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Originally Posted by Garland
...Nopes.
The leg machine won't help you stand in those wing chun stances...the muscle groups that get cooked the most by that are the hip adductors and the hip abductors...essentially the outside and inside of your thighs...
there are special machines for these, such as some of the products produced by Hammer Strength equipment. Still...holding the stances for a prolonged period of time is different from doing explosive reps...it's more muscular endurance than musclar strength.
THE BEST WAY to build the strength to sit for extended periods of time in those stances, is quite simply to sit in those stances for extended periods of time. If you get bored, mix it up with wall sits.
Olympic and 3/4 squats could probably work much better than the leg press for lower body strength anyway.
...which is another point...SQUATS are for legs and core...NOT upper body.
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Sorry, I wasn't too specific about the squats - I am stretching out the bar across my shoulders and arms so it is developing both legs and shoulders
The wing chun stance (at least the way Kamon does it) come from the thighs and hips. Again I wasn't that specific - I was talking about Bil ma stance as well as the basic stance
But I think you know more about gym work than I do Garland