How to single leg press with perfect form so you can build stronger quads, glutes, and fix muscle imbalances.
In this video, we break down the single leg press exercise step-by-step, including setup, foot placement, and the most important form cues to maximize results and stay injury-free.
If you’ve been doing the leg press but not seeing results, chances are you’re missing these key details.
🔑 Key Single Leg Press Form Cues:
This is perfect for beginners and advanced lifters looking to:
Fix left to right leg imbalances Increase quad and glute activation Improve leg press strength Reduce injury risk Build bigger, stronger legs
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What's going on everyone it is your form expert coach Kyle and today I'm going to show you how
to do a single leg leg press. Now for the sake of this video I'm going to use this machine which is
absolutely fantastic. You can do the one where you're more upright I just find you don't get
as much out of that exercise specifically in that machine. So what you're going to do here
is you're going to start by setting up properly. Most important thing here is keep your back flat
at all times. I'm telling you when I say this I should not be able to slip my hand underneath
here. If so you could get injured and it is not worth it. From here I'm going to get nice and
tight. I'm going to lift both of my feet up. Now the reason I do that is to make sure that I can
set up properly and make sure everything's where it should be as you can see on the screen here.
Now from there I'm going to take one foot away. I've got my foot positioned. I've got my knee
pointed outward slightly not caved in. That's a very common mistake within the leg press.
From here a really important thing is to make sure that your foot is around the middle.
If you have really long legs you absolutely can put them higher that is okay. Really avoid making
sure your foot's super low because when it's super low it's just going to be very hard to get a full
range of motion and you end up doing half reps. From here I've got my leg set up right in the
middle just like this. I'm going to press up. I'm going to release the handles here so I can get a
range of motion and now start the exercise keeping my back nice and flat. What I like to do instead
of hold on to the levers is I like to just have my hands around my chest so that way I don't use
any momentum. From here just bring your knee all the way down as far as you can go nice and
comfortable to the point where your back is still nice and flat and to the point where you're getting
a full range of motion. Ideally what I try to do is I try to bring my knee as close as I can
towards my chest and then bring it all the way up. A very important thing to remember is for this
exercise when you get to the top you don't want to fully lock out your knee because that's just
going to bring a lot of pain a lot of discomfort and it's just not worth it. So bring it down all
the way just like this press all the way up and then once complete what you can do is just
essentially set up your other foot release the other one here and then just do the exact same
thing on that side. It's a very simple exercise it's great for the isolation and then once
complete if I have really heavy weight I'll put both legs up here just to make sure everything's
secure. Lock it in place and that's exactly how you do a single leg leg press. Now obviously if
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