Very impressive!

I’ve never really done much with the squat and find the form of holding the bar in front to be interesting. Whenever I have attempted the squat, I was holding the bar behind my neck but this approach seems like it would be much more comfortable.

I’ll be giving the squat a try over the weekend to see how I can compare to The Machine! Although I cannot go too crazy as I don’t have mats to dump the weight on and don’t want to crack my basement floor, lol (btw, that is my prebuilt excuse for what I expect to be a humbling experience).

We do back squats as well (where the squat is resting on your back behind your head) and typically you can squat a fair bit more using a back squat than a front squat (as shown in the video). My max back squat is 10% higher than my max front squat.

Front squats are actually safer if you are doing them on your own as if you get in trouble (back starts to curve) you can simply let go and push it forwards (as tweety and bull did in the video), but front squats do take more wrist and shoulder flexibility. The key is to open up the hands to keep the pressure off your wrists and drive your elbows up to lock the bar against your body, keep your chest up and weight centered over the heals. It actually takes more core stability than the back squat because there is a natural tendency for your upper body to want to tilt forward, but concentrating on driving the elbows up helps avoiding this from happening.

I just did a workout involving the back squat today. My body is soo stiff right now