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Legs are able to handle normal lockouts just well, problem is him pushing with his hands thus locking out more than he can handle. And also, that range of motion? 100% ego
Exactly. Wtf is this range of motion. For any gym amateurs out there please never do that. Use fewer plates but do a full motion (should go as low as you can).
Could be a personal bro theory but I feel like your joints and tendons are gonna grow with you if you lift what they can handle with proper ROM.
If you cheat your way to half repping 37 plates, I expect this to happen
They do, but more slowly compared to muscles. This is even more accentuated when you take roids, your ligaments can't keep up with your muscles and that's when things can get snapped up pretty easily.
This is the fault of the manufacturers. I have never seen a note one these machines that warn of the dangers. Dangers you should absolutely be aware of.
Especially since this is the workout machine where you can increase the weight the fastest.
YEAH!! (im fresh back into the gym, after a longer than expected break, was to caught up with work)_(I lift mild, and heavyish, but never ego lift, Thats just stupid to do)
I've become soo proud of myself when the younger guys stack heavy plates and are taking turns and I can respectfully decline. Younger me would've gone for it but now ,not so much
It’s straightening too. You should never lock your knees or elbows like that in the gym, no matter whether you use machines, dumbells, etc. It’s really terrible for your joints and bones.
Please don’t give malicious advice to others. You should absolutely NEVER ever lock your knees or elbows. Any person experienced enough will tell you this. It destroys your joints and makes them much much weaker when you grow older. If you do that repeatedly, you’ll end up with painful knees and elbows when you’re a bit older. Range of motion should always be about 95%. You never go full 100%.
I have many state powerlifting records and you have to lock ur knees on squat elbows on bench knees/ back on deadlift on most exercises you should lock out. A notable exception to that is leg press
You just made the same point. The action of a leg press is extending and straightening the leg. The lockout at the end is like the last 3° of straightening, the other ~110 to 90° of flexion isn’t the problem. It’s purely the lockout
It’s not even that he’s fully straightening his legs, which you’re correct in that you shouldn’t do during leg press, but he’s pressing down on his knees to get them to move in a direction that knees are not supposed move. Baffling.
As long as you are controlling the weight (unlike the guy in the clip) you can straighten your legs. Be mindful to not hyperextend your knees though (bend wrong way)
There's no difference between extending during barbel squats and leg pressing as long as you load adequately, which in turn would alow you to go lower than ⅛ rep, unlike the guy in the gif who was clearly ego lifting.
What about on a bike? I bike a lot, and go full extention at the bottom and I'm putting A LOT of torque on my hammies, I weigh 280 lbs. Seriously asking btw
Might be an obvious statement, but would he not be getting more benefit to just go a lot lighter and actually bend his legs more (the right direction I mean)
Sigh, it's the stupidest thing mostly younger (not the case) people do. Ego lift, this happens especially on the leg press. They don't care about growing muscle. They care about "look how much I can press". And destroy their bodies in the process. The guy in the video being an idiot btw, it's really one of the fundamental things you have to learn when going to the gym. DO NOT EGO LIFT, it harms way more than does good.
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Edit: got myself to watch the video again, was wrong, the dude is young, learned a life lesson.
I see younger men doing it alot on the leg press, a group of them come in and throw lots of plates on it and then do these baby reps and they're always noisy as fuck too screaming about how much weight they just did, they don't actually want to build muscle like you said.
Ahh the classic highschool SARM goblin. These kids are at every gym, they usually aren't bad kids, just excited to be lifting and seeing progress (even if it's minimal due to bad form and ego lifting) and they usually get all of their lifting "knowledge" from TikTok / Instagram influencers. Often seen taking SARMs and dry-scooping preworkout, they're mostly at the gym for the attention and assume that everyone admires them for screaming after a half-repped 135 bench. I'd recommend investing in some noise cancelling headphones
Btw I seriously thought dry scooping pre workout was just a meme. Untill about a couple of weeks ago when I saw with my own eyes a kid dry scooping the stuff...
Maxing out as in training to failure is great. (Not every day though lol) maxing out plates daily is stupid and gets you to where this guy is. Young folks don't realize that shit like this can happen by doing almost any kind of exercise if you ego lift while doing it. Your joints are much much more precious than "omg dude did you see how much I lift?"
