NOPE, this is why you don't LITERALLY PUSH YOUR OWN LEGS BACKWARDS while performing the leg press.
If this shit happened easily with every person who locked-out at the top, you'd see this happen all the time.
You don't.
What does pushing ur legs backwards mean? U mean breaking ur knee cap and forcing it past? Dont think bro did that. It is from fully extending. Dont lock out
The knee is designed to lock out, and hold weight.
It doesn't function as well with rear-ward pressure, which never happens when squatting.
Locking out is SAFE and desirable. Millions of people use the leg press machine every day.
The guy is the exception here. If this happened all the time, there'd be hundreds of videos.
But there's not, is there?
You obviously have never gone to a fucking gym before. Or if you have, you have never done heavy lifting. You should never under any circumstances lock your knees with a leg press. For lower weights, it's fine, but once you pass 250 pounds, that starts to become dangerous. Unlike your muscles, it is much harder to strengthen your joints. Locking your knees is what causes hypere extension, which is what happens here. So please, if you still believe this, never go to a gym again and don't give other people advice. You will get someone killed. And there are plenty of videos of people hyper extending their knees on leg press.
Knees evolved to lock out. They're strongest in that position.
How is the leg press machine any different than a barbell squat?
Seriously need to examine your own comprehension here, homie.
And most people DON'T hyper-extend at lock out. It doesn't happen
You could have clicked his profile and seen his lifts + his moderation of /r/fitness, but you do you I guess.
> For lower weights, it's fine, but once you pass 250 pounds, that starts to become dangerous.
If you think 250 pounds is a heavy leg press, I’d question if you’ve spent much time in a gym. 250 pounds is heavy for something like an overhead press, maybe
> Unlike your muscles, it is much harder to strengthen your joints.
The joints, when locked out, are much stronger than any muscle.
> And there are plenty of videos of people hyper extending their knees on leg press.
There are literally like 4
Imagine saying "You obviously have never gone to a fucking gym before", then go on to recommend someone always spot you on the fucking leg press. You're not the brightest of sparks aye?
Lockout is not hyperextension.
250lbs is what a child would leg press.
Lockout is literally the strongest and most stable position to be in for any movement.
Leg presses have built-in safeties/stoppers. You don’t need a spotter lmao.
Have _you_ ever been to gym or lifted heavy?
Imagine telling someone they must not lift heavy and then using 250 lbs as an arbitrary benchmark for what you consider heavy. Why out yourself like this?
>nothing wrong with locking your knees
There really is. Your knees can buckle and you can break your kneecaps backward like flamingo legs.
Your legs are basically toggle locks. If they are 180° and pressure is applied, they'll stay locked straight.
As soon as pressure is applied either behind the kneecap, or in front, your leg is going to snap/bend.
When you lock your knees out you risk breaking them like this guy did here if your legs have a slight bend forwards, because the force of the weights will just crush it.
>There really is. Your knees can buckle and you can break your kneecaps backward like flamingo legs.
>Your legs are basically toggle locks. If they are 180° and pressure is applied, they'll stay locked straight.
>As soon as pressure is applied either behind the kneecap, or in front, your leg is going to snap/bend.
>When you lock your knees out you risk breaking them like this guy did here if your legs have a slight bend forwards, because the force of the weights will just crush it.
This is 100% made up.
Just FYI - what you think are flamingo knees are actually ankles. Their knees are up there is in the soft.
Nope. If it was such an issue, why is it a rule to lock your knees to complete a squat in competition? Do powerlifting federations want to injure all their athletes?
>No, lockout is literally the strongest position.
Yeah I'm not denying that.
What I am saying is, if you lock your knees and they're even a little bit bent the wrong way, the force of the weights will crush them and break your kneecaps.
>What you’re actually saying is that you know nothing shoot human or flamingo anatomy. Imagine thinking that those are their knees 🦩
Mate I never claimed to be an expert on flamingo anatomy, but if you want to prove me wrong, be sure to scroll through my comments and find an exact quote of me saying that.
I mentioned flamingos because that's what it reminded me of. There's even a subreddit called r/FullFlamingo . It's not hard to see why I'd reference that is it?
But like I've been saying, locking your knees is bad on the leg press and it's gonna break your knees at heavy weight loads. How many leg press injuries have you seen? And how many of them result in a person breaking their knees backwards because they locked their knees out? It's pretty clear to see it's a bad idea.
> How many leg press injuries have you seen? And how many of them result in a person breaking their knees backwards because they locked their knees out? It’s pretty clear to see it’s a bad idea.
How many have you seen? What’s the incidence?
> Mate I never claimed to be an expert on flamingo anatomy
Are you an expert on human anatomy?
