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Opinons on a leg press machine im purchasing

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Fedor

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Hi as the title states im purchasing a leg press off a guy from another forum its a avanti strength series sg 7001 leg press and squat machine second hand roughly 3 years old with a few plates for $500 heres a link: Dynamic Insight Fitness - Avanti Strength Series - SG-7001 Leg press hack squat
Ive been looking around everywhere to see reviews and such but cant seem to find anything the owner tells me the model is about 5 years old or more. To my knowledge avanti is a reasonable brand? What are you're thoughts on this leg press and have any of you used this before feedback is appreciated.
 
may i ask what are you buying a leg press for?
shouldnt squats and deadlifts be enough to work legs??
(also i dont like the look of the way you would squat on it, almost as bad as a smith machine, but thats just my opinion)
 
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callan said:
may i ask what are you buying a leg press for?
shouldnt squats and deadlifts be enough to work legs??
(also i dont like the look of the way you would squat on it, almost as bad as a smith machine, but thats just my opinion)
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It's basically like a safety squat smith machine as far as bar placement etc goes

Personally I have found that anything which forces my ROM/knee tracking fucks my knee joints up something shocking (leg press, leg extensions, leg curls etc). Not sure if others have had similar problems/experiences
 
yea dudes including a weight tree some dumbells and about 200kg worth of olympic plates in 20's and 25's + the machine for $500 going to pick it up today.
 
The Hamburgler said:
Personally I have found that anything which forces my ROM/knee tracking fucks my knee joints up something shocking (leg press, leg extensions, leg curls etc). Not sure if others have had similar problems/experiences
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I agree 100%, I had almost a year off squatting and switched to squat machine, leg press and leg extensions and it was a nightmare on my knees, back squatting again now and my knees are thanking me for it!
 
Morgan said:
I agree 100%, I had almost a year off squatting and switched to squat machine, leg press and leg extensions and it was a nightmare on my knees, back squatting again now and my knees are thanking me for it!
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More often than not you need to find middle ground.
 
I tried the middle ground, my knees didn't like anything that forced a ROM to take a certain path.

It's history now, I'm squatting again like a pig in shit.
 
A combination of both over a period of many years, rather than just doing one or the other.

Is it me?
 
Generally it's you. What's so hard to comprehend? My knees like to be free, yours don't care either way.

Moving on.
 
Morgan said:
Generally it's you. What's so hard to comprehend? My knees like to be free, yours don't care either way.

Moving on.
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DO you have itb problems?

stretch and roll that mofo ... it is the cause of my knee grief..
 
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