Squats or Leg Press?

oddjob62 said:
You could always do it with freeweights....

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Yeah but with free weights, you cant put outrageous weights on the bar :o

The leg press enables you to put scary numbers up...I wouldnt trust 1000lbs over my head on that legpress machine up top..
 
Euro_Hunter said:
Its only rated up to 400lb, but I don't think most of us could press that anyway.
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I'd imagine quite a few people in here could easily leg press 400lbs. I've never used a leg press so I don't know what I'm capable of. :)
 
Euro_Hunter said:
Its only rated up to 400lb, but I don't think most of us could press that anyway.
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Are you sure its 400lb and not kilos?

In the picture it has more than 400lbs on it and I'd be suprised if anyone who could squat 200lbs couldn't easily move 400 on that.
 
Euro_Hunter said:
Its only rated up to 400lb, but I don't think most of us could press that anyway.
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400lb ain't that much for a leg press, even for an average sized and average strength person, and that's for reps.
 
Morba said:
why dont you post something worthwhile to go with your posts?
maybe some reasoning...
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The guy had already made a good choice (which it seems he took from my "worthless" posts). Then you advice an inferior piece of equipment. If you had mentioned it first off i wouldn't have said a thing, but trying to bring it up as a better alternative is just crazy.

1. Generally a smith will be a fair bit more expensive, and the fact that there are more moving parts means more maintenance.
2. The body is not allowed to move along natural path (ie it's forced to use a straight line)
3. The smith basically turns a lift into a machine lift that you load freeweights onto. Are you trying to tell me that a machine squat/bench/etc is better than the freeweight version of the lifts?
4. There is nothing safer about a smith machine compared to a power rack.
 
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