I just load up 1000 pounds and do 20% range of motion. I call them knee crunches, because of the cool sound they make. Then I leave all the plates on the leg press machine so everyone else remembers how strong I am, and strut around the gym like a peacock. I’ve still got legs like Michael Jackson, but I feel so powerful.
I saw this little Latina woman doing like 2 plates. She was doing maybe 15-30% rom and locking out on every rep. I had to look away because she was giving me anxiety and I was scared she was gonna explode her legs
@@OneRageyBoiiJust curious, but how is mentioning that she was Latin pertinent to your story? Would it have been different if she were, let's say, Indian or White? Just curious.
@@danski6694 the most you can do on a leg press. I only recommend you even worry about leg press maxes if you want to be a professional human jack for vehicle part theft
@@jamesmorris9982 so if u do legs on wednesday. They still hurt on monday evening. BUT monday and tuesday were xmas non business days. So then ur legs hurt until next year
I’ve been watching Ryans content since 2019. Behind all the comedy he does in lieu of. He has consistently shown he’s the real deal with proper technique to failure and blunt about it. Making it really simple for anyone to achieve results.
The technique here shown is absolutely horrible for your knees. Force production should be evenly distribute through the whole foot, especially with multiples of ones own bw.
@@dimitrizloterek9149If you overload it, sure. The notion that sissy squats are bad for your knees seems to be very much in question these days, however. I won't claim to _know,_ but I've seen many speak of how sissys squats are _good_ for your knees as long as you progress slowly and with weight you can handle.
I don't think Dr Mike would be on board with this one. It's true that the lower you go the more quad you get. But you lose power having your heel off the pad. You should start at the top and move your stance down til you reach the point just above where your heels can't stay flat on the pad.
@sh0ckwavex, it's reasonable on the squats with barbells, but not when you are lying on your back, because on leg presses is no need for a balance, so you can use your quads on 100% without falling or shaking.
@Bapiten-hy3lk it's not so much balance. You can just get alot more power driving with a flat foot. When your feet are at the bottom of the pad. Your heels want to raise off the ground & all the weight is going through the top of your foot. It's intuitively awkward. Seems like instead of fixing the issue. This technique just hides it. Can't tell your heels aren't flat if they aren't on the pad at all!
The reason dr Mike would be against this is because he’s stated multiple times your body won’t produce the proper force when it detects instability this is stupidity this excercise
Tom Platz uses that balls of your feet position on the platform on hack presses.There's more knee stress but,much more quad involvement.Good info here.
Leg press is great for people who can't do squats, due to back issues. However, the exercise uses a lot more glutes and lower back in the movement. It's not good for people to bring their knees too close to their chest, either, because that promotes straightening of the lower back and causing a lot of stress to that region. (We need to maintain postural alignment.) Moving your feet where you had them just means you're now doing calf raises at the same time. It's also unsafe because you have far less grip on the plate. One slip and you've got all that weight slamming down on you.
I was born with sticks for legs and even with a 535lb squat they were still sticks. High rep leg presses with narrow stance was the only excercise that that would grow my quads.
volume is what’ll make your legs bigger, not load, thats probably why you had that reaction. theres been bodybuilders that had heroic 1RM squats, but still had small legs because they only did low volume, high load, they never trained for reps. My legs have always grown pretty nice and I NEVER do a rep range under 8-10 on my squats
@@brandonvacchio7614no scientific evidence for that. Maybe you aren’t able to achieve the same closeness to failure as in higher weight exercises. But that’s a mental issue
@@gardeningniceperson there’s a lot of evidence that higher rep ranges builds mass more, the range is just really wide, anywhere from 7-30 reps is all gonna do basically the same thing. It’s not a “mental issue”, if you do 4/5 reps or less with a shitload of weight, you’re gonna build less mass. Training to failure is also not super important, anywhere from 3RIR-failure will produce similar results, and training TO failure all the time will actually produce worse results over the long term because of the recovery cost unless you’re specifically doing very high intensity at low volume.
