Leg Press

What it is

This machine-based exercise strengthens your lower body. It primarily targets your quadriceps, while also engaging your glutes, hamstrings, and calves. You push a weighted platform away from you with your legs.

Technique tips

• Don't lock your knees at the top of the movement.
• Lower the platform until your knees reach a 90-degree bend.
• Drive through your heels to activate your quadriceps effectively.
• Inhale as you lower the weight and exhale as you press it up.
• Keep your lower back pressed firmly against the seat.

How to track your progress

Log the weight and reps of each set. Straddly turns every set into an estimated one-rep max, so a heavier single and a strong set of eight both count as progress, and it flags a personal record the moment you beat your best.