Don’t Squats and Leg Presses Work the Same Muscles?
Question: This may be a dumb question, but don’t leg presses cover the same muscles exercised by doing squats? They seem to be the essentially same motion to me.
Answer: You are correct in that squats and leg presses do stimulate approximately the same muscles.
However, squats utilize more muscles because of the stabilization required. For example, [...]
Improve Your Chest in Just 8 Weeks with This Proven Routine!
Here’s the exact routine that I recently used with one of my clients to help him bring up his chest more in 8 weeks than in the previous 8 months. Enjoy this proven chest building routine.
Bigger Muscles, Shorter Workouts: my latest article at T-Nation
My latest article is live at T-Nation.
I have to say, I think it’s a really good training article. It goes over what I’ve found to be the single best training style… if I had to pick just one.
The article is called “Bigger Muscles, Shorter Workouts” – go check it out.
How long to rest between sets
Question: I was wondering how long do you typically rest between sets when training for growth? I usually do around 60-90 seconds.
Thanks for your time. (received via bb.com forum)
Answer: On an exercise that’s more compound in nature
Help, my elbow hurts!
Question: I have been weight-training for the past 7 years….I recently started doing weight training after 6 months gap.. and hurt my right elbow joint while doing heavy lying triceps extension (I should not have gone for heavy,blunder!!).
Almost 6 weeks are over now and no relief. Doctor told me it’s bursitis and will go away. [...]
