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Leg press
Feet shoulder-width on the platform, lower until your knees are near 90 degrees without your lower back rounding off the pad. Press back up without locking your knees hard.
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How to do it
Feet shoulder-width on the platform, lower until your knees are near 90 degrees without your lower back rounding off the pad. Press back up without locking your knees hard.
Muscles worked
- quadsprimary
- glutes
- adductors
- hamstrings
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