Optimizing Machine Setup for Results

But then that also necessitates they understand how to set the leg press, not just the feet, but set the back pad to be able to go far. Because here's another prime example of my gym. We have two leg presses. One of the leg presses has an adjustable back plate. Every dude that comes in there will put the back plate all the way up. If you put the back plate all the way up, you don't have any range of motion because you're already hinged. Let me see if I can do this. Let's say This is my leg press, and I've got the back all the way up. There's no room for me to move my femur. The only thing I could do, I could go out here and try to go back there. Now, if I laid the bench back, now I have all this room. So people need to pay a lot of attention to how they're actually setting up the machine before they get on the machine. if you have the ability to adjust the back up and down, put it all the way down as far down as it go because that open up your hip and allow you to move in to a really good amount of hip flexion which means great Now I can get my glutes in the mix but if I sitting upright my glutes aren't in a position to actually do anything. It's all quad. And I also don't have a lot of room to move the joint. The bones have to move around each other. So if I start to come back and I get a pinch in the front of my hip, or I just can't move it that far, there's no space for you to go, you need, you're going to have to set yourself back up on that squat or that leg press, or you may have to rearrange the mechanics of the leg press so that it's actually set up to work the muscles you're looking for.