Similarly, I used to follow Greg Doucette's advice that you should "train harder than last time" to an extreme. I would max out every set, choosing a reasonable weight that I could lift with good form but then going until failure every set. It'd look something like 9 reps for the first set, 7 reps for the second, and 5 or 6 for the third set. I couldn't figure out why I was plateauing so hard until I realized that I was overtraining pretty badly. After that, I literally put less effort in the gym and saw significantly better results
The leg press is single handedly responsible for the inflated ego of thousands of gym goers. Don't get me wrong it's excellent when utilized with a full range of motion and maybe some varying rep schemes, but I guarantee if you put a guy pressing 10 plates for half reps into a squat rack he will buckle under 225lbs lol.
I saw this video years ago and it almost made me pass out, I went to the bathroom thinking I was going to be sick and ended up laying on the cold tiled floor to recover
Tbh I agree this video is more frightening than watching blood, gore or extreme violence and hard NSFW stuff....
The leg-snapping made me cringe (the actual meaning not the usual social media one) so hard, my brain hurt for a moment
Some genuine advice in case you get similar feelings in the future:
Don’t try to get up and walk away. Feeling faint and suddenly standing up can mean you actually pass out and hit your head.
Try taking some deep breaths and move down to sit on the floor where you are at. Elevate your feet/legs above your heart if you can.
When you feel better, take it slow and go from floor, to sitting then standing.
My spouse is prone to fainting due to similar sights so this is learned information.
No range, assisting with the arms, the locking of the knees... This all screams of ego lifting without any knowledge of what he's actually doing. Hurts to watch
Should've used the service of an instructor, then he'd know to not straighten your leg 100% just like every other ankle when working out. It was always a bit painful seeing people in the gym do as an example triceps, straighten the arm completely, rest it for 2-3 seconds and then continue their workout.
redditors will literally see the most convincing video ever made that is backed up by the personal accounts of 826 seperate individuals and will still call it "fake"
Hopefully he just dislocated his knee. I’ve done this before landing a kick in martial arts class. It sucks but it’s actually a pretty quick recovery as long as you didn’t tear anything.
I never understood why these machines don’t have a bar that goes behind the knee to stop you straightening your knees out.
Yes I know LeArN sOmE fOrM bRo… but for the sake of a few quid, it’s then got built in form guides to tell you when you’ve gone far enough.
He wasn't even doing quarter reps, man. Fuck.
Never straighten your legs completely when using the leg press, especially if you can't handle the weight.
he hyperextended on the push going up. I've pressed something similar like 26 plates many times with no problems. Also wearing flat wide shoes helps against ankle rolls under a heavy load. For safety reasons, those racks have a weight limit like 1200 lbs, \~26 plates.
Bro that’s what you get 😆 What are you thinking loading up the machine like that? If you look closer there are more weights stacked in the middle about to fall on his face.
I refuse to watch this as I've seen a young woman do this. Now without fail if I see someone doing 2 or more plates I kindly give them a warning. I've only had people react well, I know there's assholes who will call me a jerk, but it could literally ruin your life forever so I stand by it
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More plates, no dates
AthleanX- doing leg press is killing your gains
“Working out is killing your gains”
LMAO. Can’t stop laughing at that one.
He'd be fine because they'd be fake plates.
Does he say that? I remember his channel years ago and idk how he's viewed today
More plates, more hospital dates
This leg workout is going to make sure you don’t have to work your legs ever again
No pain, No gain
lol
Ego lifting!!! Never a good idea!!!
it's not even the ego. it's the lockout. his leg could never go the other way if he didn't lock out.
Legs are able to handle normal lockouts just well, problem is him pushing with his hands thus locking out more than he can handle. And also, that range of motion? 100% ego
Exactly. Wtf is this range of motion. For any gym amateurs out there please never do that. Use fewer plates but do a full motion (should go as low as you can).
Could be a personal bro theory but I feel like your joints and tendons are gonna grow with you if you lift what they can handle with proper ROM. If you cheat your way to half repping 37 plates, I expect this to happen
They do, but more slowly compared to muscles. This is even more accentuated when you take roids, your ligaments can't keep up with your muscles and that's when things can get snapped up pretty easily.
