Leg Press

Legs · Machine

How to do it

Back and hips against the pad, feet shoulder width in the middle of the platform. Lower until your knee is a little under 90 degrees, or as far as you can **without your hips leaving** the pad, and press without locking the knees hard. You feel quads and glutes. The classic and genuinely risky mistake is going so deep that your lower back rounds off the seat.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Glutes

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