The Front Squat with Mark Rippetoe 

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Interesting point, but the cue to get the back tight that Rip uses is "chest up". "Elbows up" is so you don't drop the weight

@@iii-ei5cv right….so one cue instead of two cues.

Andre Ledo keep the bar nipple height

that's called a zercher squat

Andre Ledo lmao

Squat university does good one too @squatuniversity

Scott Smith no need to be quiet. Make all the noise you want.

@@luptonpittman6520 You are a bad man

He never said they wouldn't make you stronger nor did he say they were useless as an accessory. He just said he doesn't use them in his program because low bar produces more force. Simple. Do what works for you.

these a great for people with really bad backs

I do em cus i aint have no Squat rack

@@commissarvigil4806 that is a very sad gym mate

His problem is not letting his knees travel forward. I had the same butt wink and learned to correct it.

This is a good solution for the front squat or high bar squat, but doing a low bar squat for power means you cannot afford enough of a wider stance to completely eliminate the pelvic tilt. A little buttwink is not an issue as long as you maintain spine neutrality. Now, how to eliminate that one guy always crying about your form instead of correcting his own?

Flexing my spine in the back squat gave me a lower back injury. At this moment my back still can not handle heavy weight. But it is getting better though. I found out that i have poor hip mobility. When you don't have enough mobility in the hips you compensate with the lower back. Seated good mornings help with this because that is the position you will find yourself in when your in the lower part of the back squat. I am also doing high rep Front Squat now. It took some learning to get the techniek down. But i have really fallen in love with that exercise, as much as previously with the back squat.

When you squat for abs...

chin ups and deadlifts works the abs much more

If your goal is to prevent flexion in your core, then how is it working your abs?

@@Luke41lol That's right!!

Trevor isometric movement.

I alternate since I squat 2x/week right now.

When did they flare? Pulling the bar down into your back?

@@thegreatguy3829 i'm a slim guy so to keep tightness in my upper back I have to bring my hands well in to hold the bar, which then places more stress on the elbows during the whole of the set. However, since I posted my comment I've adopted a slightly more vertical posture and do a kind of hybrid between a low-bar and high bar squat which allows me to widen m grip slightly and seems to also alleviate the elbow pain.

Thruster are you referring to hip thrust?

@@imlashn7677 Lmao. It’s a CrossFit movement. Check it out on RU-vid or google.

@@jinluwang5671 ??? What? Thrusters are a crossfit specific movement? tf?

Some people like to dive bomb their squats

Totally agree. I think that guy should also get his front rack position sorted out before actually squatting. He's using his hands to support the weight instead of his shoulders. The bar should be against the neck, with the fingertips as a stopper. Just smoked a little tonight and wanted to criticize the coaching of a legend who knows way more than I do about proper weightlifting form.

Yeah i learned this the hard way and herniated my disc because I have a weak core and my back always fell into flexion. I had no idea and now I’m working to rehabilitate it.

I agree. I thought his squats were garbage.

i thought the same! looks dodgy

Shoulder width heels and toes pointing outward is better for achieving depth for people with long backs and certain hip joint angles (every body has a different length of hip bone and a different angle it enters the hip socket). There is no extra torque on the knees or hips to go outward than it is to go straightforward. In fact I think there is less torque on the knee joint to go outward than there is to go directly forward for most people.

I know this sounds like bro science, but learn the proper form like shoulder width and 30 degree toe angle etc., and let the body do the work. It'll automatically adjust to your structure well considering the general outline of that excercise.

Yeah lol think that they know it all.

No...torso will lean forward and you'll be prone to dumping the bar

Yes. That's what he said at the start of the video and what is in the book.

Whitefang8128 Ok. So I shouldn't do front squats at all then since I don't plan to compete in olympic lifting? Some people said it'll help in core development as well as practicing the catch position in the power clean, which is one of the lifts on SS.

Hassan Raza Front squats don't help "practice the catch position in the power clean" (hips above parallel with the knees). They help train you to drive out of the bottom of a full clean (hips below parallel with the knees). If you're not training the full (or squat) clean, you don't need to train the front squat. They do help train the core, but so does every correctly performed barbell movement.

Helps with good back posture.

Hassan Raza if you are doing "power" clean, you never reach the bottom of the clean because a power clean is a "above parallel squat" clean, so dont need to front squatting. But if you train for sports, do them because they have better transfer.

you seem to be suffering from either: A) major muscle imbalances or B) form isn't quite right on the front squat

Tell me about it. Mine is 65/195

Could be an imbalance or the fact that he's figured out a certain limb is longer. Klokov has the same thing. When he lifts one of his feet is position in front of the other and toes pointed out.

Come' on, now the US is colonizing everyone. Old habits die hard, don't they ?

For heyyp draave!

cheesedips what did Louie say?

I would say it uses less low back. You will be keeping your torso more veritcle in order to keep the bar from rolling off of your shoulders. I always feel front squats in abs more than my back.

Front squats work low back very little but hit upper back really hard

It's not so much how intense the muscle works as much as it is how much leverage the lower position provides mechanically. The weight is more centered and less forward on the lever (the back itself). Image lifting a 10 lbs weight which is at the end of a one foot rod verses lifting the same 10 lbs on the end of a three foot rod. The extra length will decrease your leverage. Same with a front squat. It lengthens the lever which is lifting the weight. Put the same weight on your back in a high bar position and you shorten the lever. Put the same weight in a low bar position and it is shortened even more. You're still recruiting your back muscles in all three. If anything you recruit them more to maintain a high chest in front squat. But the leverage advantage of even a couple inches when dealing with hundreds of pounds is huge in the low bar back squat.

German Krohn than

It's hard to tell rounding from goin from extended to straight. With back squats it looks like rounding when it actually just straightens out from extension

"Buttwink" is not an in issue as long as the back does not lose neutrality. The pelvis just needs more clearance at the bottom of the squat for some of the more "hippy" people.

It's just because it's only the bar and rip just wants to demonstrate the key components of the movement, back angle, depth, and hip drive

At first you will feel a lot of soreness. But after a while your body will get used to it. Just build up the volume and weight slowly.

You got that backwards. Or are you being sarcastic?

If that’s what SHE said, she might be a he.

@@MrRolyat98 Lol

..Ahajaj!

"The drive is from the hips" *proceeds to point directly at the lumbar spine*

His ankle ROM is fine, it's his excessive anterior pelvic tilt he can't maintain during decent, it goes from ant. tilt to posterior tilt, he most likely has tight hip flexors and deep hip sockets.

@@jacobgasser377 Nothing is excessive. What he should consider is beginning the movement slightly forward of vertical. Not so much as to drop the bar, but just a hair forward will allow his femurs the pelvic clearance he needs. (notice his back angle is not vertical at the bottom). Beginning vertical just causes him to "snake" around his pelvis as he descends which gives it a funny look and would disrupt him during a heavier lift.

After going to an olympic coach I switched to high bar squats, never looked back after that point