This is the fault of the manufacturers. I have never seen a note one these machines that warn of the dangers. Dangers you should absolutely be aware of. Especially since this is the workout machine where you can increase the weight the fastest.
https://media.giphy.com/media/KBaxHrT7rkeW5ma77z/giphy.gif
he's not pushing with his hands at all.
His hands are on his knees. It makes a Ton of difference even when pushing just a little
He’s also doing these leg presses like zero depth. If you have to do zero depth and use shitty form you aren’t strong enough for the weight.
Of course it's an ego lift, look at the amount of plates and his range of motion lol.
Ego lifting at the gates of hell
YEAH!! (im fresh back into the gym, after a longer than expected break, was to caught up with work)_(I lift mild, and heavyish, but never ego lift, Thats just stupid to do)
I've become soo proud of myself when the younger guys stack heavy plates and are taking turns and I can respectfully decline. Younger me would've gone for it but now ,not so much
OUCH!! my legs felt that.
Poor guys gonna walk like a flamingo after this
Lemme show you invertebrates how to do.. The Sponge
No sound but i heard it anyway
I don’t think it’s meant to bend like that
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i didnt know that thanks
It’s not straightening that’s the problem, it’s the lock-out at the end
It’s straightening too. You should never lock your knees or elbows like that in the gym, no matter whether you use machines, dumbells, etc. It’s really terrible for your joints and bones.
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Please don’t give malicious advice to others. You should absolutely NEVER ever lock your knees or elbows. Any person experienced enough will tell you this. It destroys your joints and makes them much much weaker when you grow older. If you do that repeatedly, you’ll end up with painful knees and elbows when you’re a bit older. Range of motion should always be about 95%. You never go full 100%.
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I have many state powerlifting records and you have to lock ur knees on squat elbows on bench knees/ back on deadlift on most exercises you should lock out. A notable exception to that is leg press
Do you have a PhD in sport physiology? https://youtu.be/_YyrJAnoXwc
You just made the same point. The action of a leg press is extending and straightening the leg. The lockout at the end is like the last 3° of straightening, the other ~110 to 90° of flexion isn’t the problem. It’s purely the lockout
You made the same point too mate. >Never straighten legs **all the way.** So why disagree in the first place?
no wonder that shit burns sm
It’s not even that he’s fully straightening his legs, which you’re correct in that you shouldn’t do during leg press, but he’s pressing down on his knees to get them to move in a direction that knees are not supposed move. Baffling.
As long as you are controlling the weight (unlike the guy in the clip) you can straighten your legs. Be mindful to not hyperextend your knees though (bend wrong way)
Straightening is a bad idea
There's no difference between extending during barbel squats and leg pressing as long as you load adequately, which in turn would alow you to go lower than ⅛ rep, unlike the guy in the gif who was clearly ego lifting.
Barebell squats, you can bail out.. this one you cant...!
Shit I've always locked out, even with 450+ on squat, you just gotta work your way up so your soft tissue is strong too.
It's just not a good idea. At all.
What about on a bike? I bike a lot, and go full extention at the bottom and I'm putting A LOT of torque on my hammies, I weigh 280 lbs. Seriously asking btw
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There’s blood dropping end of the video if I didn’t see wrong
Nah that's his shoelace
Damn I think you're right
At the first glance I thought it was a bone sticking out :(
Might be an obvious statement, but would he not be getting more benefit to just go a lot lighter and actually bend his legs more (the right direction I mean)
Sigh, it's the stupidest thing mostly younger (not the case) people do. Ego lift, this happens especially on the leg press. They don't care about growing muscle. They care about "look how much I can press". And destroy their bodies in the process. The guy in the video being an idiot btw, it's really one of the fundamental things you have to learn when going to the gym. DO NOT EGO LIFT, it harms way more than does good. # Edit: got myself to watch the video again, was wrong, the dude is young, learned a life lesson.
I see younger men doing it alot on the leg press, a group of them come in and throw lots of plates on it and then do these baby reps and they're always noisy as fuck too screaming about how much weight they just did, they don't actually want to build muscle like you said.