Seriously just be careful as to not crush your lateral meniscus like I did ...slightly. I wasnt even going heavy. But I still have to say it does work.
Thanks to your tip I started positioning my feet so low that they are completely out of the plate. Now I'm pressing the air with optimal stretching AND without all the unnecessary pain: welcome to SS tier.
Yea believe or not i used to do leg press with like 9 to 10 plates each side and feeling powerful and easy. Then once i saw how Dorian Yates talked about lower the bench all the way to the ground and stop the "Hip Rotation". Now i have trouble finishing 5 plates each. But my Quads are building and getting bigger and stronger ever since. No joke
Huh. This feels like decently solid confirmation of the conclusion I came to about making leg press into a quad exercise a year ago, including that not even having my heels on the plate being fine and good. Neat.
What’s good for tension and maximum muscle gain for one may not be what some of us need. I’m a 68 year old who has mobility issues and light pain in my right hip flexors so it’s an important exercise for me. And based on your video, instead of keeping my feet lowered, I keep them higher up on the platform to work the hip flexors. Just depends what each of us is trying to achieve. Just don’t want people to be misled with the video if we’re working our hips/hip flexors. Squats are good for me to tighten the glutes to take pressure off the hip flexors.
It's best to speak to a physiotherapist or exercise physiologist (or your doctor) first. They can give better advise than anyone can here. Personally, I'm certified for training people of all ages, but personal trainers aren't specialists. Clients need to seek the advice of medical specialists who can advise them of what is safest and most effective for their needs. The roll of a personal trainer is to guide and motivate clients on the basis of what they can safely perform, to meet their goals. I hope that makes sense. I know you only have my word on this.
If you want to experience some serious pain, on your last set, the very last rep, just pause in the all the way down position, maximum quad stretch, and just sit there, time yourself to see how long it takes for you to flail squirm out of there.
Depends on what you're trying to target. Pre exhaust your quads on the leg extensions, then get on the leg press and foot position is almost irrelevant. Your quads will be on fire. I personally don't like squats because of my ridiculously long femurs, so leg press is my leg exercise of choice. I use a high foot position and go pretty deep. This is the only exercise that activates my glute max. Yup, I load the shit out of it and do slow tempo reps with no pause. If you think it's easy try it. Each rep should take you 8 seconds. 4 seconds down; 4 seconds up. Doubt most people can get 8-10 reps with any significant weight.
I used to load up 1100lbs for 8 with feet up high. Never got great quad development from it though. Now do much lighter with similar foot placement as this video and get much better results.
That foot plate is big for a reason so you have many options for feet placement that contact work different parts of your legs, butt cheeks quads inside legs hips
Oh yeah thats serious knees over toes. Don't do this heavy right away. Your feet need to be very strong. I ran barefoot for years...if your feet aren't built up you could get an easy injury...but it will build them and dynamically stretch them too! Just go less than you can seemingly do for a while with it
Doing these by pushing through your toes is just fucking dangerous. You are supposed to push through your heels. Doing calves on the leg press is totally different because you are not bending your knees and keep the safety on. Actually slightly bent for calves and using all foot and ankles.
I have a rusty vertical leg press. I crush myself for mass and strength doing sets of 3-6 in heavy barbell or SSB squats, then the last two sets I run over and do a narrow stance leg press. Never felt my quads burn more after that superset in over 25 years of training 💪 Two basic movements. All ya need.
Fun fact: Dorian Yates never squatted due to a permanent injury, he leg pressed instead… I’m not saying Ryans wrong or anything however if you have prolapsed discs or any other injury that prevents you from squatting like myself it’s not the end of the world.
That’s why form matters you can use any machine do the exercise the wrong way and hit the wrong muscle my legs went up in size by 2.5 inches doing leg press only
Sounds good, but since I have knee issues from a road accident, I would be hesitant to have my knee that far in front of my toes at the stretch position.
