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- From: TAC@ysub.ysu.edu (Troy Allen Cross)
- Subject: Re: Leg Press
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:03:10 GMT
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- In article <-yn3syl@rpi.edu>
- cecchinr@gehrig.cs.rpi.edu (Ron Cecchini) writes:
-
- >
- >As for me, I usually start off with squats using a bodybuilder's stance
- >(i.e. feet slightly less than shoulder width, toes out slightly). My
- >next movement is usually presses, with my feet touching and placed high up
- >on the platform. With such a close stance, you shift much of the stress to the
- >outer quad (vastus something-or-other). Of course, you don't have to do these
- >this way, you have to ascess your own situation.
- >
- >After this, its 3 sets of hacks for the old teardrop (my seriously lagging
- >leg part, sigh..) and then 3 sets of extensions.
- >
- If the teardrop is your seriously lagging leg part, why do you wait to
- your third leg exercise to work it. Wouldn't it make more sense to work
- it first while it is fresh? Just curious.
-
- Troy
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