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@MarioBrosClassic don’t come too low with your legs, when yo feel that your feet can’t bend any further, it’s time to push the weight up

@kabalakabala ….. I think it’s good to lower the weight until your legs are at about a 90 degree angle (upper leg from lower leg) … lowering it more, especially if you haven’t mastered this exercise, can put you at risk for injury… just my opinion =]

haha I’m 5ft 8 and weigh 78kg so yeah I’m a bit chubby and at my gym the highest option is 180kg and I can happily do 12 reps at over 6 sets without any stress or aching afterwards, is that abnormal? :S

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!

Can someone please tell me how low should we go during the leg press? I know it should not touch the chest, but how low? What should the angle of the knee be?

how the fuck do you keep the weight on your heels when coming down it puts the pressure on your toes and front calf

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Well done man, its great to get a straight down the line and down to earth education in weight training.

@KawaiyoKoji It depends if you ever worked out or doing sports like football. Start off with 50KG is fine, if its easy go to 55-60. You really have to check yourself

How much weight is good for a beginner?

thank you, everyone at the gyn i go to, lock there knees, i tell them not to but they do anyways, maybe caz i am 15.

hey mate thanks for the demonstration, that machine scares me a lot. Does the leg press help to build up good muscles to sustain and protect the knees?
keep up the work out!

@MrChubib0 , well… front and back thigh, and the sides of the thighs

@nxtztxn lol yeah really

Thanks for the tip! Helps a lot

what is the major effects of this?.

mr bean

@TRISKADEXTER the funniest comment ever posted! :O)

Not nice lmfao

this soja…whatever person does not know what they are talking about. I just talked to my anatomy and physiology teacher and he said that muscle tone is based on low body fat. they also said that that being “bulky” allows striations of the muscle to be more visible even if bodyfat percentage is over 10%. so you know what youre talking about mrsunseeker

@fornello123

Stacked with 45′s? Well it depends on the model – the life fitness model at my gym has two posts on each side, most other models only have one. So on a newer machine you can load 6 discs on each post, so 24 to a machine will give you just over a 1000 lbs but you need to look at the model to see.

what is the maximum capacity of a leg press machine (generally) ?

lol…. “ow weight high rep burns more fat than low rep high weight” uh no…. INTENSITY burns fat, and builds muscle, and you can acquire intensity by training smart, whether it is low rep high weight, or mod weight high reps. intensity is all about time under strain and the workload the muscle is performaning in a given ammount of time. intensity = booted up heart rate/metabolism = fat burning machine.

u can have a low bodyfat but it doens’t mean your muscles are toned. my suggestion will get you enduring very strong legs but not bulky. low weight high rep burns more fat than low rep high weight. along with weight training you would be running, or more, depending on how hard u want to train

@Sojaofdapepo being toned relates to bodyfat being low, if the muscles are being excercised regularly already then it’s the variable that makes the difference.