Self Loaded Barbell Pin Leg Press

Lay on the ground inside of a power rack or below the spotter arms of a squat rack. Set your pins at a height based on your hip mobility (roughly 90° bend in the knees). Load the barbell onto the pins with the desired weight and position yourself so that at the flexed hip position, the bar is in the arch of your feet. Hold onto either the ground or the power rack and leg press the weight until lockout by flexing your quads. Lower under control until the weight is resting on the rack. This is a safer version of doing this outside the rack as it can’t fall on you, but expect the bar to shift and get out of position if you bounce it on the pins. Due to the nature of this exercise you CAN lockout your knees without injury unlike the normal leg press machine where people often load it with way too much weight for the knee stabilizers.

This can also be done on a smith machine but it is not as fun!