Squat everyday Day 1050: Are front squats more impressive?
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Klokov and Clarence both sitting in a deep squat with 250kg in their front rack and then standing up was just insane
Yeh man
I started doing ATG because of you. My max dropped quite a bit until I got acclimated, but it felt so much better on my knees after. The tendons and ligaments in the knees are stretched, but the full extent of the tension is relieved when at the bottom. It also engages my quads more. Which has been a prior weak muscle group of mine.
There you go man.
Well done
If I could only do 1 exercise for the rest of my life it'd be the front squat. The leg and upper back development is just insane. The best bang for your buck exercise there is.
any tips for building wrist mobility for front squats? I've started doing them a month ago and wrist pain is the limiting factor right now
@@anthonyvanadia5489 instead of gripping the bar with all of ur fingers you can try to just grip with the 3 middle fingers like a eagle
@@Baris2gs cool thank you
@@anthonyvanadia5489 I would start with basic wrist mobility excercise on the floor, I found them pretty helpful.
Also there are certain progressions with the front rack position which you can start with. It would be really hard to start with your whole wrist under the bar so you can start off with just a two fingers or so. Eventually you will be putting all five fingers and then as you get used to it, you will be covering more and more with your wrist. It's just a matter of time and practice imo.
Also griping the bar wider thus your elbows are more to the side helps a lot as well I think. And working on shoulder mobility with a stick or a band by doing shoulder dislocations will help you get into a better, more stable and upright position which is less taxing on your wrists. But take all of this with a grain of salt, I am not an elite lifter or coach. Good luck
@@anthonyvanadia5489 I'm double jointed in my wrists, so can't really help. I guess the only thing I can think of is doing reverse hand push ups to build up wrist mobility.
I can totally relate about chasing difficulty rather than numbers. FOR THE DIFFICULT ;)
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The biggest advantage of front squat for me is that I could train it alongside deadlifts without significant fatigue carryover on deadlifts, whereas if I do backsquat before deadlifts, my deadlifts will be trashed
Yeh that’s right. It’s a such a good combo to deadlifts.
I admire how you never use a belt. Even those damn pin squats and deficit deadlifts are done beltless.
Yeh that’s the only way I know how
Belt is there to teach you about core engagement.
@@IvanDjuric300 Is there a specific reason you still use straps for deadlift singles? It seems to be the one lift you don't try to make as difficult as possible. Maybe you've mentioned it before, but I missed it.
@@merrieleiderman1885 presumably to keep it a double overhead grip even at heavier weights
@@merrieleiderman1885 I had the same question, he said it's because he needs his hands for nursing; hence the straps.
I cut out back squats altogether. 3 months into front squats only, couldn’t be happier. Your videos had a role in my decision. Thanks
Nice man. Would be nice to hear if you back squat goes up after just doing front squats.
@@IvanDjuric300 I'm planning to do a year of front squats, have some goals set for my birthday in June. I'll report back
@@BreadAndGatorade looking forward to it
@@BreadAndGatoradeIt's approaching, how has it been going?
Crazy timing. After shying away from the front squat I got consistent with it in the last 2 months and I quickly became my favourite. Nothing beats the feeling of your trunk bracing to get out the hole
Yeh man. Glad to hear you’re at it too
I feel you Ivan.
I've recently started using hook grip and front squatting.
Something about the hard route
Respect man
Damn right man the front squat is the real test of balance and power, cant cheat that lift. Love the session as always man! Cheers!
Cheers man
I started doing front squats because back squats were causing my left hand to go numb due to a pinched nerve. Now it's probably become my favourite exercise.
Respect. Yeh once you get over the initial pains, front squats are awesome.
Love it! Everyday after uni I come home and go on Yt and i get my daily dose of content. Just a question man...have you ever thought of squatting or deadlifting with your socks or barefoot shoes or something like that.
Cheers man.
Yeh I have. I like that idea except it does limit you. Last thing I need is to worry about stepping on something and injuring the foot. I feel we need some protection for feet.
Kloko pause squat 250kg is incredible, his toes were pointed pretty much straight ahead too.
