When did you realise that high rep leg press, hack squats and extensions are far superior to fee weight squats if your goal is hypertrophy?
When did you realise that high rep leg press, hack squats and extensions are far superior to fee weight squats if your goal is hypertrophy?
Day 1. Never did barbell squats. Not a powershitter.
I don't understand this question, everyone knows that low reps are for strength and high reps are for hypertrophy, if you don't know this a quick Google search tells you that much.
Post legs
a couple of years ago
Anything works when you're roiding
Natty cope
Not a cope at all
No natty has gotten big legs by solely doing machine work
except the ones that have. people have been getting swole since long before roids were a thing
Isn’t…that the reason you roid? Because it’s easier? Where’s the cope?
How about pistol squats?
It's fine for developing leg definition and if you have the flexibility to do it (not a lot of people can). But if you want leg mass, bodyweight leg exercises in general are bad for it and you need machines/barbells to get it.
Split squats are superior, because on a pistol squat you round up your lower back to balance yourself more easily, this makes the activation in the glutes lower and on split squats you actually able to use your glutes effectively.
Regardless if your goal is strength or hypertrophy or some functional strength meme, split squats are better.
enjoy destroying your knees
I honestly quit squatting and I could care less
Yes. Sissy sqauats also good too
Tom Platz would beat the shit out of every one of you
The exception is people like him with tiny legs who can squat up and down with a high back angle.
Not many people are built like that.
Unironically low weight high rep leg extensions have made my quads blow up even though IST thinks it'll explode your knees.
What is "high rep"?
>isolations are more suited to hypertrophy than compounds
thanks for the revelation you fucking retard
2 of the 3 movements OP mentioned are compound movements
skipping leg day and just not wearing shorts in public is the superior choice for looking big
>r/bodybuilding
I did the rippletits routine for my first 8 months and my legs grew to 24.5 inches. While losing weight. I think you just have loser genetics. I still do a big 3 focused routine and gained another 1+ inch to my legs. Kek aesthetic cucks getting cucked so hard by their vagina mentality.
High rep for legs is great even if you're not lifting weights. Couple years back I injured my leg and for a year or so all I could do was bodyweight leg work like squats and lunges and as my rep count increased so did the size of my legs. By the end of the year none of my old pants fit me anymore and I was training legs 5 days a week doing more than 500 reps every session
>lunges
Such a great fuckig exercise
Girls don't like quads like this
>doing it for anyone but yourself
>implying I don't lift for Hitler
Wow shocking that replacing a compound lift that uses almost your entire body besides your arms vs an isolation exercise that only hits quads will make your quads grow more.
Amazing. People who do squats would mog this guy in actual athletic performance
Hack squats are compound movements
Leg press is compound movement
>not freeweight, requires no full body stabilization
>actual athletic performance
lmao fucking NERD
who gives a fuck about "actual athletic performance"
Athletes you stupid fucking virgin
There's a reason people who participate in actual sports squat while mirror-masturbating incels leg press
>t. mad at leg press chads for mogging you with their massive legs
>leg press "chads"
>massive legs
Everyone I've ever seen irl leg pressing was fat or dyel
hack squats are the way. leg press is stupid
>thread about leg size
>21 replies discussing it seriously
You gays seem to have forgotten what type of business we’re in
Good, one less person hogging a squat rack
I switched over to doing hack squats after I got tired of waiting for people to vacate the squat racks. The benefits of the hack squats is that you're not limited by your back, which allows you to train the legs harder. However, the only down side is the lower back becomes untrained so usually I do hack squats and RDLs together on leg day.
I do
Why do barbell back squats filter so many people? I've never seen an exercise create so much seethe
I'd say deadlifts do that more
It's because they're retarded pussies who don't even approach depth then cry about how squatting doesn't work for them and then they resort to cope exercises
There is literally no reason to do heavy squats multiple times a week for most people. Stop falling for SS propaganda before it's too late.
it's bullshit, but I believe it.
The guy with the most developed legs at my gym is a Hack-Squat Machine autist, never seen him do a Barbell Squat, but always see him on the Hack-Squat
didn't drop squats, but dropped low reps. high reps is key for hypertrophy, doesn't matter the exercise. I'd say exercise is very personal and you have to find what works for you, but again, high reps are non-negotiable.
(also, I highly recommend trying some high rep deadlifts, just saying, a month or 2 trying would hurt you)
hack squat is better than squats if you only care about size. leg press isn't. i don't have a hacksquat and have only done leg presses for a few months because my hip was messed up and squats were irritating it. even doing 10 pps x10 and 7 pps x18 in the hardest way possible (seat inclined all the way, feet on bottom of platform and full rom) my quads have shrunk compared to when i could highbar 405.
I just want stronger legs, not bigger, which exercise is better then?
resistance bands
Is not the exercise is how you do them.
Any exercise is fine if you do them heavy enough to be on a low rep range.
Squats and deadlifts are king for strength exercises. After that, it's all about figuring out what your limiting factors are and strengthening them. Hamstrings and forearms are common failure points for deadlifts. Core is a common failure point for squats
A year into it, reddit sure love the squat but I started making progress after dropping it for hack squats
The same day I realized that five sets of five just ain't enough
You realized that strength training wasn't good for hypertrophy? Whoa big brain right here.
>builds leg strength and work capacity doing squats
>switches to isolations that would be impossible to be strong at without having done squats
>legs grow from being isolated at a new level of intensity
wow
I wish my gym had a hack squat machine so I can finally drop barbell squats
I didn’t because the men with the biggest thighs in the world swear by squatting. You are a gay cuck
If only someone had told Tom Platz.
This thread will decide if I buy a leg press/hack squat machine for my homegym tomorrow.
Is it worth it ?
when squats raped my elbows and lower back to the point where I had to stop
I wish I had stopped a decade ago
okay but doing 20 rep squats 3x a week put half an inch on my quads in a month, and not as a novice either