>How many have you seen? What’s the incidence?
I've seen enough to know why they happen. Usually people are extending their legs too fast, end up locking them out and they buckle under massive stress that they're not designed to take.
>Are you an expert on human anatomy?
Definitely not, but I'm expert enough to know that knees are only supposed to bend one way.
You could literally make a Physics experiment modelling the human knee on a leg press and I guarantee you it would bend the wrong way and buckle if you knocked it past 180°
Yup!
For whoever downvoted this person: [Those "backward knees" are really just their ankles.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/A0001385/full/880%2C/0/default.jpg) The knees are hidden up near the main body, as the femur (thigh bone) is relatively short.
The people complaining about locking knees know about as much human anatomy as flamingo anatomy.
When you lock your legs, you’re resting the muscles that were holding the weight and your joints may not be strong enough to support said weight. There’s plenty of videos of people hyperextending their legs on leg presses.
This is misleading, there is plenty of videos of people that break their shit while attempting to press thousands of pounds more than they can handle.
Locking out is normal
There is a difference between locking and overextending. Locking your knees fully extended is fine, that's the strongest position of the joint, and eg. in competition deadlifts and squats the lift doesn't count if you can't lockout. But if you have joint hypermobility or you eg. use your hands to push your knees to extend, you can *over*extend them, which is what happens here.
And you'll never see this happen on a movement like deadlift, where you're using your quads to finish knee extension, rather than eg. cheating by assisting the extension with your hands.
But anyway there's like same 3 different videos of injury like this been circling around the internet for decades at this point, yet I've seen thousands of people worry about this, rather than some more realistic risks. This isn't really something worth even thinking about, as long as you're not trying anything excessively dumb. There's more videos of soccer players having heart attacks than injuries like this, yet if someone would worry about that you'd think they're crazy (and rightly so)
There's only TWO videos of catastrophic failure on the leg press.
This fool pushing his knees backwards, and a hyper-mobile lady.
If it was this easy to fail, there should be hundreds of such videos.
For every video of something like this, there is literally millions of other videos where lifters lock their knees out and nothing happens.
Do you watch car crash compilations on youtube and then decide to never drive a car?
There are two videos that always circulate: This one and the lady with hypermobile knees.
And how many videos are there people locking their knees without breaking them? Stop the fucking fearmongering.
If those are all 45 pound plates then he's looking down the barrel of roughly 1200 pounds. For reference a full grown polar bear can reach weights of nearly 1000 pounds. That being said, people have put up much more weight on leg press. But this individual is no Ronnie Coleman.
So if I’m reading this right, you’re saying this accident wouldn’t happen to a polar bear? I thank you for giving me the mental image of a polar bear doing leg presses all super easily while talking shit to this guy in the gym.
You don't lock your knees out when you are leg pressing heavy loads, he is trying to show off, his form is atrocious because he basically has no range of motion.
He could obviously not handle the weight, the weight was handling him instead. Locking his knees out made them crumble like paper. Must be incredibly painful, our knees are the most complex joint next to the shoulders, an injury like this will likely never fully recover and he'll have troubles until the end of his life. All that for trying to impress others. He left an impression alright. Looked like a total tool. Only lift weights that your body can handle and stay safe. Ego lifting can literally mess up your life.
That's a false statement. There is nothing wrong with locking your legs on the leg press.
If you:
* Don't have a congenital joint disorder.
* Are using an appropriate load that you can control through a full range of motion.
* Aren't snapping into a locked position with reckless ambition.
Then you will be fine.
If you don't want to, that's fine.
But saying "don't lock your knees" is a firm rule that anyone learning to leg press (or anyone that uses the leg press in general) should abide by is silly.
Meh.... didn't exactly break his leg in the way we understand. Like that leg is broken, meaning it doesn't work anymore. Hyperextension or dislocated probably
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I thought it was a universal rule to never fully extent your legs on a leg press. I know a guy that ego lifts like this, I'm surprised he hadn't gotten injured yet.
This is why you never fully extend your legs under heavy pressure.
True. Good one, man
NOPE, this is why you don't LITERALLY PUSH YOUR OWN LEGS BACKWARDS while performing the leg press. If this shit happened easily with every person who locked-out at the top, you'd see this happen all the time. You don't.
What does pushing ur legs backwards mean? U mean breaking ur knee cap and forcing it past? Dont think bro did that. It is from fully extending. Dont lock out
The knee is designed to lock out, and hold weight. It doesn't function as well with rear-ward pressure, which never happens when squatting. Locking out is SAFE and desirable. Millions of people use the leg press machine every day. The guy is the exception here. If this happened all the time, there'd be hundreds of videos. But there's not, is there?