I do all of them but I'm doing it for over all agility and strength not targeting specific muscles. I do 1111 total at 100kg currently (will raise over time) then do those in sets of 111 (because I'm a weirdo... I also count 108 then the remaining 3 the ending number in digits; 108, 1,1,1 then 108 2,2,2 and so forth and the last one needs one more but that is 1,1,1,1 so sorted) I do close together, mid wide and wide then also work my way down until I'm doing the tip toes with each set and a final round doubling up that so that the carves burn like crazy... I can jump like a mad man
I used to max out the 750 pound leg press in high school and I could pretty much do it unlimited. For being 510 I was a beast and I could touch the 10 foot basketball rim but I couldn’t dunk a basketball.
Thats how my dad taught me to do them. Im more of a squat guy. He didnt do free weights or compound exercises. Or eat red meat. He tried. He grew up at a time when it was super sus to work with weights. Like gay sus. And he got convinced of some of that "never work out TOO hard" nonsense. And dont eat meat and eggs silliness. He replaced butter with margarine and olive oil with seed oils. Drank soy milk. They really did a number with the disinformation. You could think you were doing EVERYTHING right.
I never ever ever rated leg press back in my day, always felt crap compared to squats. I think it's a total ego exercise and pretty much a waste of time compared to other options
Many of us have got severe back problems. The press for us is a great machine. I which I could do squats and deadlifting, but I could end up in an ambulance. But there's another machine, the hack and squat, that it's not bad for my back because leans in an angle, and it definitely is more challenging than the press.
@@Queenfisher444 why have all the weight focused on my toes when I can just plant my feet firmly and press the weight? My hips are mobile enough to go full range of motion. Why reinvent the wheel? Just press the weight
I literally came to this video from your stem cell video on hair, ha ha. Seems like you leaned into it now, ha ha. It is inly a battle with time for hair loss, and he lost the battle. Don't worry though, I am almost there to, ha ha.
Be careful here. I got Achilles tendinitis and plantar fasciitis by going too heavy at maximum depth on these. I have a good low squat, snatch, & clean, but without needing to stay balanced over my feet I went even deeper. I'd never used machines much, and drank the Kool-Aid that they're safer than free weights. Careful kids! Be safe out there.
Wow, I've been doing this for months and had never seen anyone else doing it. Tom Platz did something alike in the Hack Squat. This variation is goated.
I just load up 1000 pounds and do 20% range of motion. I call them knee crunches, because of the cool sound they make. Then I leave all the plates on the leg press machine so everyone else remembers how strong I am, and strut around the gym like a peacock. I’ve still got legs like Michael Jackson, but I feel so powerful.
This is an underrated comment 😂
I saw this little Latina woman doing like 2 plates. She was doing maybe 15-30% rom and locking out on every rep. I had to look away because she was giving me anxiety and I was scared she was gonna explode her legs
knee crunches 😂😂😂
Best comment I’ve found in a while. Funny af
@@OneRageyBoiiJust curious, but how is mentioning that she was Latin pertinent to your story? Would it have been different if she were, let's say, Indian or White? Just curious.
That “censored” graphic will definitely go under appreciated in this video 😂😂
I didnt get the joke
@@SpecialOperator peener.
And then your feet slip and you get a one way ticket to snap city
You never worked your calves on the leg press machine!😮 Just have the balls of feet/toes touching the pad and flex forward. Thank me later
@@Bezzle.No one said not to do that
I'd say go lighter
There are safety stops on machines like these.
Thats why there is a SAFETY stop, so that you have nothing to fear
With this advice, my max leg press skyrocketed and now I don't even need a jack when I'm helping my buddy steal catalytic converters
Why are you maxing a leg press anyways 🤦
@@Yvci so I don't get injured jacking up cars to steal cattys baby
Whats a max leg press?
@@danski6694 the most you can do on a leg press. I only recommend you even worry about leg press maxes if you want to be a professional human jack for vehicle part theft
@@jow3st are you romanian?
