How to Use The Seated Leg Press Machine

What is going on? It is Coach Kyle, your coach and form expert, and I'm going to show you today how to do the seated leg press machine. Typically, there's just one adjustment point that's going to look like this where you can bring it all the way down or all the way up. You want to avoid having it super high up because this is going to be so hard to get a full range of motion. Truthfully, I try to bring it as low as I can to the point where when I set up, It's kind of uncomfortable like I have to crunch in here because that's what gives me the best range of motion. Now from here the first rep will always be the hardest and once you get into this position then you're good to go and you can begin officially. Now you're going to want to make sure your knees are slightly pointed outwards as well as your feet to make sure your knees don't cave in when doing this and from here keep your back nice and flat against the pad. You can hold on to Hold on to the handles. You can cross your arms like this, whatever works. And from here, you're just going to make sure to keep your heels down and bring it down to the point where you go all the way down before your back starts to round or before the weight stack starts to hit. And then you're going to just press all the way up to the point where you have a small, gentle lockout of the knees and you're not overly extending like this and just putting a bunch of unnecessary strain on your knees. So once again, core nice and tight. Bring it all the way down. Just like this to about 90 degree angle and press all the way back up. You want to make sure you're getting nice control, doing a nice eccentric on the way down. I'd say about two seconds and really just make sure everything is planted. You want to be one solid unit. You want your heels down. You want your feet down. You want your back nice and flat. You want everything just nice and tight within this exercise so that way you can be as strong as physically possible when doing this seated leg press machine. So that's all I have for you today. I really hope you enjoyed it, but I also have one bonus and it's completely free that you're absolutely going to love. I put a lot of time and effort into my free form guide that I should be charging for. First link down below. Make sure to go grab that. It is completely free and it's going to show you how to do every single exercise in the gym properly. Make sure to go grab that and smash the like button. We'll see you in the next video. Peace out.