How to Hack Squat to Grow Quads and get HUGE Quad Sweep with Hypertrophy Coach 

1:46 Tip #1: Set your stance 5:06 Tip #1.5: Play with width 6:28 Tip #2: Push through the platform 7:22 Tip #3: Lock it in stone

The cues in this video have opened a whole new world of opportunity to bring pain to my legs. I can barely walk today. I am a 45 year old man trying to overcome my body being ruined from sitting at a computer terminal for 20+ years. I'm so fucking happy, I am not sure if my tears are from the pain of trying to walk or from finally achieving the dream goal of growing my legs back to my pre-career level. Gluing my pelvis to the back of the pad and bracing my lower core has allowed me to engage my quads in a new way. There are three distinct muscles in your quads and if you have any hip or pelvic issues, such as lower-cross syndrome, you are not actively working the full range of muscles. This video has helped me find a path to overcoming my skeletal-muscular issues. When your brain processes a trainer's sage advice and can put the cues into action... they can change a man's life.

I see so many trainers missing all of these things. Awesome stuff here man.

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Looking forward to legs tomorrow. Thanks Joe👊🏽

This was so helpful! I never do hack squats and now I feel prepared. Thanks for the great video

Thanks! I "love" hack squats and want to improve my sweep, so this is perfect!

One of the most valuable channel in this business! Thanks for all infos! 🥇

The best video I’ve seen on hack squat. Thank you for this.

for the algorithms and beyond!! thanks joe!!

DUDE! AWESOME CHANNEL. Thanks for putting out real info

Fab. Just started using this machine. This was super helpful. 💫

thanks for the tips man really gives an advantge on the training and makes mor efficient traning

Awesome as always. Thank you

Great video as always!

Looking forward to this video!

deym just got what i was looking for very helpful! 👌

Thank you for addressing your sweat. I was so confused why this huge physically fit man was all sweaty.

Thanx for the tips, i dig it!

Great video man!

Great pointers thx!

Hey man, I really appreciate this review. They just got a hack squat machine at my gym. I’ve been trying to get my foot placement and form correct. I appreciate your detailed explanation.

Great video, always

Excellent tips sir, thank you 😊

The most informative video on hacks, thank you.

Excellent detailed instruction.

Needed this video and didn’t even know it 🙏🏾

Such a great vid. 🙏🏻

Great tips!

Video doesn't start until 1:57

Wat an detailed explanation, I hv NVR seen like this before

Best instruction for this exercise…thank you. Could you do one for the freemotion Hack?

Great tips. I’ve only just started back to legs, after a long time off. My knees are in bits so really limits what I can do

always love these videos man. might have to do these with those anabolic socks (this is from a instagram comment i made XD)

Great explanation. I am new to this excersise

Love u man

Awesome content Joe as always.... Is it any way to fix that in a home gym? I feel like back squats are not really doing the job

Top notch!

Love the shirt 🏴

Great video.

I believe Joe is by far one of the Very best in the field!

Thanks for your conten all time 👍👍

How this guy hasn’t got more subscribers blows my mind

Great content

Thank youuu coach

Just discovered the hack squat and its amazing. My legs have never been trained so hard in my life, i can take them to absolute failure and they just grow.

Nice quads!

Awesome! So helpful. I decided to try the hack squat machine for the first time ever and got humbled. I thought I could surely squat my normal BB sqauts/leg press weights but could barely do a single 45 plate. It's so damn awkward

Brilliant. Can you do one for pendulum squats?

I'm trainer from Brasil. Thank you man

GOD BLESS YOU 💯😈

Love the Step Brothers reference. Lol

I still don't get how this channel isn't popular. great stuff

Thx so much

I've been doing squats/hack squats for 6 months (since I started lifting) and have never felt my quads activate. Leg day today and I will definitely follow this advice.

I like doing hack squats because its hard to do but always had problems with the stance

I have only done front squats with this machine and I love them. With knee wraps I can actually do them. I am 4.5 months post double torn meniscus and I did not do the surgery..went with physical therapy , to my own strengthening program, and now I’m incorporating weights. I can’t do leg raise machines and can only do leg raises with bands if my legs are locked out. I’m really nervous to use this machine for a hack squat and until your video I was going to put my feet up high. I’m actually on my way to go try this workout for the first time ever today. It looks safer than a leg press for knees. I’m going to try to do as much range as possible but not Sure I’ll be able to start with it. May have to work my way into it as I get stronger. Any thoughts?

Any chance you could do another video on the pendulum squat?

