A movement coach in France discovered that elevating your feet during leg exercises reduces load on your knees while increasing quad activation at the end range. The technique preps you for harder progressions: quarter squats, paused reps, fatiguing sets, and speed work.
I would say this is my favorite innovation in strength training in a long time, came from real movement coach France. And the simple innovation of elevating the feet really changes the game on these. Okay, so I am yet to gain the ability to do this movement off the floor, but with the feet elevated, I can get that feeling of strengthening that end position accelerating at the bottom because it's a lighter load because of the angle. So now I'm actually training these positions, and I can feel it improving quite quickly. This is my favorite movement innovation in a long time thing that I've implemented into my training. You can really feel the quads work hard, and the quads need this. These are the most anabolic movements. Okay, so the end position is the most anabolic place to perform a strength feet, the lengthened range, because you've got that connective tissue pulling hard on the muscle. There's already tension there, and then you contract the muscle. So if you really wanted to tear a muscle, if someone was going to give you a million dollars to tear your quad, then something along these lines might help you. Now to prepare for that, you would probably do a lot of quarter squats, park repetitions, fatigue, and tighten everything as much as you can. And then you would come into these positions with speed.
