Hey guys, this is Jeff Cavaliere here from athleanx.com and where you see me standing
here is... you guys are pretty smart, so you're probably gonna be able to figure it out.
But what do you think I'm doing when I do this exercise right here?
A lot of you guys have been in the gym a lot, you're gonna say leg extensions and you're
right partially... but really what I'm doing is I'm destroying my knees.
What I'm doing here with this leg extension is completely destroying my kneecaps, because
that compressive force that happens on your kneecaps everytime you're down in this position
and then try to push out is about 8 times your body weight.
So you're basically destroying your knees and it's not good.
I wanna show you a way to not only do leg extensions in a much better way, a much more
creative way... as you guys know, that's how we do it here... but also in a way that's
gonna build up your legs more than just doing this kind of lame exercise here.
And by the way, this is the last time you'll ever see me do this exercise ever again.
Now coming here, I'm gonna grab my low pullies...I'm gonna put my low pullies on the machine and
now i'm gonna set myself down into an athletic position here... and I'm just gonna basically
walk myself backwards.
Now if you look closely, you'll see that I'm actually extending my knee.
I'm doing my leg extension each step on my knee, but the main difference is I've got
my feet on the ground, which is where they're gonna be in most things you do anyway.
So now as I go back, I can work the negative by coming in nice and slow.
Again, staying low and coming right down to the point where I'm almost touching the weight
stack.
Now I go back in reverse in a reverse pull.
My arms aren't doing anything, everything is coming from my legs.
You come in nice and slow, back...push all the way back to extension, so it's a one leg
extension every single time.
And come back in.
We've got one more rep.
I tell you, this is already burning my legs up.
But you can go heavy on this, you're protecting your knees...it's much different than when
your leg is up in the air, swinging around... 'cause that's when all that compressive force
comes in.
Now we all wanna save our knees because it's got a lot of use in the gym workout.
If you're doing workout programs filled with exercises like that, you're gonna want to
spend more time out of the gym than you do in it, recovering from your pains and aches...from
your joints to your knees to your ankles to your shoulders...
We all have them, but if you're doing a smart exercise program, you're gonna avoid them.
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We'll be back here again next week with another good video.
Thanks, guys!