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2002/04/09, 06:55 AM
I'm in the 3rd week of the progressive program. I've been cheating my legs to this point and only doing some of the exercises because my equipment is rather limited. I hadn't felt guilty about skipping these until this morning, and when I printed out today's workout and noticed leg presses were on it again, I felt guilty. I can adapt my equipment to do extensions and curls, I can do squats and lunges, but I can't figure out the presses -- don't laugh, but I'm using one of those Gold Gym-Home Trainers for right now (I don't have the space or money for a better home gym and I don't have the courage to go to a gym yet). Any suggestions.
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2002/04/09, 09:32 AM
You can probably substitute a free weight exercise from the muscle targeting section of the site (in thighs & glutes page 3) If you didn't want to use leg extensions for your quads I would probably use front squats instead since those usually hit the quads pretty good and should be easy enough to do if you can do squats on your machine then all you have to do is hold the bar or whatever it is you use for a squat along the front of your chest (with your shoulders out.. look at the pictures of george doing it) and squat... i GUESS this would be pretty close for a leg press.. but its hard to just replace a machine with just freeweights...
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2002/04/09, 09:48 AM
For anyone else responding to this post.. I found a picture of that gold gym that lt is talking about.. hope its the same thing.. http://www.drcca.com/tvproducts/images/goldgym1.jpg .. not sure how you could really do squats on that.. seems like a crazy little thing.. probably should of bought some freeweights instead of that that =P..
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2002/04/09, 10:40 AM
You can definitely substitute certain exercises. You can stick with the basic variations of squats as they are compound exercises that have been proven to work. To work the hams, leg curls should do the trick.
Good luck...
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**_Robert_**
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2002/04/10, 02:41 AM
I got another nice idea to work your legs differently (and easy!); what about getting (or building up) a tall step (at least 18 inches), take some dumbells in your hands (not too heavy in the beginning 'cause it's harder than you imagine!) climb the step and do three sets of 10 reps on each leg.
Pheeew, you'll get a nice work out with this one trust me.
Try it and tell me what you think!
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- Nina :o) La vie est toujours aussi belle.....
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2002/04/10, 06:11 AM
Thanks for the ideas!
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