

 

[thegame65_ve]

I hear ya Eviscerator. There is no more space for plates on the leg press at my gym. 12 reps @1280 is a bitch!! Keep up the good work on the presses airtyme.

 

[Yll]

I weigh 180 lbs. and properly leg press over 1000 lbs and my legs arent huge either. Anyway I stopped fucking around with that and focused more on squats like evicerator said. Those damn leg presses fucked up my knees so bad I couldnt even run for a while. Keep it safe bro

 

[muscleup]

People start fucking there knees up when they go below parallel,it takes a lot of the constant tension of the working muscle also,but I'm also guilty of this,but usually anything below parallel starts digging into the tendon...ouch

 

[3Vandoo]

I hate legs press for one particular reasons

Its take way too much time to handle all the plates

 

[Hugh Gellatts]

"People start fucking there knees up when they go below parallel,it takes a lot of the constant tension of the working muscle also,but I'm also guilty of this,but usually anything below parallel starts digging into the tendon...ouch"


On a squat stopping at parallel puts more stress on the knee than going rock bottom. I could understand the whole 90 degree thing when you are talking about open chain quad excercises like leg extensions, as an extreme ROM will further magnify the sheer force on the knee. On squats though you are not just working quads, but also hamstrings and glutes. While the leverage advantage shifts away from the quads towards the bottom position, at that point the hamstrings and glutes take up the slack. The point at which you reverse at the bottom is a powerful position for the glutes and hams....reversing at parallel will place alot of stress right at the point at which your quad already has poor leverage but the other muscles can't fully compensate.


also I don't quit get what you mean by "digging into tendon"? maybe you have iotibial band syndrome, which can be caused by muscle imbalance between the legs or poor flexibility?

 

[DMSO Demon]

Nice work on the leg Press, I've recently started Blasting my Legs away too in hopes of matching them to my upper body.Here's a pic, I don't really know how much it was nor do I care, I just go by the feeling of the weight , making sure I'm hittin' 90 degrees at the bottom of the movement,that I at least hit 12 reps, and that I'm sore as hell the next day..All I know is I racked the leg Press and even had to hang a 45 off the sled for more poundage.

 

[flickenu]

i remember last year at the gym i train rodd ketchens (i dont know if any of you know who he is, he was mr usa a while back, placed 17th at the ironman invitational this year) was doing leg presses with the bars fully loaded and his knee gave out and i've never seen so many peoples jaws drop at once. luckily he had spotters there to bring it up. he was out for a year just from that knee injury, it was nuts.

 

[Widi]

Hey D-Demon, I wouldnt trust those skinny guys (those on the pic, specially the one on the right) helpin you. I cant believe they can do anything to stop that weight coming down on you if you fail to lift!

 

[DMSO Demon]

hehe, I hear ya, I think they're just there for emotional support anyway!!