Absolutely monster squat
I started front squatting this year. I can't sqaut as heavy as my back squat but front squatting is better on back and core.
Your routine is impressive. Keep squatting my friend.
Thanks man.
Keep at it. You’ll get more and more comfortable with the front squat.
There is no bounce with a pause squat. So that’s an absolutely useless point if they think pause ATG is easier than parallel squats. They are not. I’ve done plenty of both in the 6 years I’ve been squatting. Pause ATG squats are far, far more difficult than parallel squats any day of the week.
Yeh definitely
Harder/more challenging is always more attractive to me. I can so relate to you, man. Training like a pro athlete is just amazing.I am all in or nothing kind of a guy too.
Respect man
honestly would be incredible to see 200kg front squat! ridiculous, looking forward to it. i just hit 160 yesterday @80kg no belt so I've improved 60 kg this year, and the primary inspiration has been Olympic lifters, and this channel. your amazing man 200 flipin FS record slowmo that, please. plus in slowmo you see where you may jump the gun, hips rise, weight shift etc
Yeh man that would be insane to me. 200kg front squats definitely sounds good.
A slow mo vid sounds great too. Good idea.
brother 60kg in 1 year at 80 BW is insane! congratulations! any tips man haha - programmes or squat every day? love hearing what works for some people - Leo Ortiz who squats every day [ has a cool channel ] said sum deadlifts shot his squat up. very interesting.
I envy your dept on the squats. I know Its a matter of practice, but as I watch I learn. Keep it up Ivan 💪🏾
Thank you man.
You’ll get there. Just stay at it.
I actually laughed out loud when you talked about first time using hook grip, thinking you're gonna lose your thumbs. It was the same for me and I've heard a lot of weightlifters say the same thing. like you said, It really doesn't take long to get used to, 1 to 2 months practice and you'll never look back. I use hook grip for everything, shopping bags/trolley, laundry basket, frying pan and spatula lol it's just superior!
Fr man i was unconsciously hookgripping the bar on bench when I used to bench
@@nontextless don't blast your heavy triples if you haven't used hookie before. Try doing all your warm up sets using hook grip then revert back to what you know. Over time you'll use more and more hookie before wondering why you never used it sooner.
My two cents, anyways 😘
@@nontextless exactly what Subpar said. Use it for your warm up sets first until it feels comfortable. Focus on getting index and middle fingers over your thumb. Use chalk and you can even use a wrap of elastic tape on your thumb if it helps. I still use straps when I go for a PR. People with small hands naturally find it difficult. Use a 28mm thickness bar and stay away from a 32mm. It's always uncomfortable at the beginning, but don't give up on it
Hahaha loved that. Hook gripping everything.
Really appreciate you sharing the grind with us. I just got back into a good routine of working out every morning and now that I’m about a month into it, I’ve been having some chest pain. Went to the doctor and turns out I have pulmonary edema. Feels like there’s always an obstacle keeping me from being my best. Hoping I can get past this one quick and keep moving
Take care of that first man. All the best. You’ll be back to training soon.
It's gonna be a blessed Monday! 🙌🏾
Respect
For the algo.
Klokov was blowing minds with those paused squats and behind the neck presses back in the 2010s.
Yeh I know man
Can't agree more, it is indeed an upper body exercise as much as it is for lower body. Best bang for anyones buck.
And It makes you powerful too. Lifting stuff from the floor feels much lighter when you have front squats on your program.
Yeh man that’s for sure
I definitely feel more real world carry over with front squats than any other exercise.
As the Bloatlord himself says, we train for the difficult. I thought i was a masochist for liking movements that challenge me but turns out i ain't alone hehe
I also do weird things like gripping the bar without my thumbs when doing rows just to get a sick forearm pump
Hahaha respect man. Love that
When my front squat went from 295 to 365, my back squat went from high 300s to 440
Respect man
Seriously? Thats insane.
I like front squats more because if there's one lift i never see people do its a front squat so there was a day i told myself "Imma be that guy thats really good at this" Since then ive been the only dude I know of in the gym that front squatted 140kg and thats a cool thought to have
Respect man
working on front squatting 315 lbs (142kg) by my birthday in March. I'll be 53. If I don't get it by then I will at some point after God willing. Definitely my favorite leg movement
Respect. All the best man. Absolutely a pleasure to hear it. Keep training
@@IvanDjuric300 thanks for the vids and motivation!