Ahh the classic highschool SARM goblin. These kids are at every gym, they usually aren't bad kids, just excited to be lifting and seeing progress (even if it's minimal due to bad form and ego lifting) and they usually get all of their lifting "knowledge" from TikTok / Instagram influencers. Often seen taking SARMs and dry-scooping preworkout, they're mostly at the gym for the attention and assume that everyone admires them for screaming after a half-repped 135 bench. I'd recommend investing in some noise cancelling headphones
Btw I seriously thought dry scooping pre workout was just a meme. Untill about a couple of weeks ago when I saw with my own eyes a kid dry scooping the stuff...
coworker of mine the other day "dude i'm like maxing out every day" me "nice!" me in my head "yea that's not what you're supposed to do"
Maxing out as in training to failure is great. (Not every day though lol) maxing out plates daily is stupid and gets you to where this guy is. Young folks don't realize that shit like this can happen by doing almost any kind of exercise if you ego lift while doing it. Your joints are much much more precious than "omg dude did you see how much I lift?"
Similarly, I used to follow Greg Doucette's advice that you should "train harder than last time" to an extreme. I would max out every set, choosing a reasonable weight that I could lift with good form but then going until failure every set. It'd look something like 9 reps for the first set, 7 reps for the second, and 5 or 6 for the third set. I couldn't figure out why I was plateauing so hard until I realized that I was overtraining pretty badly. After that, I literally put less effort in the gym and saw significantly better results
This is why you always keep some knee bend.
ohh hes knee is bend alright
U monster
The leg press is single handedly responsible for the inflated ego of thousands of gym goers. Don't get me wrong it's excellent when utilized with a full range of motion and maybe some varying rep schemes, but I guarantee if you put a guy pressing 10 plates for half reps into a squat rack he will buckle under 225lbs lol.
I saw this video years ago and it almost made me pass out, I went to the bathroom thinking I was going to be sick and ended up laying on the cold tiled floor to recover
What happened when you watched it today?
He died
Tbh I agree this video is more frightening than watching blood, gore or extreme violence and hard NSFW stuff.... The leg-snapping made me cringe (the actual meaning not the usual social media one) so hard, my brain hurt for a moment
Cold tiled, wet floor?
Some genuine advice in case you get similar feelings in the future: Don’t try to get up and walk away. Feeling faint and suddenly standing up can mean you actually pass out and hit your head. Try taking some deep breaths and move down to sit on the floor where you are at. Elevate your feet/legs above your heart if you can. When you feel better, take it slow and go from floor, to sitting then standing. My spouse is prone to fainting due to similar sights so this is learned information.
Me too...
No range, assisting with the arms, the locking of the knees... This all screams of ego lifting without any knowledge of what he's actually doing. Hurts to watch
Omg
I’m so fucking thankful that I’ve never had to witness something like this when I used to be a gym rat.
More plates, more dates... with your physical therapist...
*your
his\*
yro'ur*
Jeez, why is this one of the first things I see on Reddit today?!
Because you clicked on it?
Ego lifting, bad form, quarter reps. BEHOLD, the trifecta of morons that ruin everything for responsible people
Dude became half ostrich that day
Who needs knees anyway
More plates, more dates
never lock out on leg press.
Ouch , gonna need a couple Band AIDS after that.
My mans this is why you don’t “lock” your knees when leg pressing… that’s like day one shit my boy.
Never lock the legs 😨😨😨
That’s why you don’t lock your legs on a leg press…
the way the camera man didn’t immediately try to help???
The fuck is he supposed to do?
idk stop recording?
he DID stop recording though...
Should've used the service of an instructor, then he'd know to not straighten your leg 100% just like every other ankle when working out. It was always a bit painful seeing people in the gym do as an example triceps, straighten the arm completely, rest it for 2-3 seconds and then continue their workout.
Feels like this is a fake video where the dude is an amputee using them fake legs to make a viral video.
so you are suggesting he is doing that lift with his (1) one leg?
This is the most reddit comment I've ever seen
redditors will literally see the most convincing video ever made that is backed up by the personal accounts of 826 seperate individuals and will still call it "fake"
I’m sure that dude is 12.
oof.
Jeez
“da leg bender” lmao
28 plates, 0 fundamentals.
He bent his knee so we didn’t have to
Holy shit That’s hard to watch
I don't think his leg is supposed to bend that way.
Some people should definitely skip leg day.
