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Leg Extensions Blow
Now I'd like to take a few minutes and rip on a common piece of leg-training apparatus, the standard leg extension machine. What a hunk of crap, huh? Unless you're recovering from a very long period of bed rest, jettison the leg extension from your routine. I guess it's also OK to use it to warm up the knees and muscles. But the truth is, not much muscle has ever been built — nor strength developed — from performing the movement.

In fact, I'd suggest quite confidently that more knees have been wrecked or aggravated by its use and misuse than any other lower-body exercise. So to all those who claim squats hurt their knees: It's most likely those full-stack knee extensions you yank up, Chuck. Not your quarter-depth 185-pound squats, you wuss.
 
Im doing leg extensions..They build the lower portion of the leg if done right. of course Im doing it for weak point training so Leg extensions do have there perks
 
I mean maybe do it for eight weeks of leg extenions than replace them with whatever exercise you want your legs to look like. Am I making sense?
 
Don't be a Partial-Reppin' Bozo!
This laziness has gotta stop, people. It's gotten so bad that quarter-inch depth on leg presses and squats are the new craze with the kids; little ****s who have grown up cutting corners on hard work. I guess doing half-rep bench presses wasn't lazy enough.

Look, take your squats down below parallel (keep going, tough guy, you're not there yet) and bring your knees to at least your chest when you leg press. You can go even lower with your toes slightly flared so your knees will come out to the sides.

The half-rep phenomenon usually has something to do with ego. That is, the trainee is afraid his fragile little self-image will be bruised if people see him using the kind of weight he'd have to use if he actually performed full repetitions. It's a vicious circle of stupidity and weakness, however, because without full repetitions the lifter won't ever develop impressive strength.

Deep reps considerably lessen the resistance you can use but produce 20 times the pump and go a long way in helping to actually build some muscle. What's that you say? You say your joints can't take it? Oh, jeez. If that were true, you'd be hesitant to unlock your knees with the 15 plates per side you use every week on the leg press.

*Do some of you hear the excuses coming out of your mouth? They might as well be coming out of somewhere else.

*Reminds me of Easy 'Laugh Out Loud'
 
I would like to try an experiment with you non-gold members, and see what the craziest ads we can get to come up on a page is
 
EasyEJL said:
I would like to try an experiment with you non-gold members, and see what the craziest ads we can get to come up on a page is
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OOOOOHHH so crazy. Glad I am GOLD :fool2:

And what do you mean "...and see what the craziest ads we can get to come up on a page is"

What control do you have over what Ads appear?
 
xjsynx said:
OOOOOHHH so crazy. Glad I am GOLD :fool2:

And what do you mean "...and see what the craziest ads we can get to come up on a page is"

What control do you have over what Ads appear?
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the ads are partially based on content of the page:)so a page with lots of conversations about tampons would show tampon ads.
 
xjsynx said:
Leg Extensions Blow
Now I'd like to take a few minutes and rip on a common piece of leg-training apparatus, the standard leg extension machine. What a hunk of crap, huh? Unless you're recovering from a very long period of bed rest, jettison the leg extension from your routine. I guess it's also OK to use it to warm up the knees and muscles. But the truth is, not much muscle has ever been built — nor strength developed — from performing the movement.

In fact, I'd suggest quite confidently that more knees have been wrecked or aggravated by its use and misuse than any other lower-body exercise. So to all those who claim squats hurt their knees: It's most likely those full-stack knee extensions you yank up, Chuck. Not your quarter-depth 185-pound squats, you wuss.
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VERY :goodpost:
 
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