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Barbell Front Squat

Muscles worked

  • Quadrizeps
  • Hip Adductors
  • Gluteus
  • Quadratus Lumborum
  • Long Calf
  • Short Calf
  • Calf (Gastrocnemius)
  • Calf (Soleus)

Equipment

Barbells
Barbells
Weight Plates
Weight Plates

Form Cues

  • Place the barbell on your deltoids close to your throat

  • Keep the elbows high the whole time to avoid the barbell rolling down

  • Step into a comfortable roughly hip wide stance

  • Brace your core, keep the back engaged

  • Lower slowly by breaking at the hip and knees

  • Squat down as deep as you are comfortable, never squat into pain

  • Maintain a very upright toros

  • Pause briefly at the bottom

  • Come up with control

  • Avoid the knees dropping in or back rounding a the bottom (butt wink)

Common mistakes

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