Reverse Leg Press

[qb0708]

Well i think it's good and you felt improvement and that's great..
Have you done many explosive med ball drills? Shown in GPP or some of the other dvd's? IF you think this exercise improves acceleration try some some single hop, double and triple hop med ball throws. They are seriously intense and you need to be fresh and keep the numbers down and quality high but OMG.
I don't love the ankle extention so much for myself as I feel it detracts for the work in the area you are most interested.
I was watching you again and wondered if you could try and roll a towel around the bar and actually rest your shoulder below the provided support so the angle is more as i spoke about? IM just curious. Use the corner of a matt as a towel likely wont cut it.Just a thought.

I've used the MB throws in my training and the throws into the pit are the base of our programming for the football team.

For me, personally, I don't need a lot of development in my glutes or hamstrings so the overall strengthening is very economical.

Below is a recent video of my 3-point start, in years past, I was not able to achieve full extension of the knee.

http://ubersense.com/video/view/EgYK...-3-point-start

Edit: I tried to embed but the link would not work.

[NumberTwo]

rich121 - The guy who wrote that article is a complete moron and knows nothing about sprinting. His line about Usain Bolt running even faster by doing hip thrusts is completely moronic and ill-informed. As Charlie would say, "Bolt has the best hip extension of anyone in the world, he's the world record holder in the 100m. By virtue of the fact he is the world record holder, has the best hips. What would you know about Bolts' training. You've never met him or seen him train!"

That is the problem with the internet. Anyone can start a blog and call themselves the "Glute Guy" and write drivel about horseshit, drop names, misquote people and take things out of context. Makes me want to vomit in my mouth.

Thank you for the great information Angela.
qb0708 thanks for the video, glad it works for you and I am hoping to find something here I can adapt.

I also ran across this article that included Charlies training concepts:

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_...the_glute_myth

A quote from the above article:

"Charlie Francis talked about how there were only a few athletes in the world who could maintain "sprint form" in the 100-meter sprint and how sprinters knew they had a bad day if they felt their sprints in their quads.

Over twenty years ago, he was prescribing reverse leg presses as his main glute and hamstring exercise in order to prepare his athletes for the big race. The reverse leg press was like a donkey kick performed while standing backwards facing away from a leg press on a Universal gym. Talk about being years ahead of your time! The reverse leg press is a great exercise, but the hip thrust and pendulum quadruped hip extension are even better."

What are your thoughts about the last sentence, " the hip thrust and pendulum quadruped hip extension are even better"?

[RB34]

I was about to suggest the weighted hip thrust, actually. I've been doing those lately and I have been getting great results. it's basically a reverse leg press from a lying down position. your legs usually stay bent, although you can do them with straight legs, I believe...

Hip thrust similar to the rev leg press???

[rich121]

How about this (other than it does not look like it would take much abuse)? Does this appear to be adjustable enough to get the correct angles?

http://youtu.be/4f1GSj1etJU

[sady]

How about this (other than it does not look like it would take much abuse)? Does this appear to be adjustable enough to get the correct angles?

http://youtu.be/4f1GSj1etJU

I don't like it simply because the running motion has different angles.

[rich121]

Any recommended stand alone leg press, or other device, that would do this exercise correctly and would be affordable (a couple hundred) used?

[sady]

Any recommended stand alone leg press, or other device, that would do this exercise correctly and would be affordable (a couple hundred) used?

Use a smiths machine to do the squats, do not complete the movements

[RB34]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRGPyrM0aY

[rich121]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbRGPyrM0aY

This seems even more un-natural than the first video I posted?

[RB34]

This seems even more un-natural than the first video I posted?

Un-natural how so?