Well, I was a big squatter in my early days. That’s what everyone did and it was macho exercise as well. It was like if you don’t squat then you are not even a real man. That was the attitude in the gym. And, of course, Tom Platz was the big guy around back then, with his massive legs and his preaching about squats. But there were times when I was forced to look at alternatives – from the free weight squat anyway.
I would always pre-exhaust before I got onto the compound exercises, but I did leg press, and hack squatting, or squatting on a Smith machine instead of going to squats. And I found I got much better development from these exercises than from just heavy squatting. It depends a lot on your structure, but it (the squat) didn’t suit me. So hack squats, leg presses and pre-exhaustion with leg extensions.
Austin Mitchell
Right here bro.
Protip: knees are designed to bend.
Benjamin King
Leg press devastated my sacroiliac joints. Had to take a month off before resuming normal squats. Now no more pain and stronger legs.
Easton Perry
>isolated excercise vs. full body excercise
Gavin Phillips
Too true.
Dylan Powell
do you do ATG, slightly below parallel, or parallel squats?
I keep getting conflicting info, and I want someone who has a lot of experience tell me how they did it
Daniel Lee
Late,but somehow still inb4 that webm of a girls knees getting mashed up from using a leg press machine wrong and locking out her knees
Carter Moore
Is Romanian deadlift a good excersise for hamstrings or is it too dangerous for your lower back to be worth it?
Jayden Long
Heavy squats low reps followed by dropsets on leg press is GOAT (and/or will make you puke)
Owen Taylor
Do you guillotine press? Because with a normal bench press, the bar travels to your chest in most of the ROM