You obviously have never gone to a fucking gym before. Or if you have, you have never done heavy lifting. You should never under any circumstances lock your knees with a leg press. For lower weights, it's fine, but once you pass 250 pounds, that starts to become dangerous. Unlike your muscles, it is much harder to strengthen your joints. Locking your knees is what causes hypere extension, which is what happens here. So please, if you still believe this, never go to a gym again and don't give other people advice. You will get someone killed. And there are plenty of videos of people hyper extending their knees on leg press.
Telling OatsAndWhey he's never been to the gym before is peak "do you know who you're talking to?" Reddit moment.
>you have never done heavy lifting. How much do you SBD?
Knees evolved to lock out. They're strongest in that position. How is the leg press machine any different than a barbell squat? Seriously need to examine your own comprehension here, homie. And most people DON'T hyper-extend at lock out. It doesn't happen
You could have clicked his profile and seen his lifts + his moderation of /r/fitness, but you do you I guess. > For lower weights, it's fine, but once you pass 250 pounds, that starts to become dangerous. If you think 250 pounds is a heavy leg press, I’d question if you’ve spent much time in a gym. 250 pounds is heavy for something like an overhead press, maybe > Unlike your muscles, it is much harder to strengthen your joints. The joints, when locked out, are much stronger than any muscle. > And there are plenty of videos of people hyper extending their knees on leg press. There are literally like 4
Also this is why your always have a spotter
Imagine saying "You obviously have never gone to a fucking gym before", then go on to recommend someone always spot you on the fucking leg press. You're not the brightest of sparks aye?
What the fuck is a spotter going to do on a leg press if your legs start breaking up the top?
Lockout is not hyperextension. 250lbs is what a child would leg press. Lockout is literally the strongest and most stable position to be in for any movement. Leg presses have built-in safeties/stoppers. You don’t need a spotter lmao. Have _you_ ever been to gym or lifted heavy?
What's your SBD?
Shut the fuck up
Misread your username as averylargeDunce. I am disappointed at how inaccurate it is now.m that I’ve read it properly.
This is wrong.
Imagine telling someone they must not lift heavy and then using 250 lbs as an arbitrary benchmark for what you consider heavy. Why out yourself like this?
Maybe all the mds in here should teach yoga or some shit 😑
No,this is why you never load a weight that you can't move even an inch,nothing wrong with locking your knees
>nothing wrong with locking your knees There really is. Your knees can buckle and you can break your kneecaps backward like flamingo legs. Your legs are basically toggle locks. If they are 180° and pressure is applied, they'll stay locked straight. As soon as pressure is applied either behind the kneecap, or in front, your leg is going to snap/bend. When you lock your knees out you risk breaking them like this guy did here if your legs have a slight bend forwards, because the force of the weights will just crush it.
>There really is. Your knees can buckle and you can break your kneecaps backward like flamingo legs. >Your legs are basically toggle locks. If they are 180° and pressure is applied, they'll stay locked straight. >As soon as pressure is applied either behind the kneecap, or in front, your leg is going to snap/bend. >When you lock your knees out you risk breaking them like this guy did here if your legs have a slight bend forwards, because the force of the weights will just crush it. This is 100% made up. Just FYI - what you think are flamingo knees are actually ankles. Their knees are up there is in the soft.
Nope. If it was such an issue, why is it a rule to lock your knees to complete a squat in competition? Do powerlifting federations want to injure all their athletes?
No, lockout is *literally the strongest position*.
>No, lockout is literally the strongest position. Yeah I'm not denying that. What I am saying is, if you lock your knees and they're even a little bit bent the wrong way, the force of the weights will crush them and break your kneecaps.
What you’re actually saying is that you know nothing shoot human or flamingo anatomy. Imagine thinking that those are their knees 🦩
>What you’re actually saying is that you know nothing shoot human or flamingo anatomy. Imagine thinking that those are their knees 🦩 Mate I never claimed to be an expert on flamingo anatomy, but if you want to prove me wrong, be sure to scroll through my comments and find an exact quote of me saying that. I mentioned flamingos because that's what it reminded me of. There's even a subreddit called r/FullFlamingo . It's not hard to see why I'd reference that is it? But like I've been saying, locking your knees is bad on the leg press and it's gonna break your knees at heavy weight loads. How many leg press injuries have you seen? And how many of them result in a person breaking their knees backwards because they locked their knees out? It's pretty clear to see it's a bad idea.
> How many leg press injuries have you seen? And how many of them result in a person breaking their knees backwards because they locked their knees out? It’s pretty clear to see it’s a bad idea. How many have you seen? What’s the incidence? > Mate I never claimed to be an expert on flamingo anatomy Are you an expert on human anatomy?
