Do You Know These 7 Reasons Why You Should Front Squat?

By Caleb Lee

I can nearly guarantee you're not front squatting enough or to some extent. For some reason, you don't see several gym goers (mostly bodybuilders) utilizing this time-tested training.

Crossfit has gone miles and miles towards bringing it back, but if you're not doing crossfit - it's most likely not even on your radar.

This is a shame because if you want to get full body strength build awesome quads chisel your abs and save your "tweaked" lower back then you're going to love the front squat.

Here's 2 reasons why you must front squat for a stronger, bigger, more powerful body that moves, looks, and feels better than ever:

1. Get Better Quads - The front squat is an EXCELLENT movement to get bigger, stronger quads-probably the best exercise there is. Because you're position is more upright, it emphasizes the quads more.

2. Get Stronger, More Cut Abs (Core) - Because you're holding the weight in front of your body, and you must remain upright your entire core gets a great workout trying to stabilize the weight and keep you upright. If you find you're leaning forward a lot when you back squat, you'll quickly get stronger and fix this problem if you switch to front squats for a while.

Front squats aren't just great for building a hard body with muscles of steel either! They're also really good at just making you more fit and keeping you more fit. What good is looking strong if you must sacrifice your health in the process?

Here's the five additional reasons why you must Front Squat for better physical condition:

1. Makes Your Other Lifts Better - Because the bar is placed ahead of you, on your shoulders, the front squat is enormously like other exercises and strengthens the "base" of those lifts/presses. Power Cleans, Overhead Presses, Overhead Squats, and so on all share the same "starting" position as the front squat. Getting stronger and more comfortable with Front Squats will help you in those exercises as well.

2. Bad Form Gets Self-Corrected - If you're back squatting with bad form you can wrap up the exercise at the cost of causing harm to yourself. The advantage about front squats is the form is self correcting: If you're not straight enough you'll drop the bar if you're not holding the bar properly you'll drop it if you don't keep your elbows up you'll drop it. It's a training that pretty much forces your form to be smashing.

3. Less Weight - Generally speaking, if you can urge your body with less weight (because you're doing a harder workout) then it is safer. Since the Front Squat is harder than Back Squats you won't be able to lift as much weight. Which means a lesser amount of spinal compression.

4. More Natural Spine Position - You're more upright with the front squat your spine is in a more nonaligned "straight" position. This combined with the fact you're lifting a reduced amount of weight is better for your spine at the end of the day.

5. Lower Back Approved - Nearly everyone have lower back problems and back squats worsen these conditions. But because your upper body is normally straight (rather than leaning forward like in a back squat) there's a reduced amount of force on your lower back. I started front squatting when I hurt my lower back. - 17268

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