I’ve dropped heavy back squat for the time to focus on heavy front squats and supplementing with ATG pause back squats with lighter percentages. I’m excited to see how much my squat improves when I do go back to focus on back squats primarily
Nice man. Let me know how it goes.
it's only recently that i started to love the front squat like around the end of last year , The front squat feels so rewarding because i go ATG each rep unlike my hybrid back squat where i go just hams barely touching my calves and the difference in the loads shows for sure .
How much less do you front squat compared to your back squat?
@@yannickm1396 it used to be a lot less but last 3 month of training it was about the same frequency between front and back, Also my max now is 120kg ATG fs and 170kg back squat barely hitting depth to be honest but my ATG Beltless bs is 140kg
@@tariqo16
That is not to bad. I read that front squat should be around 75 or 80% of back squat. What would you do for a five by five on those lifts? I read and know from my own experience that 5x5 usually is with a weight of about 75% of 1rm.
My strength is (or was) very comparable to yours. At the moment i am 10 months out from a lower back injury caused by back squatting. Probably from butwing caused by stif hips. Just before my lower back injury i could back squat 130kg for 7 sets of 5 reps with good form. But with 135kg i starded to get a good morning pattern. Most i ever back squated is 160kg but was probably able to squat 170kg. About 2 months after my lower back injury i started front squating. I'm loving it now. Only am doing high volume with light weight at the moment though. 2 to 4 months in i was able to do 3x10 with 70kg with front squats. I also did 10x10 with 60kg at that time. Than i stopped because i still had some lower back pain. Back at it for a while now and today i did 155 reps with 50kg (15×10). I also have good cardio so did not find it to hard. In the past i always back squated with a belt. For front squats i don't use one.
I also have a video from a few weeks before my lower back injury. There i back squated 130kg for 5x5 with 8 reps on the last set. If your interested you can find it on my instagram under the name of yannick_mager.
@@tariqo16
Sorry for my bad english by the way. I am dutch.
@Yannick M your English is better than mine dude so you're fine, And yeah just like you i did find that article or qoura answer with the front squat to back to deadlift ratio, also can't say it's accurate for me . Unlike like you i can't do as many rep's with weights but my maxxing out abilities are good so i can't do 5x5 with 75% no way at all and that goes for every other lift i do from bench to deadlift and like i mentioned already the squat whether front or back. You mentioned noticing a good morning pattern during squats which resonated with me a lot and if you managed that 130 5x5 with that same good morning squat pattern that's truly impressive.
I used to think olympic lifters had massive upper backs and traps from the pull in the clean and snatch, but after incorporating front squats and not doing the full lifts, my upper back has exploded.
Yeh man. I was surprised to find that out too.
Totally agree with you...front squat ATG is more athletic than BS ,but without negligence of the importance of BS...I tried a block cycle of front for a year and for the first time retuning to back squat I did. 5*5 my old pr ... imagine the amount of POWER, mobility I have become
Wow that’s crazy man. Great to hear that. So it carried over really well.
I feel more “beast mode” when I do heavy front squats. I always avoided them but recently started doing them and have grown to like them.
Respect man. I agree. They feel amazing.
heavy ass front squats take some savage fucking strength man. shit feels like youre gonna pop your traps off the bone
Hahaha yeh man. It’s pure war
I used to think about making things harder so I can have extra parameters to make myself feel better to be not as strong as other people. I no longer thing this way and I've accepted that I am not better than other folks and it made my mind much better.
Fair enough. Whatever works I guess. We are all different.
I always prefer front squats, they are harder and I find them more athletic overall. And I also more beneficial for me. I feel like they are more technical ten back squats in some ways and they also helped me a lot with wrist mobility. I squat only 1 or 2 times a week, so if I have time for squats I always do front squats. My goal was to do 100kg this year and I hit it for 2 reps in July.
Nice man. Well done. Keep it up. It’s a beast of a movement.
