Barbell Squats - Quadriceps Exercises For Building Big Legs

[buffbeno]

You get a lot of respect for doing this down the gym. I would go lower than this though

[mastadizzy]

When you go to the top, don't straight your legs. This is very bad for you knees (patella). Just bend them at the top a little.

[TranceNRG11]

Pretty good, but I would go down a little bit further at least till you are parellel to the ground.

[Sigrafix]

When people say you should be able to bench press your body weight, they mean to set that as a goal, not that it's your capability... a "test" for fitness IS the ability to bench press your own weight.

Leg presses however are completely different.. I can leg press about 4 times my bodyweight.. (720lbs max on an angled leg press machine) but when it comes to squats, I only do about 185lbs free weight, and 225lbs on a smith machine.

Start light on the bench, get your form right.

[worshipme213]

1.5x BW

[GuitaristJesse2442]

dont bench press your body weight if you have just started weights.

you will hurt yourself.

start off really light and add more weight.