I started doing the “toe at the bottom” position recently and my quads were cooked for 4 business days
Including the bank holiday on monday?
What if u did them on a friday?
@@akuma4u still 4 business days, weekends don’t count
From friday to Thursday
@@jamesmorris9982 so if u do legs on wednesday. They still hurt on monday evening. BUT monday and tuesday were xmas non business days. So then ur legs hurt until next year
I’ve been watching Ryans content since 2019. Behind all the comedy he does in lieu of. He has consistently shown he’s the real deal with proper technique to failure and blunt about it. Making it really simple for anyone to achieve results.
The technique here shown is absolutely horrible for your knees. Force production should be evenly distribute through the whole foot, especially with multiples of ones own bw.
@@dimitrizloterek9149If you overload it, sure. The notion that sissy squats are bad for your knees seems to be very much in question these days, however. I won't claim to _know,_ but I've seen many speak of how sissys squats are _good_ for your knees as long as you progress slowly and with weight you can handle.
We need a series of Ryan and Dr. Mike...
I don't think Dr Mike would be on board with this one.
It's true that the lower you go the more quad you get. But you lose power having your heel off the pad.
You should start at the top and move your stance down til you reach the point just above where your heels can't stay flat on the pad.
@sh0ckwavex, it's reasonable on the squats with barbells, but not when you are lying on your back, because on leg presses is no need for a balance, so you can use your quads on 100% without falling or shaking.
@Bapiten-hy3lk it's not so much balance. You can just get alot more power driving with a flat foot.
When your feet are at the bottom of the pad. Your heels want to raise off the ground & all the weight is going through the top of your foot. It's intuitively awkward.
Seems like instead of fixing the issue. This technique just hides it. Can't tell your heels aren't flat if they aren't on the pad at all!
Dr Mike would clown on this guy for constantly giving some of the worst advice on youtube.
The reason dr Mike would be against this is because he’s stated multiple times your body won’t produce the proper force when it detects instability this is stupidity this excercise
1 slip and straight to heaven..
Any decently modern leg press will have a safety stop. I swear nobody uses them, but they exist for this reason.
yup. Off to sky daddy.
MF you got me in tears of laughter 😂😂❤🔥
@@Edgar...It's a joke, bro.
@@MichaelF-cc8ri not really. It sounded like a criticism.
Tom Platz uses that balls of your feet position on the platform on hack presses.There's more knee stress but,much more quad involvement.Good info here.
That is how I finish my legs. hard even with 1 plate on each side. Do 1-3 set finishers untill you can't up. Great idea to do
@@isaiahvogt2581 Thumbs up here.
Tom Platz says do squats and not leg press.
Yes he does.There are videos on here him stating that.
Leg press is great for people who can't do squats, due to back issues. However, the exercise uses a lot more glutes and lower back in the movement.
It's not good for people to bring their knees too close to their chest, either, because that promotes straightening of the lower back and causing a lot of stress to that region. (We need to maintain postural alignment.)
Moving your feet where you had them just means you're now doing calf raises at the same time. It's also unsafe because you have far less grip on the plate. One slip and you've got all that weight slamming down on you.
I was born with sticks for legs and even with a 535lb squat they were still sticks. High rep leg presses with narrow stance was the only excercise that that would grow my quads.
We must have distant blood relatives because I have the same problem. Small legs, but powerful. They just don’t grow lol
volume is what’ll make your legs bigger, not load, thats probably why you had that reaction. theres been bodybuilders that had heroic 1RM squats, but still had small legs because they only did low volume, high load, they never trained for reps. My legs have always grown pretty nice and I NEVER do a rep range under 8-10 on my squats
@@brandonvacchio7614no scientific evidence for that. Maybe you aren’t able to achieve the same closeness to failure as in higher weight exercises. But that’s a mental issue
@@gardeningniceperson there’s a lot of evidence that higher rep ranges builds mass more, the range is just really wide, anywhere from 7-30 reps is all gonna do basically the same thing. It’s not a “mental issue”, if you do 4/5 reps or less with a shitload of weight, you’re gonna build less mass. Training to failure is also not super important, anywhere from 3RIR-failure will produce similar results, and training TO failure all the time will actually produce worse results over the long term because of the recovery cost unless you’re specifically doing very high intensity at low volume.
