Leg Press
How to do it
- Sit in the machine with your back and hips flat against the pad.
- Place your feet shoulder-width in the middle of the platform. Release the safety handles.
- Lower the platform until your knees reach about 90 degrees.
- Press back up without locking your knees out hard at the top.
- Never let your lower back round off the pad - that is what shortening the range is for.
Muscles it trains
Percent of one session's target for that muscle. Anything at 100% finishes that muscle on its own.
- Quads 100%
- Glutes 45%
- Adductors (inner thigh) 30%
- Hamstrings 10%
- Calves 10%
Other ways to train this
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Barbell Squat
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Hack Squat
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Goblet Squat
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Front Squat
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Smith Machine Squat
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Box Squat
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Bodyweight Squat
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Jump Squat
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Kettlebell Front Squat
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Band Squat
Photos and form cues from free-exercise-db, released into the public domain.
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