Calf Press On The Leg Press Machine

Calves · Machine

How to do it

On the leg press, place just the balls of your feet on the bottom edge of the platform with your knees nearly straight. Push through the toes to the top and lower to a full stretch. It lets you load heavily with your back supported. You feel the gastrocnemius. **Bent knees here are dangerous**: keep the knee nearly extended so the platform cannot fold onto you.

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.

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