@@gardeningniceperson Nah bro there is plenty of evidence suggesting higher rep ranges (8-12) is greater for hypertrophy while lower
True, is painful 😅
you push a leg press like that with just the upper part of your foot and you're going to have serious knee problems.
He said “welcome to the dirty sanchez tier”! 😂😂😂😂😂
Seriously just be careful as to not crush your lateral meniscus like I did ...slightly. I wasnt even going heavy. But I still have to say it does work.
My knees cried watching that
Thanks to your tip I started positioning my feet so low that they are completely out of the plate. Now I'm pressing the air with optimal stretching AND without all the unnecessary pain: welcome to SS tier.
The at dirty sanchez line just got u a subscriber brother😂
Today is my leg day,,going to mess around with foot position vertically instead of horizontally,, this is right on time!!!!❤, thank you brother
Awesome tip! I'm gonna try it out
Great advise that is backed by science.
I miss this music on your videos Infinity ♾️ its so precious. It was your signature sound for a bit.
Yea believe or not i used to do leg press with like 9 to 10 plates each side and feeling powerful and easy. Then once i saw how Dorian Yates talked about lower the bench all the way to the ground and stop the "Hip Rotation". Now i have trouble finishing 5 plates each. But my Quads are building and getting bigger and stronger ever since. No joke
Huh. This feels like decently solid confirmation of the conclusion I came to about making leg press into a quad exercise a year ago, including that not even having my heels on the plate being fine and good. Neat.
Disagree here.
Go as low as possible while still having the full foot on the platform, and toes out.
Love the mk2 grading system
What’s good for tension and maximum muscle gain for one may not be what some of us need. I’m a 68 year old who has mobility issues and light pain in my right hip flexors so it’s an important exercise for me. And based on your video, instead of keeping my feet lowered, I keep them higher up on the platform to work the hip flexors. Just depends what each of us is trying to achieve. Just don’t want people to be misled with the video if we’re working our hips/hip flexors. Squats are good for me to tighten the glutes to take pressure off the hip flexors.
It's best to speak to a physiotherapist or exercise physiologist (or your doctor) first. They can give better advise than anyone can here. Personally, I'm certified for training people of all ages, but personal trainers aren't specialists. Clients need to seek the advice of medical specialists who can advise them of what is safest and most effective for their needs.
The roll of a personal trainer is to guide and motivate clients on the basis of what they can safely perform, to meet their goals.
I hope that makes sense. I know you only have my word on this.
If only the right people made the money, the world would be very different place.
*Reverse Nordic curls have entered the chat*
If you want to experience some serious pain, on your last set, the very last rep, just pause in the all the way down position, maximum quad stretch, and just sit there, time yourself to see how long it takes for you to flail squirm out of there.
Depends on what you're trying to target.
Pre exhaust your quads on the leg extensions, then get on the leg press and foot position is almost irrelevant. Your quads will be on fire.
I personally don't like squats because of my ridiculously long femurs, so leg press is my leg exercise of choice. I use a high foot position and go pretty deep. This is the only exercise that activates my glute max.
Yup, I load the shit out of it and do slow tempo reps with no pause. If you think it's easy try it. Each rep should take you 8 seconds. 4 seconds down; 4 seconds up. Doubt most people can get 8-10 reps with any significant weight.
I used to load up 1100lbs for 8 with feet up high. Never got great quad development from it though. Now do much lighter with similar foot placement as this video and get much better results.
Hell yeah brother. Hang those heels!! I like to step back off the smith machine too. Goated quad movements🔥
The Mortal kombat tournament climb lol
The MK2 Graphic deserves more recognition
Amen to those hams. 😮
Leg press is popular because its on a 45 degree angle, the weight you put on it is actually 50% of the resistance you'll feel.