Turd here reporting for duty! Tips start at 1:45. Watch the beginning though so you know the latest on ESPN 18

Please do a pendulum squat one too Joe

Lovely content as per usual. I see you've added some extra pads to the pads of the hacksquat for added range, I presume. I've usually opted for adding the extra depth through adding plates to the plateau I'm standing on, which, quite honestly, isn't an optimal solution. So here's an idea for a future video: "Tips and tricks to accommodate your shitty equipment". A video (series?) wherein you delve a little into certain tips and tricks that can help turn shitty equipment (and thereby shitty exercise, so to speak) into top-tier equipment (I expect royalties and a shout out). Keep trucking, love to see the growth of the channel. Makes me genuinely happy! Also: enjoyed your podcast with John Jewett quite a lot, and really think you should do more of that :)

Thanks for the video bro. One question. Why is the band the opposite way round. Shouldnt it expand on your way up? This way you have more weight when you are at bottom position. Isnt that more risky?

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The subscribers count going up slowly but steadily

So sad most commercial gyms dont have a hacksquat

I watched the whole first part.

Noice !!!

Love your info and do your eyebrows for next time 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Joe do you have an opinion on the V squat machine? My gym does not have a hack squat unfortunately.

hi, could you please make a video about how to perform this exercise facing the pad for the quadriceps, there is a hack machine that has pads that allow you to work in that way, but I have a shoulder injury that prevents me from using my arms to hold the side handles, so I can only use my shoulders to push upwards causing me a lot of distress on my trapezius and shoulders, I can´t do back squats, front squats either, that is why I have been trying to work my quads in this fashion. I´m 63 and I´ve lifting weights for 41 years, and I feel that if I Don´t do some kind of squats I Would eventually lose a lot of muscle,any advice?. thank you in advance

i spent the longest time trying to heel drive a hack squat. was such a waste of training time until i started using full foot pressure "tripod" and smashing the feet through it, as Joe said. all of a sudden my quads were firing properly

I like this guy

I thought you were Gandolf’s friend the forest wizard!

My hack squat at my gym is adjustable on the incline ,what degree angle do u think is best to set it up on

How many warm up sets do you recommend and at how much lighter than working weight?

tom platz did hack squat with his feet literally together.extreme narrow stance and boy we know how his quads turned out . its on youtube.

So I added a foam roller behind my back and learned forward way way easier on my knees but … it feels like a leg press and once I use a hack squat back against the pad can’t do much weight but I feel it all the way to top of my thighs to my hips I been gluts and putter hamstrings I feel the whole stretch

I always feel like I'm doing hack squats wrong my knees feel more pain then anything

Do you always use bands for hack squat or is it only variation? I like to use them becouse my knees feel alot better but im wondering if im missing something this way

Do these tips work just the same for the V squat machine?

Where can I buy those shorts? And do they come in black?

Might be a stupid question but why do you have exercise bands strapped to the machine. Does this not just reduce the weight ?

I feel the load so much in my knees ? Any tips for that?

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So you do or you do not want to feel like your toes are going through the front of your shoes? Forgive me for missing that.

it’s fucking up my knee so bad… like the tendon tying from the top of my knee cap to the bottom feels like it’s gonna snap if I go too hard too fast. Especially on lighter weight..

Your leg day with Terrence Ruffin is typically hamstring focused to prioritize both of your goals. Can you do/or discuss a quad focused leg day for those of us with SpongeBob quads.

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Thinking you should shoot the next video while leaving the nose strip on!

Someone please let me know what shoes those are!

Why do I feel all squats in my glutes and hamstrings ..

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You're better than Coach Greg

Nice video !But i dont know how could i put hack Squat in my workout. As a first ( basic) excersice or after?

I’ve been hack squatting with a foam roller behind my upper back. It takes a lot of pressure of my lower back. I’m not sure if this is beneficial for training though. Could you do some content explaining the positives and negatives of this?

I find my lower back wobbles around too much in this exercise

I dont have access to a hack squat machine so I use the Smith machine as a substitute. Generally how far forward should I place my feet compared to a normal free weight barbell squat

Keeping your feet low on the platform will restrict how deep you can squat however you will be targeting your quads to the max because keeping your feet low on the platform will ensure your knees going way over your toes, activating the quads maximally.

Man your brain is big

Does the hack squat carry over to the back squat? Because I did it yesterday and I can BB squat more but I've noticed that most ppl can hack squat more than the BB squat.

How much should the bands be assisting at the bottom of the rep? 5%, 10%, 15%+ of total weight? I know its dependent on the individual and total load used but a ballpark for what you use so I can adjust from there