'Official Postwhore Thread'

[Amorphic]

what's the diff between a hack squat and leg press?

leg press is seated, hack squat on the machine is standing with the pads on your shoulders.

hack squats freeweight are with the bar behind your back as if you're deadlifting backwards

[Kratos]

On a hack squat you're squating the weight and a leg press you're pressing the weight.

It looks lke the same excersise to me though, what muscles are you using differntly?

[Amorphic]

leg day for me is

leg press
cage squats
calf raises
lunges
hamstring curls
hack squat machine
leg extension

it absolutely destroys my legs

[SMCengineer]

I don't know how you guys can do so many exercises on leg day if your lifting to full intensity. I just can't seem to do more than squats on leg days and that alone is enough to kill my legs for 3 days.

[Kratos]

but why not just go heavier and harder with real squats? What are you accomplishing with the hack squat machine?

[SMCengineer]

but why not just go heavier and harder with real squats? What are you accomplishing with the hack squat machine?

Exactly my thoughts.

[Kratos]

I guess it is different for your ass muscles than leg press because the angle is different at the hips.

[Amorphic]

but why not just go heavier and harder with real squats? What are you accomplishing with the hack squat machine?

i only tried using it recently, more for a cool down at the end when ive exhausted myself with cage squats. i can go deeper on the hack machine than i can with cage squats. it just seems like a nice finishing exercise to me when i do it.

[Amorphic]

lunges have been the real killer lately for me, they demolish your hams and glutes. i could hardly walk after i finished 4 sets of them

[SMCengineer]

Even on leg press, no matter how heavy i go, I never seem to be sore the next day. It pisses me off so I don't do them either.

[Amorphic]

my legs are usually sore for 4-5 days after leg day.

it gets to the point where i have to walk like frankenstein for a few days until it eases up. i still want to get my legs a lot bigger though.

[Kratos]

Even on leg press, no matter how heavy i go, I never seem to be sore the next day. It pisses me off so I don't do them either.

someone grafted gorilla legs on your body though

[Kratos]

what do you squat morph, and how many reps?

[SMCengineer]

someone grafted gorilla legs on your body though

It's funny cause I get a bunch of guys PMing me asking what I do for my legs and when I tell them that all I do is heavy deep squats, they don't really believe me.

[Amorphic]

what do you squat morph, and how many reps?

225 is my standard weight i use most of the time, i have a really hard time with squats for some reason so i dont squat overly heavy, i still now just try to concentrate on form and going as deep as i can.

reps are usually 8-10 for 4 sets, sometimes i throw a bit more weight on and shoot for 6-8. nothing amazing though

[SMCengineer]

225 is my standard weight i use most of the time, i have a really hard time with squats for some reason so i dont squat overly heavy, i still now just try to concentrate on form and going as deep as i can.

reps are usually 8-10 for 4 sets, sometimes i throw a bit more weight on and shoot for 6-8. nothing amazing though

Go less reps and heavier and try going deeper. That should do the trick.

[Amorphic]

Go less reps and heavier and try going deeper. That should do the trick.

how many reps do you usually do blome?

[Kratos]

like I said squats are my big exercise for legs, I just keep putting more and more weight...it's great. The bicycling I do helps whatever muscles I miss so I don't worry.

[SMCengineer]

how many reps do you usually do blome?

My first set I go as heavy as I can for 1-3 reps usually with a spot, but even without. Than for my next three sets I keep it at 6-8 reps. Finally, my last set I do a "widowmaker" set where I do 20 reps at a weight that I can usually only do for 15 reps. The last set is killer.

*All sets and reps are as low as I can go. Usually below parallel and that's measured from the top of the quad not the hamstring.
Of course I warm-up before all of this with light squats.

[Amorphic]

My first set I go as heavy as I can for 1-3 reps usually with a spot, but even without. Than for my next three sets I keep it at 6-8 reps. Finally, my last set I do a "widowmaker" set where I do 20 reps at a weight that I can usually only do for 15 reps. The last set is killer.

*All sets and reps are as low as I can go. Usually below parallel and that's measured from the top of the quad not the hamstring.
Of course I warm-up before all of this with light squats.

nice, i might give that a try

[Kratos]

too many sets imo morph. What I do is warm up on the exercise bike for like 2 min. THen I put 135 on the bar (you could go less) and do like 4 sets of 5 reps to warm up.

THen I'll put 225 on and do 2 sets of 3
This is just to warm up and some time shooting the shit between sets

Then I'll go super heavy for just one set aiming to almost fail on the 8th rep
for me tonight it was 385

Then I'll do one drop set at 225, maybe do like 10 reps

It's kinda a wierd routine but doing one super heavy set works the best for me

I like going to failure on one heavy set for a lot of my exercises. When I don't fail until 12 reps its time to add more weight next time.

[Amorphic]

i'll try going heavy next leg day.

[SMCengineer]

^^don't try.

[Amorphic]

^^don't try.

i will go heavy next leg day

[SMCengineer]

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