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[afunnymouth]

There is someone out there who watches these shorts half way every time and then clicks away

[lolno]

Dont even care if its better, Platz makes it sound like if you leg press he will personally come over and obliterate you

[Shon]

Wearing a tie at the gym keeping you big as hell

[MostWantedWannaBE]

a compound movement is limited by your weakest link in the chain
a leg press isolates your strong chains and takes out the weak links
meaning you can develop big weaknesses if you ignore the compounds

but also if you have a broken link and squats are impossible but still want to train your legs you do leg presses

pointless to argue about this. every exercise has a purpose. do what is best for your goals and limitations

[JohnPeter-bzfi]

Tom Platz got me motivated enough to talk to girls 😂😂

[kennethbryant]

It sounds like Tom Platz is talking about the folks who only leg press and dont squat at all.

[johnpaulcross]

Platz has a point but I’d say for 99% of gymgoers, you don’t have the same goals as him. Most important part of leg day is performing effective movements safely to failure.

[rosendogavilan]

For someone with extremely long femurs I spent years trying to improve my squat, only to end in injury and pain time and time and time again. Squats aren’t for everyone, you just gotta find exercises that work for YOU.

[mobilelegendsmemes]

I personally think Leg Presses and Leg Extensions really help people to still train their lower body if they have back injuries. I have lower back issues so I mostly progressive overload with Leg Presses and Extensions. For Squats, I take my time to increase the weight.

[DEUltra]

Squats are the best quad builder. I mean, unless your femurs are disproportionately long. Then they're lackluster as far as muscle growth. Or if your lower back is snapped up. Or if you like to train to absolute failure, and have no spotter. Or if your gym is extremely busy and all of the squat racks are taken. Or if your knees are shot out. Well dang, i guess there are several good reasons to use leg press instead of the squat.

[espenstoro]

Nothing is like squats... if you have the most advantageous build ever. For others, it's not viable to train them that hard, it'll kill their backs before their legs. Squat for strength and skill, then make up the big volume on the leg press.

[robertsnow]

Not all knees are created equal. We do what we can.

[dhanayparikh]

Why is Tom Platz literally talking and looking like Homelander?☠️💀

[PavelBarber]

People will say to listen to Platz because of his results/accomplishments, while simultaneously ignoring people who got results using leg press (and the scientific literature backing it up). It’s not one or the other. We don’t always have to turn everything into an “us VS. them” to feel superior. Pretty sad to see someone who has such a platform and accomplished so much use his voice to spread misinformation.

[justinli]

Exercise alternatives also exist because some people just can't do certain exercises due to injury or mobility problems.

For instance I could squat fine based on my lower body, but ever since shoulder surgery (judo injury) about 6 years ago I havent been able to put my right arm behind my head or mobilise my right trap upwards because the surgery needed to tie all of those things together to keep my shoulder in the socket. I literally can't reach far enough behind me to hold the back on my back, and for some reason hacksquat machines don't exist in my country...

[sherodbrown]

Emphasis on that lower back protection. I loved to squat but I can’t put as much work in as I want cause of lower back problems. I love the leg press and extension

[Moose]

I trained at Planet Fitness for a year during covid. I used the leg press instead of Smith machine squats (because I hadn't seen the truth yet), and I took my squat up by about 25lb. The leg press absolutely is a good movement!

[Nukacokacola]

Thanks Sean, I always have problems with others giving me flak over using a leg press. I like it, it's nice on my lower back, I can do calve raises with it and other foot placements.

[greentree]

Leg press funked up my patella tendon. Ironically my physiotherapist friend got me to do squats to reverse the injury over a year. Any time I try to go back to the leg press now after 2.5 years, I get the pain coming back 1 week later. I do heavy squats at the moment too, and all is good.