Why we prefer to squat than leg press?
Fit Girl | Aug 18, 2010 | Comments 0
So here’s the thing, you go into the gym and all of the grunting sweaty men are in the weights area, and you lil FGs dash straight for the testosterone-free machines. STOP. HOLD UP!!! Step away from the machines, they do not make your body work like the Goddess that is the free weight!! So let’s break it down. You have the squat, or the leg press, let’s see how they compare shall we?
1. Squat – standing on own two feet. Using energy to hold your body up against gravity!
1. Leg press – sitting on your behind. That means you ain’t using it because it’s squished into a seat. If you want your butt toned, for got sake use it.
2. Squatting down requires you to use all of the muscles in you torso and lower body to stop you from falling over. Keeping your chest lifted on the way down into a squat works your back and mid-section, and you thought you were just working your legs!
2. Leg press, still sitting on your butt incidentally, you straighten up your legs against the resistance of the weight in a pretty unnatural movement (how useful to translate that into real life, it’s likely that that move is only busted on the dancefloor if anywhere!)
3. Ouch I can feel everything working! Since you have to stand up and move your body to use your body, them muscles-es are gonna be hurting by set 3!!
3. Leg-press – “ooh I can really feel that burn in my muscles from all of these reps Heathcliffe”. Looks like your butt is still squished into a seat and out of action, so about that burn you’re feeling? Frankly, I don’t give a damn!!
Are you getting the message here FGs? We don’t dig machines, we dig you, as a machine, working the free weights as intended! So c’mon, shimmy shimmy ya into the weights room, don’t be scared, your bangin’ body is gonna be worth a few nerves!! And Jesus, Mary and Joseph, do not touch the adductor machine. You want slim inner thighs? Then lunge honey!! Adductor machine aschmuctor machine, it’ll burn about as much fat as me sitting on my tush eating cupcakes…Mmmm now there’s a thought…ahem! No it’s all about lunging and squatting, using your body and a little free-weight love!!
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