Jigger Jay wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:
Jigger Jay wrote:
Friday is when I get to go downstairs and smash the gooseberry fool out of the leg press (180kg I can do on that, 3 sets, of 10reps.)
Why leg press when you can squat instead?
Because I like to leg press? Isn't it the same core muscles worked?
Squat = free weight exercise
Leg press = machine-assisted exercise
Check Google for more information.
http://onestopmuscle.co.uk/index.php/2011/09/squats-superior-to-leg-press-for-hypertrophy/Quote:
The leg press is not totally evil. It offers certain advantages, like a simpler learning curve than the squat, although the squat is easy to learn with a good, qualified coach. The leg press may offer other advantages in rehabilitative clinical settings, for people with certain disabilities and other limiting factors, or as an accessory movement. It is tough to take any exercise seriously when televangelist Pat Robertson claims he can leg press 2000 pounds, and 73 year old Madelyn Albright stated in the New York Times she can do over 400 pounds! Strength and conditioning coach, legend and author Mark Rippetoe, sums it up best: “There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.