Single leg on the press is money
Now one legged!
Set up the crash bars if you're going to do this with heavy weight.
That foot plate is big for a reason so you have many options for feet placement that contact work different parts of your legs, butt cheeks quads inside legs hips
Oh yeah thats serious knees over toes.
Don't do this heavy right away. Your feet need to be very strong. I ran barefoot for years...if your feet aren't built up you could get an easy injury...but it will build them and dynamically stretch them too! Just go less than you can seemingly do for a while with it
Doing these by pushing through your toes is just fucking dangerous. You are supposed to push through your heels. Doing calves on the leg press is totally different because you are not bending your knees and keep the safety on. Actually slightly bent for calves and using all foot and ankles.
Narrowing your feet gives such a great stretch I love it. Gotta make sure your butt stays on the pad though
Wouldn't it be better do the squats with lighter weights? From a hypetrophy perspective?
I have a rusty vertical leg press. I crush myself for mass and strength doing sets of 3-6 in heavy barbell or SSB squats, then the last two sets I run over and do a narrow stance leg press.
Never felt my quads burn more after that superset in over 25 years of training 💪
Two basic movements. All ya need.
Bradley Martin is jacked 😂
Fun fact: Dorian Yates never squatted due to a permanent injury, he leg pressed instead…
I’m not saying Ryans wrong or anything however if you have prolapsed discs or any other injury that prevents you from squatting like myself it’s not the end of the world.
I have 4 bulging discs in my spine from the army, leg press is my go-to now.
This machine is very bad for your bulging discs, unless you recline it to the Max. And even with that angle, is dangerous
That’s why form matters you can use any machine do the exercise the wrong way and hit the wrong muscle my legs went up in size by 2.5 inches doing leg press only
Belt squats with a wider stance , I love belt squats cause my shoulders flexibility blows
I have no problem with any machin or exercise only this one, my knee hearts
The machine isn't doesn't just have to be used for quads. Nothing wrong with the hips being loaded.
With toes off you get more stretch on quad but would you not lose force production and output less work -> less stimulus -> less growth
Exactly, just use heeled weightlifting shoes at that point.
It isolates the quads more, so less weight takes more work. Less systemic fatigue also means more output to the target muscles.
Quads = knee flexion. The more your knee bends, the more loaded the quad
Loading up the press machine 2.5x more weight than a squat just seems frivolous. My legs feel more burnt after the squats anyways.
Please warn people that your feet can slip,dangerously, off of the deck
Sounds good, but since I have knee issues from a road accident, I would be hesitant to have my knee that far in front of my toes at the stretch position.
Look into knees over toes guy, his vids helped rehabilitate my knees
This is probably exactly what your knee needs to be back to normal. Just start with extremely light weight
Love this guys humor, wish he didn’t like PEDs so much but hey this is murika 😂
This is fantastic stuff
I’ll stick with using my whole foot 😂
Shit bro, trying this on Monday.
I do all of them but I'm doing it for over all agility and strength not targeting specific muscles.
I do 1111 total at 100kg currently (will raise over time) then do those in sets of 111 (because I'm a weirdo... I also count 108 then the remaining 3 the ending number in digits; 108, 1,1,1 then 108 2,2,2 and so forth and the last one needs one more but that is 1,1,1,1 so sorted) I do close together, mid wide and wide then also work my way down until I'm doing the tip toes with each set and a final round doubling up that so that the carves burn like crazy... I can jump like a mad man
I used to max out the 750 pound leg press in high school and I could pretty much do it unlimited. For being 510 I was a beast and I could touch the 10 foot basketball rim but I couldn’t dunk a basketball.
Best Fitness CZcams channel! Facts over feelings.
You might as well do hacksquats with that same foot position much much better for quads
Just in time for leg day. Gonna give this a try
You can do that without moving your feet down. You do know the back adjusts right?
