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02-03-2007, 11:35 AM
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| Head of UK-M's neighbourhood boob watch.  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Southampton
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    | Front Squats Hiya Been reading about doing front squats instead of normal behind the neck ones, whats the benefit of doing them this way and is there a knack for doing them as I tried them before and its quite uncomfortable. Cheers
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02-03-2007, 11:40 AM
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| Not as in the gay cowboy film, as in a back injury lol  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: uk
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| Re: Front Squats Im sure thay hit your quads more, start off with a bench behind you, when your going down and just touch it with your as$ ,then power up, then when your cool with going back far enough you can take it away, i know i toppled over the first time i did them. I just have to make sure i keep my back at 45 or i get lower back pain. Hope this makes sense lol
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02-03-2007, 02:29 PM
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| Re: Front Squats Front Squats really hi the quads very intensely, as you say it is bery hard to do them the first time, what helps for me doing them is to either place a towel around the bar, or use a spongy pad around the bar. You are best to cross your arms and place the weight on the front of your shoulders, the Bench behind you idea is a great one, you could start off with a high bench then after a couple of weeks start to lower the height, in know time at all you will be usinga repectable weight with good Technique. Also you could practice sitting on ther Bench for say 2-3 Seconds to take any mometum out of the Movement like Westside Bench Squats, then power the weight up, this will get you used to holding the weight in this Position, and give you confidence to go heavier, again start off with a very light weight and concentrate on technique. I have been doing Front Squats to a Parrallel bench for the last 4 Weeks and I feel much stronger, I done 200KG for 1 Rep last week to a parrallel bench, this will carry over big time to your back squat. All you have to do is look at some Olypmic weightlifters legs to see the beneits of front squats, also some OL lifters probably have the biggest Raw back squats in the world as well. Hope that this helps. |
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02-03-2007, 02:59 PM
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| Re: Front Squats Bump for nine pack, this is one of his favourites! Meanwhile this may help http://www.exrx.net/WeightExercises/...rontSquat.html SD
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02-03-2007, 06:51 PM
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| train alone, eat alone, sleep alone  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: E. London/Essex
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| Re: Front Squats Imo, the main benefit of front squats is that you can go deeper without leaning forward. This movement puts less strain on the lower back. It's all quads.
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02-03-2007, 08:02 PM
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| Re: Front Squats Yeah, 9pack should be able to shed more light on it... Also for the uncomfortable part of it he uses this http://www.gymratz.co.uk/weight-trai...nt/item182.htm |
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05-03-2007, 09:28 PM
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| latics mad  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: ashton-under-lyne
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| Re: Front Squats this will explain why my legs are so sore today..normaly i do 70k squats behind the neck 3 sets in my leg workout.but yesterday i used the wife cause my shoulders are sore..i held her infront of me with a 10k db in her lap =82 k and did 3 sets..im tellin you it hits the quads more..and i will be doing it again..probably alternating the 2... |
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06-03-2007, 08:42 AM
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| Head of UK-M's neighbourhood boob watch. Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Southampton
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| Re: Front Squats Thanks guys... I got 16 days until my cast comes off, once thats done im gonna start doing these...
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