Which Is Better—Leg Press or Squats?

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Which Is Better—Leg Press or Squats?

People who argue questions like this do so because they prefer talking to doing. These kinds of pointless debating points are nothing but distractions from the fact that those engaging in such conversation aren’t at the gym working out—and most likely haven’t been in quite a while.

Whenever I run across such nonsense in forums, or in online articles by the “experts,” three things jump out at me:

First of all, the bozos heatedly arguing the topic aren’t at the gym working their quads, but rather sitting on their ass, eyes glued to a screen.

Secondly, the bozos heatedly arguing the topic aren’t at the gym working their quads, but rather sitting on their ass, eyes glued to a screen.

And Third, the bozos heatedly arguing the topic aren’t at the gym working their quads, but rather sitting on their ass, eyes glued to a screen.

To sum up, Thumb presses don’t count as a workout. And there’s no way to scientifically qualify or quantify which exercise is “better,” especially when those debating the question in most cases aren’t often doing either one.

By the way, that’s me and my quads in the photo on the leg press machine. I rarely do squats. I asked my quads for their opinion, and all four agreed that neither exercise is any better than the other.

To quote Quad #2, "It's not what exercise you do, it's how you do it."