I do these because squatting triggers my sciatica
Thats how my dad taught me to do them. Im more of a squat guy. He didnt do free weights or compound exercises. Or eat red meat. He tried. He grew up at a time when it was super sus to work with weights. Like gay sus. And he got convinced of some of that "never work out TOO hard" nonsense. And dont eat meat and eggs silliness. He replaced butter with margarine and olive oil with seed oils. Drank soy milk.
They really did a number with the disinformation. You could think you were doing EVERYTHING right.
That looks like an ankle injury waiting to happen
On CZcams everyone is a fitness expert.
I never ever ever rated leg press back in my day, always felt crap compared to squats. I think it's a total ego exercise and pretty much a waste of time compared to other options
Many of us have got severe back problems. The press for us is a great machine. I which I could do squats and deadlifting, but I could end up in an ambulance. But there's another machine, the hack and squat, that it's not bad for my back because leans in an angle, and it definitely is more challenging than the press.
most people get the leg press wrong because they load to much wait on it and dont go deep enough
Wouldnt going.wider make it easier to push like going wider with deadlift to.more.sumo males it easier
do what I do, super set leg presses with sissy squats while holding a plate
Sounds like a great wait to overload my knees
This comment is a self report. If you’re afraid of using your knees it’s because they are weak, not because the movement is dangerous.
Do better.
@@Queenfisher444 why have all the weight focused on my toes when I can just plant my feet firmly and press the weight? My hips are mobile enough to go full range of motion.
Why reinvent the wheel? Just press the weight
@@devinjohnson5759 do I need to explain basic knee biomechanics to you? Would assume that’s pretty obvious.
I literally came to this video from your stem cell video on hair, ha ha. Seems like you leaned into it now, ha ha. It is inly a battle with time for hair loss, and he lost the battle. Don't worry though, I am almost there to, ha ha.
Wait...I just saw you talking about getting stem cells for hair loss, now I see this. Did the stem cells not end up working?
To the absolute most pressure you can put on your knees.
Andrew Huberman's sauced up cousin
Putting it on my toes hurts my feet at the weights I’m trying to push. I suppose it’s fine for lower weights of course, but less fun.
I put it near my toes then do a few calve raises at the end of a set
Be careful here. I got Achilles tendinitis and plantar fasciitis by going too heavy at maximum depth on these. I have a good low squat, snatch, & clean, but without needing to stay balanced over my feet I went even deeper. I'd never used machines much, and drank the Kool-Aid that they're safer than free weights. Careful kids! Be safe out there.
this is not going to be good for your feet, like when people use plate for heels when squatting, arch in foot will collapse as no support.
True. I was shocked when the first time I did that
Any planter fasciitis from going that low ?😮
I started doing this a month or so agao and felt like I was really doing something wrong....but my quads were really happy.
I’m subbing just for the dirty sanchez tier comment 🤣
Hi Ryan, a fan from Europe here. I remember you've tried stem cells for your hair and had good results. Does the treatment not work anymore?
Has anyone ever told you that you look like Dorian? 🤣🤣🤣
It just hit me haha
Thats why I do single legs and go slow and low
LP ROM is garbage and seems to just hurt the knees. Would rather do full squats or BSS.
Wow, I've been doing this for months and had never seen anyone else doing it. Tom Platz did something alike in the Hack Squat. This variation is goated.
Make it a compound stretch by putting your calves into it.
Thanks for this it helped my leg workout
I only went to this after I blew a disc. Afraid to squat. Moving the toes down looks better tho. Thanks.
Doesn’t that over-stress the tendons and ligaments around the knees to have one’s feet placed that low? Not arguing; just asking.
And that’s how you wreck your knees
Dorian Yates built his legs on leg press.
I do believe that it does in fact make it more difficult but it also makes it easier for injury. potato/ patato
Might As Well Do Leg Extensions No?
Leg press is for people who avoid squats
leg press is just as good as squats