Are squats or leg press better for legs?

[Arnold]

If you do strength training to improve your sports performance or your general physical functioning in every day life, you can forget about leg-presses. Rather than wasting your time on the leg-press machine you would do better to concentrate on squats. We base this bold statement on a study that the German sports scientist Klaus

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[Lovetogetjacked]

It is also known that people who's main focus is hypertrophy, many can benefit from leg presses more than squats.

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[h=3]Leg Press: A Better Muscle-Builder Than Squats[/h] Leg presses are a much better muscle builder for the following reasons:

• You don't have to stop a set prematurely because your lower back, feet, ankles, or wheezing lungs gave out before your legs did. When you stop a set of leg presses, you did it because your quads failed you.
• You can keep doing reps until you reach total exhaustion. (Hell, you're already kind of on the ground, so there's nowhere to fall.)
• Auto-forced reps. You can put your hands on your knees and push to give yourself some extra reps.