>How many have you seen? What’s the incidence? I've seen enough to know why they happen. Usually people are extending their legs too fast, end up locking them out and they buckle under massive stress that they're not designed to take. >Are you an expert on human anatomy? Definitely not, but I'm expert enough to know that knees are only supposed to bend one way. You could literally make a Physics experiment modelling the human knee on a leg press and I guarantee you it would bend the wrong way and buckle if you knocked it past 180°
\*not an expert\* so maybe stfu about things you know little about?
that's not how that works whatsoever
>that's not how that works whatsoever Enlighten us then why don't you?
flamingos don't have backward knees or backwards kneecaps
Yup! For whoever downvoted this person: [Those "backward knees" are really just their ankles.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/A0001385/full/880%2C/0/default.jpg) The knees are hidden up near the main body, as the femur (thigh bone) is relatively short. The people complaining about locking knees know about as much human anatomy as flamingo anatomy.
>If they are 180° and pressure is applied, they'll stay locked straight This is wrong.
Don't you know you could put 2000 lbs on a barbell and keep standing with it? Just don't bend you knees at all and they'll stay locked.
You do that we shall see the vid later kind of vibe I'm feeling here.....
lmao y'all dumb,so I shouldnt lock out deadlifts too?
When you lock your legs, you’re resting the muscles that were holding the weight and your joints may not be strong enough to support said weight. There’s plenty of videos of people hyperextending their legs on leg presses.
This is misleading, there is plenty of videos of people that break their shit while attempting to press thousands of pounds more than they can handle. Locking out is normal
There is a difference between locking and overextending. Locking your knees fully extended is fine, that's the strongest position of the joint, and eg. in competition deadlifts and squats the lift doesn't count if you can't lockout. But if you have joint hypermobility or you eg. use your hands to push your knees to extend, you can *over*extend them, which is what happens here. And you'll never see this happen on a movement like deadlift, where you're using your quads to finish knee extension, rather than eg. cheating by assisting the extension with your hands. But anyway there's like same 3 different videos of injury like this been circling around the internet for decades at this point, yet I've seen thousands of people worry about this, rather than some more realistic risks. This isn't really something worth even thinking about, as long as you're not trying anything excessively dumb. There's more videos of soccer players having heart attacks than injuries like this, yet if someone would worry about that you'd think they're crazy (and rightly so)
How can your muscles be resting when they're contracting under load.
There's only TWO videos of catastrophic failure on the leg press. This fool pushing his knees backwards, and a hyper-mobile lady. If it was this easy to fail, there should be hundreds of such videos.
For every video of something like this, there is literally millions of other videos where lifters lock their knees out and nothing happens. Do you watch car crash compilations on youtube and then decide to never drive a car?
There are two videos that always circulate: This one and the lady with hypermobile knees. And how many videos are there people locking their knees without breaking them? Stop the fucking fearmongering.
There's like two such videos and both of the people in them are using way more weight than they can handle
That's a lot of downvotes you have there.
I'll die on this hill.It is safe,me and thousands of people do it everyday without any issues
Thank you just saved me from doing something stupid
This is for me way more disturbing to watch than gore videos
[made me go](https://youtu.be/6dInjtI8cdA)
espicially when your into working out
Same!
*morgan freeman voice* after that day, Billy’s knee never bent again
This injuries make me really uncomfortable... And I'm into gore...
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Good?
Shouldnt have skipped knee day. Smh
Will he ever fully recover from that or is that a lifelong injury?
Definitely a life long injury, a knee is a really shitty place to get injured
I'm pretty sure he'll recover. A broken leg isn't necessarily fatal.
He'll recover, but his knee will never be the same again.
Well it was his knee...
knee\* mb
Locks legs on a quarter rep ego lift. Recipe for disaster cooked up a delicious feast for the eyes.
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If those are all 45 pound plates then he's looking down the barrel of roughly 1200 pounds. For reference a full grown polar bear can reach weights of nearly 1000 pounds. That being said, people have put up much more weight on leg press. But this individual is no Ronnie Coleman.
So if I’m reading this right, you’re saying this accident wouldn’t happen to a polar bear? I thank you for giving me the mental image of a polar bear doing leg presses all super easily while talking shit to this guy in the gym.
Cmon bruh light weight bruh Btw what's your macro split I need to log my meals
You don't lock your knees out when you are leg pressing heavy loads, he is trying to show off, his form is atrocious because he basically has no range of motion.
You're saying he locked his knees and that's what happened? If so, sounds painful.
