Front squats, who loves them?

[number twelve]

i love them but regular squats are still my main leg exercise

[Amorphic]

i love them but regular squats are still my main leg exercise

do you feel like you get a better workout with traditional style squats vs the front?

i seem to feel more stress on my leg muscles and better pumps with the front position

[soulstealer]

do you feel like you get a better workout with traditional style squats vs the front?

i seem to feel more stress on my leg muscles and better pumps with the front position

The biggest thing I notice about front squats is it trashes my glutes/hammies much faster then my quads (I go ass to ankles)..

[naturalsux]

The biggest thing I notice about front squats is it trashes my glutes/hammies much faster then my quads (I go ass to ankles)..

i get the complete opposite then. regular squats i use more glute and ham. front, i feel it more in the quads.

[Amorphic]

The biggest thing I notice about front squats is it trashes my glutes/hammies much faster then my quads (I go ass to ankles)..

I felt a lot more ham today than usual, dont know if it was because of the front squats though.

i'll have to do it more and find out which type works what better.

[C_Bino]

The biggest thing I notice about front squats is it trashes my glutes/hammies much faster then my quads (I go ass to ankles)..

You may be doing them wrong imo. Utilizing front squats will actually target the front and lower region of you leg much more.
The closer the weight is towards the front of your feet, the more you begin to work the front and lower portion of your leg.

For example, if you use leg press and put youe feet very high up and use your heels to push you will be utitlizing more semi membranosus and semi tendinosus in your hams, then you move your feet in a bit more to hit biceps femorous. Lowering your feet more will hit your vastus lateralis and vastus intermedius of your quad. Bring you feet all the way down to use your tose almost to push through and you will be hitting your vastus medialis this most (aka tear drop muscle)

Thats why people still put 10 plates under their heels on squats, this way you push through more the front of your feet and hit more of the quads and less hams.

It's an anatomical fact, so if you feel front squats more in your hams my guess is you may be using a smith machine and the weight isnt over your toes or you are just over compensating with your hams because the weight is too heavy for your quads. This used to happen to me.

[novastepp]

You may be doing them wrong imo. Utilizing front squats will actually target the front and lower region of you leg much more.
The closer the weight is towards the front of your feet, the more you begin to work the front and lower portion of your leg.

For example, if you use leg press and put youe feet very high up and use your heels to push you will be utitlizing more semi membranosus and semi tendinosus in your hams, then you move your feet in a bit more to hit biceps femorous. Lowering your feet more will hit your vastus lateralis and vastus intermedius of your quad. Bring you feet all the way down to use your tose almost to push through and you will be hitting your vastus medialis this most (aka tear drop muscle)

Thats why people still put 10 plates under their heels on squats, this way you push through more the front of your feet and hit more of the quads and less hams.

It's an anatomical fact, so if you feel front squats more in your hams my guess is you may be using a smith machine and the weight isnt over your toes or you are just over compensating with your hams because the weight is too heavy for your quads. This used to happen to me.

good post Bino. that's really good info.

[Narkissos]

The biggest thing I notice about front squats is it trashes my glutes/hammies much faster then my quads (I go ass to ankles)..

For me it isn't a matter of 'faster'.. but almost equally.

Additionally, because i, like you, go ass-to-ground on these, they rape my spinal erectors.

...Namely because the erectors are contracted statically tru-out this extensive range-of-motion.

-CNS

[legobricks]

do you feel like you get a better workout with traditional style squats vs the front?

i seem to feel more stress on my leg muscles and better pumps with the front position

Wow thats weird bro, I just switched over to front squats for the same exact reason as you did. I also feel the front squat is working my legs WAY better than the traditional squat with less stress on my knees/lower back. Also get way better pumps too!

[Amorphic]

Wow thats weird bro, I just switched over to front squats for the same exact reason as you did. I also feel the front squat is working my legs WAY better than the traditional squat with less stress on my knees/lower back. Also get way better pumps too!