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“In fact, I could show somebody oftentimes, I got knee pain. I'll put them on a leg extension, have them hold the thing up at the top. Almost immediately. And then they'll come down and be like, my knee feels a lot better. Yeah, it's, I like to look at it as like it's a really loud signal of stability.”
“Yes. So an isometric would be like, we'll use the knee as an example. I could get on a leg extension machine, bring the weight all the way up and then just hold it and really squeeze my quads or set so much weight on the stack that I can't lift it and push into the pad. And that's an isometric.”
“The plate is set, the track is set. I don't have to balance and worry about all these different things. And I can just push and move through a leg extension. Very easy to do in comparison to a free weight exercise. So for joint pain, machines are beautiful. And this is when I would use them.”
“my heels? Yeah. You don't hear me talk much about ... If my exercise favorites were the leg extension, you might hear me speak a little bit more like that, but anteriorly, I know I can shift the focus by positioning the body differently in space, but I don't have a lot of go-to specific, hey quads, I'm really focused on the quads here, because I don't do a lot of leg extensions.”
“trying to improve this clear weakness I have in my quads. I can't even leg extension my body weight. I have a significant problem there. So, maybe in your particular case, if I'm hammering you or you're hammering yourself in a squat exercise and you're wondering why your quads aren't getting any stronger or aren't growing in any size, it may be because of the style of the movement.”
“You can do an upper body strength test if you would like, although it's not technically something we do very often. One I'm generally more interested in is a leg extension test. And the reason I like this is a back squat is better. A barbell back squad is, look, that's my, like, that's my jam. That's my life, right? It's just very technically demanding.”
“And it's challenging. You need spotters. You need comfort. A lot goes into this. So for the average person, a leg extension test is fairly standardized. You don't have to worry about technique and people can just get into it and go. And so what you want to look for there is a couple of standards you want to hit.”
“It's hard to be in a bad position for that long at that load, as well as core strength and low back stability. It's more difficult than leg extension, but it's quite a bit more functional and it's going to give you insight into a lot more areas than just the quadriceps. So 45 seconds down at the bottom of the squat and then returning to a standing position.”
“So, adjust these accordingly. If you're not comfortable with the front squat, do the leg extension. If you're not even comfortable with that, do something different. So, we never want to utilize maximum testing if it's going to come with a consequence of serious acute injury.”
“And that is a tremendous barometer of muscular endurance. So if you were able to do 200 pounds on your leg extension test, put 75% on that and do that as many reps as you can. You want to look for more than eight repetitions. If you are below eight repetitions, then we have a muscular endurance problem.”
“So, this is a very common strategy we use. We do our one rep max leg extension, five minutes, seven minutes, whatever we need to do, come back, load it to 75%, do as many reps as you can. Boom. You could roll right into then your upper body test or your grip strength test or anything else that you want to do there.”
“long time. And that's really good for your knees. Sweet. Yeah, I mean, there's so many things. Like, I think even like leg extensions would probably be like a good little exercise for the knees. I mean, it's a pretty deliberate spot. I think, you know, like backpacking, I think like a controlled version of that, because there's a lot of times you're dropping down like pretty heavily, this and”
“and they'd followed them for seven years. And so these people were divided into quartiles based on muscle mass and strength. So separate analysis. So DEXA was used to quantify muscle mass, and I believe they use leg extension for quad strength. They might have used grip strength as well for upper body strength.”
“There are lots of exercises that could target the muscles that you might want to grow bigger. So whether you choose a squat or a deadlift or a leg extension, you know, it might not matter, just make sure to if you want your legs to grow, then do leg exercises and make sure you're getting the quality sets and reps and time under tension for those muscle groups. And really don't just”
“leg extension one day. And you know, every day do something, it seems maybe that's not the most efficient. But some people if that fits into your schedule, it seems to produce kind of a similar level of strength and gains to three or four, like longer duration sessions. So that could be another, time efficient way.”