Goofing around with my barbell by doing a deadlift entirely wrong I came across what felt like a leg press.
I first squatted deep, all the way down, and here grabbed the bar, which necessitated a bend in the elbows like the top of a karwoski shrug.
The bar is in front of me, I’m holding onto it, and I’m at the bottom of an atg squat.
I then squatted up, though by pushing my feet on/through the floor, without hips as the focus joint of movement (only raising them as necessary) it felt very much like a leg press.
Or uncoiling from the bottom of a high bar squat.
I lowered the bar with a deadlift’s negative, and did a few reps in all.
Could this be a Westside Barbell special exercise?
By goofing off I found a very good leg exercise, which reminded me of when you deep squat standing on two boxes with a kettlebell dangling between your legs.
That’s a leg/glute exercise I really like the feel of, it’s very high in muscular activation, and I just improvised a similar feeling with a barbell.
This is as close to having the weight underneath you as you could improvise with just a barbell and the floor.
You can do stuff with weights that are outside the box.
In certain circumstances, you have to. And it does make it all more fun.