How do you perform this exercise?
- Adjust the seat height and foot platform to your desired position.
- Sit on the machine with your back against the pad and your feet flat on the foot platform.
- Grasp the handles or the sides of the seat for stability.
- Engage your glutes and hamstrings, and push through your heels to lift the weight up.
- Keep your back straight and avoid rounding your shoulders.
- Extend your hips fully at the top of the movement, squeezing your glutes.
- Lower the weight back down in a controlled manner, keeping tension on your glutes and hamstrings.
- Repeat for the desired number of repetitions.
Which other muscles are involved?
Hamstrings, Quadriceps.
How do you log your sets?
How do you track progressive overload?Source: ExerciseDB catalogue and demonstration. Related movements are options to compare, not equivalent loads or a prescribed progression.
