An excellent leg burner to accompany a full leg press – this one forces you to control the leg press between the safety catches of the machine!
To up the ante and intensity of the leg press – evolving to the single leg press makes for a great and challenging variation. You will lift drastically less weight due to halving the amount of muscles doing the exercise but it will feel like your single leg is doing twice as much! This exercise can be evolved further by the positioning of the foot on the plate. Lower will have more quad engagement and higher will be more glute and hamstring.
This exercise isn’t always going to be available to you in terms of equipment type and variations. Not all leg presses have space at the bottom of the foot plate where you can safely or functionally have your heels ro flex and extend the ankle. If you have access to a leg press that does have this – awesome! You’re in the right place!
The Leg Press has often had a bad reputation in the gym. Elitists mocking it because EVERYONE SHOULD SQUAT. Yeah, whatever ya big meat heads.
The Leg press has a multitude of uses that make it a fantastic piece of equipment. You can go much heavier than with squats, you can use it for rehabilitation.. the list can go on.
Ensuring that your back isn’t copping the load is important and remember – it shouldn’t matter how heavy you lift.. we want a weight that does the job. You’d be surprised as to how many people lift too heavy and don’t get the full benefits of the Leg Press!