I've just recently started back to lifting after a long (15 year) hiatus. I'd been doing leg presses, as a build-up to getting into squats, but then the leg press machine at my YMCA got torn up.
I went ahead and started doing squats on the Smith machine instead, but I can tell that it's a crap exercise - the strict up-and-down motion, plus the non-involvement of the stablizing muscles is too wierd, and I can tell it is not really a squat that I'm doing. More like the exercise formerly known as squats.
This stupid gym does not have a squat rack, if you can believe that!
Are ther any other exercises I can do to hit the same muscles on leg days? I remember from before that leg days were supposed to give you jelly-wheels for a good 12 to 24 hours after. Not getting that now.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
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06-15-2004, 10:19 AM #1Registered User
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Substitute for squats / leg press?
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06-15-2004, 10:22 AM #2( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Overhead squats, but you have to go really really light... Dumbell lunges...
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06-15-2004, 03:03 PM #3Sleepy moderator
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front squats...
zerchar squats...
lunges...
there are many but is it not best to just squat...
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06-15-2004, 03:09 PM #4Registered User
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Re: Substitute for squats / leg press?
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Papabear
[B] More like the exercise formerly known as squats.
Classic!! Very sad your "gym" doesn't have a squat rack. Looks like lunges and overheads for you.
Can you (and maybe a few other guys who workout there) petition management to put a rack in??
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06-17-2004, 02:09 PM #5Registered User
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Lunges - great. I can't think of many execises I hate more. All the more reason to embrace them, right?
Thanks all for the responses. If I can find a reasonably priced rack, I may offer to make them the gift of one, if they'll agree to make space for it. Now if I could just figure out a how in the hell to do hyperextensions (can't fnd anything tall enough - I'm about 43 inches fom the hip joint to the top of my head) I'd be set.
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06-17-2004, 02:43 PM #612 to go!
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Dumbell squat...? But if they don't have a rack then they probably have up to 50 or 60lb dbs.
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06-17-2004, 03:29 PM #7Registered User
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Single Leg Squat. It burns and works just as well as a regular squat. It's a little tricky at first working out the balancing part of it, but once you get it down it's gold jerry, gold.
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06-17-2004, 04:03 PM #8Chemically Imbalanced
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i agree...and i especially dig the Seinfeld referenceOriginally posted by Impostor
Single Leg Squat. It burns and works just as well as a regular squat. It's a little tricky at first working out the balancing part of it, but once you get it down it's gold jerry, gold.
http://exrx.net/WeightExercises/Quad...plitSquat.html
edit: i wouldn't say it is as effective as a standard back squat, however...Last edited by Wanker527; 06-17-2004 at 04:15 PM.
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06-17-2004, 04:12 PM #9Banned
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front, zercher, overhead squatting gets my vote
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