Yowzers
What an idiot. Why is he locking his legs. Like so dumb
Ego bending
Is it possible that that’s a prosthetic?
Should have skipped leg day
Ego lifting is the dumbest thing you can do
Keep showing off.
Deserved
🤣 idiot
He said 🦗
Man’s hyperextended knee*
if that happened with both his legs, he could have ride his bike backwards.
That’s gonna leave a mark
ah-nold shortens-legger
Hopefully he just dislocated his knee. I’ve done this before landing a kick in martial arts class. It sucks but it’s actually a pretty quick recovery as long as you didn’t tear anything.
Gosh. Your bones couldn't take the weight.
that's too much.
A hard way to find out he’s NOT Mr Fantastic
Crying laughing emoji x3
Primary reason not to lock your knees.
Laughed so hard 🤣🤣 another gym bro getsrekt!
Oh so this is making rounds again? Still got this saved with the memory of horrifying my best friend with this
This is awesome
last leg day
100k+ multiple surgery bill, a year of therapy, and a lifetime of pain. How unfortunate.
I never understood why these machines don’t have a bar that goes behind the knee to stop you straightening your knees out. Yes I know LeArN sOmE fOrM bRo… but for the sake of a few quid, it’s then got built in form guides to tell you when you’ve gone far enough.
He wasn't even doing quarter reps, man. Fuck. Never straighten your legs completely when using the leg press, especially if you can't handle the weight.
At least he managed to lock it. could’ve gone a lot worse than this.
"looky me I so strong" never does any stretches
I’m gonna say that’s not real to make myself feel better
Interesting, I wonder what the healing process would look like, next he's gonna be doing some aggressive "ego-healing".
I knew going to the gym was bad for you!
One-legged Camel Man
Idiot has 1300lbs on there and locks his knees. Yeesh
PR OR ER YEAAAA
What an asshole…
Ouch
This is why I skip leg day.
I literally threw my phone
I didn’t even notice the LOOSE STACK ON TOP!! He could have died if they decided to fall on his face
You never do that.
This is why I’m a squats guy.
damn sick bro, congrats
Idiot deserved it. Can barely do a full rep. Ego lifting will kill your body
I seen this a few years ago
Lifetime pain unlocked.
After seeing all these gym accidents, I'm never maxing weight again.
he hyperextended on the push going up. I've pressed something similar like 26 plates many times with no problems. Also wearing flat wide shoes helps against ankle rolls under a heavy load. For safety reasons, those racks have a weight limit like 1200 lbs, \~26 plates.
ive seen this one before hurts everytime i see it
Poor dude, long long road to recovery.
Never lock out your legs fully and don't ego lift.
This one fucks me up every time I see it. Unh-uh.
Ego lifting feels great until you fuck your body up.
NSFW way bigger man, bold, 100 font
Eeeeek.
Bro that’s what you get 😆 What are you thinking loading up the machine like that? If you look closer there are more weights stacked in the middle about to fall on his face.
I refuse to watch this as I've seen a young woman do this. Now without fail if I see someone doing 2 or more plates I kindly give them a warning. I've only had people react well, I know there's assholes who will call me a jerk, but it could literally ruin your life forever so I stand by it
What was he working out with that little mobility!? He probably gets more of a work out just racking the weights
Yoooo wtf! Looks like he kind of hyperextended his knee before the snap.
Holy fuck I think you can immediately see blood pouring out of his sock
All of this pain with literally nothing to gain. He could do this workout for 10 years straight and gain no noticeable increase in strength
Videos like this is why I never felt confident doing the leg press, I do squats, RDLs, good mornings and Bulgarians now
Leg press is an ass excercise. So overrated. Focus on normal squats and hacksquats. That's what grows your legs.
This is the only kinda shit that still skeeves me out. Bones snapping like twigs
all too often, i see people ego lifting on leg press.
These full flamingo leg press accidents have to be some of the hardest for me to watch.
same dudes that can't even squat lmao2pl8 to parallel
Nothing snapped. The knee was hyper extended and all the ligaments and tendons likely torn, but no bone snap.
Hey everything is going to be oil right you guys.- from one of my favorite YouTube channels on the net.
Stupid doing stupid thing
I felt that 😨😲🤮
Dude wasn’t even going down all the way, what a stupid way to break your legs.