The gym added a new gadget:
You lock your shins into it and stand up from “sitting down” holding weights. The weight room is packed and I’m supposed to do hip thrusts, and it seems like this makes up for a very similar movement but I don’t know for sure. (Not having to fiddle with padding a bar so as to endure having the weight across my hips would be a plus.) Also I have no idea what name to search for :)
The terminology
That would be a supported sissy squat.
The difference between a supported and a "free" sissy squat is nicely illustrated here:
Image courtesy of legendfitness.com
Does it replace hip thrusts?
No, not at all. The sissy squat is a heavily quadricep-focused exercise. In fact, it's what a lot of people use to downright isolate the quads because it takes so much else out of the equation.
The hip thrust on the other hand is a glute-focused exercise.
So bottom line; they do not replace each other. But both are good supplementary exercises to your usual compound exercises like deadlift and squat.
