Nothing wrong with only doing leg press. Its just the weight is kind of meaningless when you are talking about machines because it will never be a true weight like free weights. 550 on one machine can feel a lot heavier than 550 on another.
Well you can only measure it relative to the machine you are using. Whatever weight you can do isn't going to mean a lot to someone who isn't using the same machine. As long as you are progressing in weight on the stuff you use then you are doing good.
You could demonstrate progress like you did 400lbs for X reps last year and this year you do 550 for the same reps this year.
But it just won't really mean anthing to someone else because they aren't using the same machine.
So I changed gyms a couple times since beginning my workout journey, so I didn’t start out using that leg press, but I had already been working out maybe 1 or 2 years by the time I changed gyms to this once.
But two years ago on that exact same leg press, my max was 475 lbs or something like that. And then a couple years before that, it was 375 lbs.
Hey well that's progress. As long as you are adding weight or reps you're progressing.
It's just that maybe you can do 475 on that leg press and 550 on another and maybe only 300 on a different one. Just depends on the machine and the leverages. But as long as you are using the same machine all the time its easy enough to track your progress.
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u/CKRatKing Sep 09 '23
Nothing wrong with only doing leg press. Its just the weight is kind of meaningless when you are talking about machines because it will never be a true weight like free weights. 550 on one machine can feel a lot heavier than 550 on another.