Is the Front Squat better for general athleticism than the lowbar back squat?
I want to be stronger, and more athletic (faster, more explosive, more enduring etc). Is the Front Squat a good choice over the lowbar? I'm already at "intermediate" level with my lowbar backsquat.
>(faster, more explosive, more enduring etc). I
i thnk you should be doing oly lifts for this
do both
yes
Is there some sort of thing preventing you to do both?
It's something I'm considering, but I want to get some coaching on the lifts first.
The aforementioned traits aren't the only things I care about tho, I still wanna be strong as a bull
I'm planning on a Juggernaut Method cycle soon, I might do one cycle (16 weeks) with the front squat, and then do one with lowbar.
Or maybe during the higher rep phases I'll do Front Squat, and in the lower rep phases I'll do lowbar.
Is the Front Squat better for the OHP?
Yes
.>Front Squat
>i thnk you should be doing oly lifts
what the fuck
don't bother. front squats only. back squat is a waste of time unless you have plateaued
Lowbar for hammies, front for glutes
dumbass
Am I missing out on anything from missing lowbar?
Are you implying he's wrong? At worst he's just off-topic
Not if you do deadlifts, I don't think. These exercises exist on a sprectrum of knee and hip hinging front bar, high bar back, low bar back, deads. I personally high bar is better than low bar
Actually I thought he said quads. Now I realize he said glutes I don't agree anymore
I'll be doing sumo for my main DL.
his knees are way too forward, what a fuckwit
The high-bar back squat is superior to both the front squat and the low bar back squat.
Oly lifting is great, but the movements are rather advanced
Sumo pulling is a meme and is also cheating
I don't care about "cheating" or any meme shit like that as I'm not a competor.
Sumo feels better for me, and is more similar to how I pick things up in real life.
>is the front squat better than the lowbar back squat
yes
>is the front squat better than the highbar back squat
no, take oly lifters for example, every last one of them do a hell lot more back squats than front squats
>The high-bar back squat is superior to both the front squat and the low bar back squat.
Incorrect for this question. For athletics, front squat is all you need for a good long while to build explosiveness, strength and co-ordination.
back squats basically just for checking on your overall strength and/or ego lifts
OP here. I'm going to train highbar/front squat during higher volume blocks, then lowbar during intensity blocks
well that's not fucking true
that's the worst possible idea.
>good thing you're not OP
look it up, ofcourse oly lifters do other things than just the back squat, but you won't find a single oly lifter that does more front squats than back squats
or if you mean that if the highbar is better, also look it up, im not saying that the low bar is useless or that you shouldn't do it, but the highbar back squat is simply better because you can't do a full rom with a low bar wich you can with a highbar and ofcourse full rom is better, the front squat is better than the lowbar back squat because of the same reason, but is still inferior to the higbar back squat because you can't load as much weight on the front squat as with the highbar back squat
I did some research and you're correct, most weightlifters do use the back squat as their primary strength movement. My b
both. you're only as strong as your weakest link.
yes. i'm a lanklet that struggles with squats and the front squat is the mother of all lifts. works so many things and the hard parts of the hips and the abs and core.
>OHP
>Front squat
>weighted pullup
the trinity of power. absolute best compound exercises.
Fuck lowbar. I do highbar twice a week and front squats once a week. For posterior chain focused lifts, I do conventional DLs and RDLs.
It’s all about specificity. If you have a specific sport you play, focus on the squat that most closely mimics the body position of that sport. If you don’t, it doesn’t really matter. Developing power, speed, explosiveness, endurance etc is better done through the quick lifts (clean snatch jerk and their variants) and through controlling intensity and rep schemes (speed work at 50-70% 1RM, endurance sets of 12-20 reps, etc). Also push the prowler if you want athletic conditioning.
That said, you lose nothing by training all 3 squats.
he has knock knees i believe, its excellent tech considering his morphology
Front squat and trap bar deads for athletic performance
You want knees to be as far forward as possible. Knees further forward means you need to lean over less. Especially important for front squats where you need to stay upright to keep the bar in place, but also important for regular squats as well, simply because the less you have to leverage your back, the stronger position your core/torso are in.
The entire point of squat shoes is to increase effective angle flexibility and allow knees to come further forward.
In my 13th week of Juggernaut method. DO NOT swap exercises. Follow the program or the progression will not work.
Chad actually recommends (and does himself)doing highbar squats during the hypertrophy stages.
He also says you can do different variants of the main lifts, granted you do them for at least two waves.