Sled One Leg Press
Adjust the leg press machine seat and foot platform to your comfort, ensuring your back is firmly against the pad. Place one foot flat on the center of the foot platform, with your knee bent. Your other foot can rest on the side or hang freely.
- Equipment
- Gym Machine
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- Focus Area
- Legs
- Injury risk
- Low
Primary muscles
- quadriceps
- gluteus maximus
Secondary muscles
- hamstrings
- adductor magnus
- gastrocnemius
- soleus
- erector spinae
- rectus abdominis
Target muscles
- legs
- glutes
- hamstrings
How to perform
- 1
Adjust the leg press machine seat and foot platform to your comfort, ensuring your back is firmly against the pad.
- 2
Place one foot flat on the center of the foot platform, with your knee bent. Your other foot can rest on the side or hang freely.
- 3
Release the safety catches and extend your working leg, pushing the sled away until your knee is slightly bent, not locked out.
- 4
Slowly lower the sled by bending your knee, allowing it to come towards your chest until your thigh is close to your torso or you reach your comfortable maximum depth.
- 5
Pause briefly at the bottom, then powerfully push through your heel and midfoot to extend your leg, returning the sled to the starting position with a soft knee bend.
- 6
Complete all repetitions on one leg before carefully switching to the other leg.
Safety & form
Train smart. Read these notes before adding heavy load.
