Leg Presses with POLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[EmperorIQ]

so? What do you guys think a good ratio for leg pressing is?

 

[Sluggo]

Leg pressing is relatively easy for me, I can do 5x(I'm 200lbs) my body weight. There are guys at my gym who can do more than that.

 

[EmperorIQ]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Leg pressing is relatively easy for me, I can do 5x(I'm 200lbs) my body weight. There are guys at my gym who can do more than that.

I'm gonna have to change the poll in that case

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: EmperorIQ

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Leg pressing is relatively easy for me, I can do 5x(I'm 200lbs) my body weight. There are guys at my gym who can do more than that.

I'm gonna have to change the poll in that case

It also depends on the machine, the slide machines are much more difficult than the pivot machines. My gym is a pivot machine.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

in high school when I weighed 145 I was pressing 845lbs, I was also doing "certified" squats of 395lbs.

(by "certified" I mean thighs being below the knee and held there for 2 seconds before standing back up)

I haven't maxed since High school but I'm now 165, and a good bit stronger, although my stamina has wained as I no longer have the time to run 2-4miles a day like I did then. (yes, I was a cross country runner)

 

[Howard]

Why don't you squat instead? No spotter?

 

[LordMaul]

(yes, I was a cross country runner)

Girly man.

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: Sluggo

Originally posted by: EmperorIQ

Originally posted by: Sluggo
Leg pressing is relatively easy for me, I can do 5x(I'm 200lbs) my body weight. There are guys at my gym who can do more than that.

I'm gonna have to change the poll in that case

It also depends on the machine, the slide machines are much more difficult than the pivot machines. My gym is a pivot machine.

i was about to say that...and pics of your huge freakin legs.

1'm 200 and press about 500 on a slide(no mechanical advantage) machine

 

[iwantanewcomputer]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
in high school when I weighed 145 I was pressing 845lbs, I was also doing "certified" squats of 395lbs.

(by "certified" I mean thighs being below the knee and held there for 2 seconds before standing back up)

I haven't maxed since High school but I'm now 165, and a good bit stronger, although my stamina has wained as I no longer have the time to run 2-4miles a day like I did then. (yes, I was a cross country runner)

it's fun doing more than huge football players on the leg press
<---cc runner

 

[EmperorIQ]

Originally posted by: Howard
Why don't you squat instead? No spotter?

yea, i dont' have a spotter. I do squats, but I tend to try harder in leg presses since I dont' want to push myself too much w/o a spotter in squats. I currently do 10 reps of 720 on a sliding leg press machine.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: iwantanewcomputer


...i was about to say that...and pics of your huge freakin legs....

My legs arent that huge, my thighs are about 25" around, just freakishly strong in some aspects. I am short and stocky to start which helps in the mechanics of some leg exercises, and just naturally strong in my legs. I cant squat much since I have some balance issues from many years of ear infections when I was a young tot.

Many years ago a girlfriend and myself were messing around in the pool, I wrapped my legs around her, hooked my ankles together and squeezed my legs real hard....I ended up cracking a few of her ribs :shocked:

oops, sorry about that hon...

 

[Rudee]

Most little guys at my gym who do leg presses load up lots of weight, but only go down a few inches. That's a joke. A proper leg press is all the way down until you hamstrings touch your calves, then all the way back up again, not these short movements that 75% of people do.

 

[glugglug]

Originally posted by: Rudee
Most little guys at my gym who do leg presses load up lots of weight, but only go down a few inches. That's a joke. A proper leg press is all the way down until you hamstrings touch your calves, then all the way back up again, not these short movements that 75% of people do.

No, that is how you blow your kneecaps. Legpressing with your knees bent past about 90 degrees is dangerous for that.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: glugglug

Originally posted by: Rudee
Most little guys at my gym who do leg presses load up lots of weight, but only go down a few inches. That's a joke. A proper leg press is all the way down until you hamstrings touch your calves, then all the way back up again, not these short movements that 75% of people do.

No, that is how you blow your kneecaps. Legpressing with your knees bent past about 90 degrees is dangerous for that.

http://exrx.net/ExInfo/Squats.html

The primary danger to the knee occurs when the tissues of the calf and thigh press together altering the center of rotation back to the contact area creating a dislocation effect. The danger of knee injury in this situation may be prevented if either of the following factor are present:

- center of gravity of the body system is keep forward of the altered center of rotation
- muscles of the thigh are strong enough to prevent the body from resting or bouncing on the calves.

Kreighbaum conclude the deep squat is of little danger to the knees unless these variables and factors are disregarded

 

[mindmaniac]

well doing presses properly, meaning a 90 degree angle I'm able to do 700. I'm 140 lbs, but don't have big legs at all. I also do 3 set of 12 reps with 200 lb leg extensions per leg. Other than those two things at the gym I'm weaker than hell. Right now all I can bench is my weight, and curling over 35 lbs makes my arms fall apart.

Expain that? And I never did leg exercises before to get myself into this other that bike a lot when I was a kid.

 

[Ricemarine]

I stopped doing leg presses, I probably did it improperly fully extending my legs.

I got knee injuries after it, never went back to leg press.