[quote]flipcollar wrote:
[quote]doublelung84 wrote:
The squat is king, hands down. I went through a groin injury and had to back off my heavy squats. After a month layoff from leg training, I started to super-set leg extensions with slant board squats. I am barely sore the next day when before I would limp for 2 days.
For years my previous program was to squat; nothing else, just squat and squat some more.
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Soreness /= massive legs. Not sure how this is relevant, unless you can show us your legs got enormous from just squatting.
fwiw, I basically lift like that, I don’t really do leg extensions at all. I also don’t think my program is the best one for hypertrophy. Squatting all the time is the best thing I’ve ever done for strength. Meadow’s Reactive Pump training, which I did for 3 months, induced more leg hypertrophy than squatting alone ever has.[/quote]

I’ve done less than 150 leg presses over the past 14.5yrs of competitive OLIfting.
25inch legs 84kg 5’10. MOST OLifters I’ve met do not have amazing legs. Most have thick legs but don’t have a good quad sweep. Most do not squat deeper than I do and I"ve trained longer than most of them by 2-5x the number of training years. Some Elite olifters do have FREAKISH legs though.
It’s about finding what works for you. Try machines/ whatever squat you want and see if you get results. If not move on, try something different. For me I have never done machines to build the legs that I have built. I’ve just OLIfted and done lots of squats. Never to really get them big but to build strength and to increase my OLifts.
If a person doesn’t squat with a really good ROM their development won’t be the same as someone that does imo.
Koing