Why do guys do this on the leg press (video)

[peroni]

I am a gym owner and I have kicked out people for such stupidity.

[orion]

You guys are missing the point!  Loading and removing all that weight is a great trap and arm workout.

[BB]

What would you do with a guy like that in the gym?

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/schreg999/videos .

Schreg is the greatest partial lifter the internet has seen, notice he has to chain himself to the seat to contain his partial power -

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It will even entice the women folk (#1300+ at #141) -

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[mesmorph78]

What would you do with a guy like that in the gym?

What the hell is that seriously ... Some guys are just retarded also . There should be a test people have to take before they can join a hardcore gym.

[affeman]

And not a single quad was trained that day

[BB]

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Boom, first you do your leg presses, then you slide down, and do some triceps work.

[njflex]

What the hell is that seriously ... Some guys are just retarded also . There should be a test people have to take before they can join a hardcore gym.

that's ridiculous,,,

[affeman]

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Boom, first you do your leg presses, then you slide down, and do some triceps work.

I think that guy is really mentally challenged, we shouldn't make fun of him..

[bears]

What would you do with a guy like that in the gym?

if you look real close while its in slow motion while zooming in x100 you can see the sled actually moving a little bit.  impressive.

[Agnostic007]

if you look real close while its in slow motion while zooming in x100 you can see the sled actually moving a little bit.  impressive.

What a self absorbed jerk. Ties up every 45 within 5 miles to do that? 

[LittleJ]

I do crab leg press

[_aj_]

The actual "workout" is the farmer's walk with 92 45-lb plates to the leg press. No need to put the weights away at that point. The leg press machine can serve as a weight tree from that point on.

[thegamechanger]

you think the joke is on him?

the joke is on the guy who's next to use the legpress after he left without removing the plates 

[SF1900]

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Boom, first you do your leg presses, then you slide down, and do some triceps work.

This is how a real russian champion trains

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[Mawse]

i saw toney freeman do legpress in a video and he says "no need to go deeper than that, not if youre as tall as i am", what does he mean by that?

If your lower back rounds while leg pressing from going too deep with shitty hip mobility you can blow a disc in your lumbar area

45 degree leg press done with 'bro form' sloppy reps is a really hostile exercise to the discs, as dangerous as shitty deadlift or squat reps but most people don't treat it with respect.

that's why you should use a horizontal leg press, put the seat back and do each rep slowly and with control

[Rudee]

Every gym has clowns who do this.  Same thing with the standing calf machine.

[Primemuscle]

What would you do with a guy like that in the gym?

I'd probably have to step outside to the parking lot to avoid laughing in his face. Yep, there is one born every minute. This thread is proof of that a few of these idiots end up on the leg press doing something they think is an exercise, but is just a big joke in all reality.

[pellius]

I've always thought that full range of motion is always best. With squats and other leg pressing movements it should be ass to ankles or as close to it as possible. Apparently that doesn't seem to be the case. At 6'2" I can't count the number of times I've tweaked my back doing full squats -- not to mention how horribly uncomfortable it is.

Measuring muscle activation using EMG it appears that parallel, 90 degree angle, stimulates the quads the most and that the most effective exercise is the hack squat. Something the Coach will not want to hear and won't believe no matter what science objectively measures.

http://suppversity.blogspot.com/search?q=how+deep+squats

"Turns out the hack squat is the most effective exercise. In that, going deep
(50° knee angle) is only slightly more taxing on the quads than the standard
and much safer 90° knee angle."

"What I consider of particular importance is that both in the case of the hack- as well as in the case of the "standard" barbell squat, going beyond parallel (knee angle <70°) is not worth the increased risk of injury (cf. figure 2)."

[Julio Ceasar]

depth and injury is just some bullshit! Plain stupid bullshit!

Its all about stiff people who never stretch their muscles, tendons, joints that get these type of problem. Continue doing the shit and u can do  full motion workout all yourlife. They get pain and stop doing it, instead of continue doing it and let the body adapt. The result lead to one thing, HANDICAPED FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIFE NOT ABEL TO DO FULL MOTION BODY WORKOUT!

I know the truth!

How come every singel guy I know why learned to do deep squat in the begining can contiue doing them all their life? And those who do half squat complain about kneepain?

[heenok]

I just cant stand people who do those weird complicated workouts. Like they are some super high level athletes and they need a very specific workout.
Remind me of this mma douche bag at my gym, guy just wander around the gym randomly using whatever is on his way to do the most stupid shit ever like burpess/lateral raise hybrid then he moves to leg press then he moves to hanging leg raises....  IT DOESNT MAKE ANY LOGICAL SENS YOU FUCKING SCUMBAG

[Julio Ceasar]

Well, some people are delusional and dont know how to do things. They never get good at anything. Or maybe dosent want to get god at anything, just move their body a little bit. But I guess, retard is the truth in most cases!

[heenok]

At the end of the day those people are craving for attention. They are just waiting for someone to ask them about what they are doing. Key is too ignore them completly.

[mesmorph78]

At the end of the day those people are craving for attention. They are just waiting for someone to ask them about what they are doing. Key is too ignore them completly.

I agree but it's hard to ignore when you are waiting to use the machine and some fucking idiot is doing that fuckery on it.... 

[chaos]

I've always thought that full range of motion is always best. With squats and other leg pressing movements it should be ass to ankles or as close to it as possible. Apparently that doesn't seem to be the case. At 6'2" I can't count the number of times I've tweaked my back doing full squats -- not to mention how horribly uncomfortable it is.

Measuring muscle activation using EMG it appears that parallel, 90 degree angle, stimulates the quads the most and that the most effective exercise is the hack squat. Something the Coach will not want to hear and won't believe no matter what science objectively measures.

http://suppversity.blogspot.com/search?q=how+deep+squats

"Turns out the hack squat is the most effective exercise. In that, going deep
(50° knee angle) is only slightly more taxing on the quads than the standard
and much safer 90° knee angle."

"What I consider of particular importance is that both in the case of the hack- as well as in the case of the "standard" barbell squat, going beyond parallel (knee angle <70°) is not worth the increased risk of injury (cf. figure 2)."

I take it you're not a fan of ATG paused squats?

[_aj_]

If your lower back rounds while leg pressing from going too deep with shitty hip mobility you can blow a disc in your lumbar area

45 degree leg press done with 'bro form' sloppy reps is a really hostile exercise to the discs, as dangerous as shitty deadlift or squat reps but most people don't treat it with respect.

that's why you should use a horizontal leg press, put the seat back and do each rep slowly and with control

I've read that it's actually worse than squats for two reasons: because it encourages people to use weights far in excess of what they are capable of doing. With squats, there is usually some sanity there. Also, the position of the back relative to the weight being moved is somewhat like doing a squat while bent forward. Like a good morning with a squat in the middle.

I've hurt myself on squats but the pain that I subjected my back to while I was "resting" my back with the leg press 20 years ago was epic.