I don’t really feel a difference in the muscle groups worked when doing front vs read squats. What’s the point of front squats?
Do they work a different or additional group than rear? They’re fucking uncomfortable as hell to do too. Why bother with them if you can pile on the weight and just do rear squats?
Fronts mainly hit your quads
Backs also hit the lower back
limiting factor in front squats is upper back.
they also have slightly more quad activation
If old-Elliot Hulse is to be believed, front squats are also good at gauging athleticism. Has something to do with balance.
stupid question but what is the best squat variation to work on your glutes and back the most, and your quads the least?
Box squats
I guess they are good if you want to work on thoratic extension.
They put less strain on the lower back, if you had an injury they are excellent.
They do train more the quads but also engage more core since you need to be straight up otherwise the bar falls down.
It's easier to maintain good technique because if you don't keep your back straight you will see your elbows getting lowered, which can be easily corrected.
If you have an ab weakness imbalance you will notice with front squats
because you're doing high bar which has the same mechanics without the need for core and upper back stabilisation
zerchers, but you will work every muscle in your lowerbody regardless of which version you do.
Good cardio session for me...
There isnt that much. People will tell you that
>it works quads more
Which really isnt that true. It demands more quad strength due to a higher demand of staying upright. To stay upright, you need a vertical upper back and knees forward as much as possible. However, you can load more weight with your back squat and achieve the same kind of quad dominant squat.
The biggest difference in between the two is upper back leverage. Due to the position of the bar in the back squat, you don't have as much demand placed on your upper back. Due to the forward position of the bar in the front squat, you have more demand on your upper back to remain upright to keep the weight in its most efficient bar path as you squat it.
Max Aita, who trained under Ivan Abadjiev, emphasizes pause back squats over front squats. Not that front squats don't have a place in training, but you need to evaluate whether the lower load of the front squats is going to provide enough effect compared to a heavier pause back squat.
>rear squats
Found the guys whose torso is not straight enough when doing back squats.
Did you not read what I posted? The FS demand on the quads is simply a function of its need for more verticality. The front squat is an excellent tool for training upper back stabilisation, but in terms of strict weight loading and muscles used, the highbar squat is much more favorable. You can look at all the olympic lifters in the world and you're going to see that back squats are a much greater portion of the squatting volume that they do than front squats
All I'm saying is, if you get a similar amount of quad activation on back squats as on front squats, your torso is likely too far forward when doing back squats. Push your hips back, put the weight more on the heels, activate your glutes and hamstrings. The quads should be activated way less than with front squads.
a deadlift
low bar
more forward lean means more work for the glutes to do to get you upright again and more forward lean increases torque on the back, and heavier weight than other kinds of squat like this one allows compounds these effects. quads are hit less because the glute:quad involvement ratio is higher for low bar squats but you have to understand that squats are a knee dominant movement (even low bar squats) and its totally impossible to do them without your quads being hit hard if not hardest
if you want more glute and back work, i'd suggest deficit deadlifts, conventional deadlifts and romanian deadlifts. you're just never going to remove quads from squats to any appreciable degree
>too far forward
by whose standards, yours?
your torso angle is a function of your anthropometry during correctly performed high bars and forcing your torso to a more upright angle if your body isn't proportioned to do this optimally will throw your off balance or cause some other problem in your form.
the reason front squats are more difficult when performed correctly by most people is that the bar position is different and forces the torso to be higher on that basis. whoever told you to keep as upright as possible during high bars was probably someone who should have recommended front squats to you instead
>your torso is too far forward
A more forward/horizontal torso inherently involves more hamstring and glute. A more vertical torso in the back squat will demand more of the quads. Try it - go into a full ATG squat with a vertical torso, pause it, and drive up. Tell me that it's not involving your quads.
Secondly, suggesting that your quads should be less active in a back squat than a front squat is a mentality that needs to die. The primary movers of squatting are knee and hip extension, both dominated by glutes and quadriceps. The usage of hamstrings in the squat for hip extension - back or front- is much weaker than the usage of glutes and quads.
Did u really clip one plate mane?