[quote]e5dimasi wrote:
[quote]buildsomemuscle wrote:
yes squatting down is natural, but putting heavy weight on your neck then squatting down is totally different if you have relatively long femurs your balance will be all messed up, which of course makes it ineffective because its an awkward movement to do.
Now with leg press, its like squatting on some planet which has higher gravity, its practically squatting without the awkwardness of your upper body being pressed down against floor, all of the focus on the legs.
the best thing would of course be to have some sort of belt that could hold weight and you just squat down or something.
And deadlifts are more natural than leg press again, who squats down to pick up stuff from the ground honestly? you bend over pick something up and straighten yourself up again, aka deadlift except what your picking up is damn heavy. [/quote]
squatting down to pick things up is proper. lift with your legs not with your back, right? don’t put the bar on your neck when you squat. it should be above your anterior delts but under the top of your traps below that one neck vertebre that always shows (even on massive guys).
also when you dead lift you are just about doing a squat any way. ass down head and chest up while you pull the weight. only the weight ins on the floor instead of on your back.
unless you have a verticle leg press as opposed to one where the sled is on a 45 degree angle you’re not leg pressing what seems to be 700lbs. the angle takes weight away and is more like 400 or 500lbs.[/quote]
Who are you and why are you resurrecting all of these threads?