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I had a similar physio plan for a knee injury and it worked wonders.
One thing to note is there are various styles of leg press machines and the weight can vary massively depending on how you move on the machine. I was up to 90kg on one machine which equates to 40kg in my gym. With some machines you move diagonally so some of your body weight is factored in.
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That’s a good point. I reckon I could get close to BW on a single leg pendulum squat but the leg press machine (not a vertical push plate type) is really tough.
@cookiemonster Thanks, this injury is actually engaged in the first 5-10° of movement in the leg so deeper doesn’t actually equal pain. It is finally beginning to feel less inflamed so I’ll do another couple of weeks of my prescribed exercises before increasing any load.
inchpincher
So I've been having physio on my knee this past month due to an inflamed bursa and one of the recovery exercises is to focus on single leg presses (on the LP machine). This was informed by my desire to get back into running and was told a normal benchmark would be 8 reps @ bodyweight. I know my legs ain't impressive but I'm a long way from that... does that sound a bit OTT to anyone else?
I think it might be the case similar to my feeble pull-up tally that losing 10kgs will do more good than lifting heavy weights.