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[Traymond]

If you can make it to the gym, the seated leg presses work extremely well. they work the quadriceps and calves and they tend to make your front kick look better and more effective.

Yes, it pretty well mimics the front kick motion. You just can't get your hips into the weight movement, though. Other than that, pretty much a match.

True about the hips...I Didn't think about the hips...

[Minesweeper]

If you can make it to the gym, the seated leg presses work extremely well. they work the quadriceps and calves and they tend to make your front kick look better and more effective.

I started doing these two weeks ago. I do 10x2 every other day with 40lbs weight.

[Traymond]

If you can make it to the gym, the seated leg presses work extremely well. they work the quadriceps and calves and they tend to make your front kick look better and more effective.

I started doing these two weeks ago. I do 10x2 every other day with 40lbs weight.

Ok but dont make yourself feel obligated that you only need to do twenty every other day. If you want, spend some time focusing just on the leg press and do some of the other leg exercises, try to work your legs all in one day and then your upper body the next day..

[Minesweeper]

If you can make it to the gym, the seated leg presses work extremely well. they work the quadriceps and calves and they tend to make your front kick look better and more effective.

I started doing these two weeks ago. I do 10x2 every other day with 40lbs weight.

Ok but dont make yourself feel obligated that you only need to do twenty every other day. If you want, spend some time focusing just on the leg press and do some of the other leg exercises, try to work your legs all in one day and then your upper body the next day..

Right now, my strength training regime includes:

1. 10x2 seated leg presses

2. 10x2 squats

3. 10x2 arm presses (I think that's what these are called - where you lie on your back and lift up and down)

4. 10x2 shoulder exercises (where you're sitting up right and lifting an overhead bar down to your chest)

5. 10 assisted lunges (I hold onto something) with each leg

6. 10x2 dumbbell bent-over rows - free weights

7. 10 push ups (this is outside of the 10-20 pushups I do as warm-up for karate 5 days a week)

8. 10 leg raises (lying on your back and lifting your legs straight up and down)

9. 5x2 lower leg pull-ups (not sure what this is called but this is where I'm resting my elbows on pads and raising my legs to my chest/bending my knees).

10. Trying to do pull-ups but suck utterly - can't even manage to push myself up an inch. Even just hanging from the bar feels like the end of the world.

11. 10x2 crunches

I know it's better to work with free weights than use the machines, but I have access to a free gym that unfortunately does not include barbells, so I use free weights where I can and machines the rest of the time.

Do you guys have any suggestions? Should I modify my workout any?

[Traymond]

If you can make it to the gym, the seated leg presses work extremely well. they work the quadriceps and calves and they tend to make your front kick look better and more effective.

I started doing these two weeks ago. I do 10x2 every other day with 40lbs weight.

Ok but dont make yourself feel obligated that you only need to do twenty every other day. If you want, spend some time focusing just on the leg press and do some of the other leg exercises, try to work your legs all in one day and then your upper body the next day..

Right now, my strength training regime includes:

1. 10x2 seated leg presses

2. 10x2 squats

3. 10x2 arm presses (I think that's what these are called - where you lie on your back and lift up and down)

4. 10x2 shoulder exercises (where you're sitting up right and lifting an overhead bar down to your chest)

5. 10 assisted lunges (I hold onto something) with each leg

6. 10x2 dumbbell bent-over rows - free weights

7. 10 push ups (this is outside of the 10-20 pushups I do as warm-up for karate 5 days a week)

8. 10 leg raises (lying on your back and lifting your legs straight up and down)

9. 5x2 lower leg pull-ups (not sure what this is called but this is where I'm resting my elbows on pads and raising my legs to my chest/bending my knees).

10. Trying to do pull-ups but suck utterly - can't even manage to push myself up an inch. Even just hanging from the bar feels like the end of the world.

11. 10x2 crunches

I know it's better to work with free weights than use the machines, but I have access to a free gym that unfortunately does not include barbells, so I use free weights where I can and machines the rest of the time.

Do you guys have any suggestions? Should I modify my workout any?

I actually like the machines more than the freeweights. I would work on your core for more Balance (Tandem). And your legs would be what I focus on, I go to the gym daily so I split it up one day for legs and the next for upper body and then I rotate it over and over again. It also helps to ask for help when your at the gym find a work out buddy to push you.