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HOLY SHIT! Yeah, I'm a freek! 
This was a very impressive achievement for me. Now remember, I'm only 170lbs, 5'5", so people in my gym were looking at me like I was nuts. I never power lift, I always try to do 12-10-8 sets regardless of exersize, so I'll modify the weight accordingly in order to perform these 3 sets with good form.
I trained legs on Friday and the first exercise I did was incline leg press. This particular machine has 2 weight bars on each side, each with a capacity of 7 45lb plates. I started with a warm up of 10 plates (450lbs). Then I went to 16 plates (720lbs). It felt like I was doing nothing! So I decided to go with 22 plates (990). Again, I'm banging out sets and coming all the way down! I was like "what the fuck?" I wasn't even pushing that hard, and my breathing was completely controlled. Usually when I feel this good on any exercise, I'll do an extra set, so I threw on another 6 plates, that's 28 total (1260lbs). Ok, now this set was freekin tough, but I managed to bang out 7 or 8 reps. I was impressed. I've never racked the incline leg press before. After 6 years of busting my ass, it payed off.
I'm thinking that from now on, I'll do incline leg press as my last leg exercise since by the end of my workout, my legs wont be able to lift as much and I wont even come close to racking the machine.
Have you guys noticed that most machines in your gym simply dont have enough weight? Do you find yourself racking machines? I can rack leg extensions with ease, and I actually have to add 1 45lb plate and 1 25 lb plate to the rack with another pin to make it a challenge. Lat pull downs are the same, I have to add a 25lb plate to the rack. I'm not trying to show-off, I mean, it's actually very inconvienient to rack machines because you have to add additional plates to the machine in which it wasn't meant for. It's unsafe, and I've seen cables snap in my gym every so often and I certainly dont want any part of that!
And no!, my gym is not some half-ass fitness center with Nautilus machines where senior citizens go to sit in the steam room all day or do curls with 5lb dumbbells and actually think they're exercising! HAHA; it is a hard-core gym.
SAF
This was a very impressive achievement for me. Now remember, I'm only 170lbs, 5'5", so people in my gym were looking at me like I was nuts. I never power lift, I always try to do 12-10-8 sets regardless of exersize, so I'll modify the weight accordingly in order to perform these 3 sets with good form.I trained legs on Friday and the first exercise I did was incline leg press. This particular machine has 2 weight bars on each side, each with a capacity of 7 45lb plates. I started with a warm up of 10 plates (450lbs). Then I went to 16 plates (720lbs). It felt like I was doing nothing! So I decided to go with 22 plates (990). Again, I'm banging out sets and coming all the way down! I was like "what the fuck?" I wasn't even pushing that hard, and my breathing was completely controlled. Usually when I feel this good on any exercise, I'll do an extra set, so I threw on another 6 plates, that's 28 total (1260lbs). Ok, now this set was freekin tough, but I managed to bang out 7 or 8 reps. I was impressed. I've never racked the incline leg press before. After 6 years of busting my ass, it payed off.
I'm thinking that from now on, I'll do incline leg press as my last leg exercise since by the end of my workout, my legs wont be able to lift as much and I wont even come close to racking the machine.
Have you guys noticed that most machines in your gym simply dont have enough weight? Do you find yourself racking machines? I can rack leg extensions with ease, and I actually have to add 1 45lb plate and 1 25 lb plate to the rack with another pin to make it a challenge. Lat pull downs are the same, I have to add a 25lb plate to the rack. I'm not trying to show-off, I mean, it's actually very inconvienient to rack machines because you have to add additional plates to the machine in which it wasn't meant for. It's unsafe, and I've seen cables snap in my gym every so often and I certainly dont want any part of that!
And no!, my gym is not some half-ass fitness center with Nautilus machines where senior citizens go to sit in the steam room all day or do curls with 5lb dumbbells and actually think they're exercising! HAHA; it is a hard-core gym.
SAF
But have leg pressed 8 rep sets knee to chest with 1400+ on the 45 leg press. I'm beggining to suspect that there is not much of a correlation between leg press poundage and actual leg strength.