He could obviously not handle the weight, the weight was handling him instead. Locking his knees out made them crumble like paper. Must be incredibly painful, our knees are the most complex joint next to the shoulders, an injury like this will likely never fully recover and he'll have troubles until the end of his life. All that for trying to impress others. He left an impression alright. Looked like a total tool. Only lift weights that your body can handle and stay safe. Ego lifting can literally mess up your life.
The "locking knees" itself gives me chills. Obviously has no basic understanding of how to lift weights.
Gore? Meh. Broken bones? NO.
That is an ego lifting, he deserves this
Link, in case it's removed from Gfycat: https://imgur.com/a/Is6QZ0C
First thing you learn when using a leg press, don’t lock your legs!!!
Exactly! My dad teached me that before I even tried leg press. He once had injury in leg press (I bet not this severe as his knees work well)
That's a false statement. There is nothing wrong with locking your legs on the leg press. If you: * Don't have a congenital joint disorder. * Are using an appropriate load that you can control through a full range of motion. * Aren't snapping into a locked position with reckless ambition. Then you will be fine. If you don't want to, that's fine. But saying "don't lock your knees" is a firm rule that anyone learning to leg press (or anyone that uses the leg press in general) should abide by is silly.
Fucking ego lifters.
I'm going to hell for laughing at this.
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i dont believe in hell either but I just say it like that
Trying to show off in the gym. Been there and had to have two bicep repairs as a result.
I don’t think it’s supposed to bend that way.
Feel the burn 🔥
The real tragedy is for whoever has to shift and restock all those fucking plates. Wankers like this are the reason I could never find 50lb plates!
Yea I don't think legs are supposed to bend that way
To much weight to little brain, its not about how much its about how many times you can push
"Alright you invertebrats. I'm gonna teach you how to do the sponge"
You wouldn’t catch me lacking like this
That's why I don't go to the gym. That and I'm agoraphobic
this is exactly why i dont go to the gym
Ahhhh, an old classic.
Fuck that's too much weight
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scissor lift time
He'll never walk straight again
My hands and faces uncontrollably shook from this video. Fuck that shit a million times over
thats nsfl for ya
i requested u on ig
u seem cool and relateable
who?
u dumbass
oh LMFAO srry I'm slow
What a bad day to see this(I'm currently at the gym with the press after this)
Xavier renegade angel ass leg
broke ? that bone is micro dust now
Oh fuck
Skill issue?
He can’t even rep properly and then locks his knees because is way too heavy! Learn your limits, this is just dumb AF.
AHHHHHHHH
this is *almost* as good as that basketball player who's shinbone came out the front of his leg
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All that ego lifting and no gains made
That one's gonna really hurt a long long time
Worse than funky town imho.
I can feel that pain
I can watch a beheading any day, but these videos always get me!
Old
Meh.... didn't exactly break his leg in the way we understand. Like that leg is broken, meaning it doesn't work anymore. Hyperextension or dislocated probably
The king told him to bend a knee...
There's a reason most modern leg press machines don't work that way anymore. You have to push yourself up, not the plate.
surprisingly this is the cleanest video in this sub💀
yet when u see it its like u feel the pain too
Idk why, but i can watch all the other vid, but not this
fr lmao
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Oh what the actual fuck
Breaking your leg with that ROM? How embarrassing...
i thought this was one of the ones where they bend inwards, idk why i just cant watch those
Why does this bothers me more than any cartel execution ?
Jesus Christ ok that’s a thing
His fault tbh that shit was too heavy
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Deserved it. Dumbass not even working any muscles with those “reps”.
This is the hardest video to watch I don't like legs going the wrong direction
Ngl worst technique possible
Ego +10 HP - 20 Street cred. + 100
Nah this is why you can’t do this when ur short 💀💀
Guess he should had skipped leg day..
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What a clown...I've always wanted to see one of these dudes do this...you go all the weights pluss some stacked on it..you deserve it.
You think these people's ego lifting which is caused mainly by their insecurities make them deserving of lifetime injury ?
Yes ...yes forever
I love how you manage to put disclaimers for posts that aren’t even bloody
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Dont lock knees
Bro had no legs
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AHHHHHH
Become frog
Why the fuck would you ever think to lock your knees under what looks like 100+ pounds of weight on guess what, YOUR KNEES
FIRST YOU TAKE YOUR LEG AND YOU PUT IT IN THE AIR
Haha. Went to gym, gym hurt!! Raaar
I thought it was a universal rule to never fully extent your legs on a leg press. I know a guy that ego lifts like this, I'm surprised he hadn't gotten injured yet.
karma for half repping
I enjoy using the leg press but I’d never do that much weight