I've ever only done back squats until I got a hip injury. Now coming back to squatting I could feel my hip joint barely be able to back squat to parallel but I could ass to grass front squats without any issues and it feels great. As a bonus you also get some upper body training with them as well :)
Yeh that’s the biggest surprise of it all. It trains the upper back so well man.
@@IvanDjuric300 According to a study from journals.lww the erector spinae is even unexpectedly activated more with front squats than with back squats. Not something i would have thought.
Hello Ivan. I have the same mindset as you. I enjoy grinding the hard stuff. The only difference is that I squat with weightlifting shoes. Other than that nothing else. Greetings from Germany!
Respect man.
Cheers
Hola bro 👋 buen inicio de semana con muchas energías y bendiciones para ti saludos bro 🏋️👋🥇💯🏋️👏
Hey man. All the best man. Have a good one.
100% Front squat > Back squat. IMO its more aesthetic than back squat and I think as a whole front squats can turn you into an absolute unit. Also I think it pairs well if you're training deadlifts a lot and want to have a squat variation that compliments it well.
Yeh I think so too. It’s a great match for all these deadlift sessions I’m doing.
I’ve been doing heavy front rack holds and they hurt my collar bones but it makes my normal front squats feel so easy.
Yeh it gets better after a while
I find guys with long femurs squatting a lot of weight to be more impressive. Short femurs allow you to get really deep but often the total range of motion in terms of inches moved will be longer if you are taller with long femurs. Long femurs also put you in a really awkward position.
Long femurs just require better mobility
Justr curious Ivan do you train without any stimulants such as any type of caffeine ?
Nah I don’t take anything like that. No supps or stimulants.
nice front squat sessions❤
Cheers man
Agree with you man, front squats ftw
And remember boys, the front sqaut is the epitome of pride within an exercise. For the moment your chest falls, the moment your spirit breaks and you fall forward in shame, you fail the lift. The bar stays only with the prideful, the strong. Only men with the highest magnitude of pride may front sqaut the heaviest. ''I mogg therefore I am''
Hahahahah love that
i used to love frontsquats, but i passed out once mid rep with 3 plates on the bar, luckily i was in the rack with safeties up, but i still broke my left pinky finger, and completely shaved all skin off of it, haven't been mentally able to do heavy front squats since then
Damn man. That’s scary. I’ve definitely felt the dizziness with front squats. It’s like someone switches the lights off in the room. Not a good feeling.
What you are basically describing is “hard choices, easy life. Easy choices hard life”. Not using a belt is hard, but overdepending on a belt results in a weak core. Same could be said about using straps and hook grips in relation to grip strength
That’s it man
Ivan..have you found that front squats carryover to your back squat? In terms of helping to raise it?
Yeh I think so. It just depends what is the weakest link. After front squats. Back squats feel so damn easy and light. It’s crazy.
Yup
Are there people who backsquat 200 and can't frontsquat 100? Yes! Is there anyone who frontsquats 200 and can't backsquat more than 225? Probably not^^
Yeh that’s a good point.
Back squat has more power ! But front cool also. Tnx for videos, Your an animal, Cheers from Estonia !
Cheers man
i build my backsquat up with the frontsquat, cause 3 months ago i had some backpain during backsquats, they helped a lot, so for me a max frontsquats feels lighter than a max backsquat.
For me back squats feels so light after front squats.
I some point I was dreading doing back squat because of some strange reason, I liked FS more cause at least there I knew: well this is gonna suck, but a familiar suck
Ivan lowkey becoming a weightlifter
Hahaha
Crazy timing, in my last leg workout i wanted to try fronts for the first time in years. Put it on with weight and I felt incredibly weak although I have good upper body strength. It was just so uncomfortable so I quit and went to normal squats😂 definitely gonna jump that hurdle next time
Yeh you gotta give it some time. It will feel very uncomfortable for a week or so probably. It gets better as you go.
If I had the leverages and mobility to squat like Clarence I 100% would. Like you said it more aesthetic and imo it’s a greater demonstration of strength
Don’t let leverages stop you man
The hardest part of the front squat for me isn't bar placement on the collar bone. It's the bending of the friggin wrists. If I do it at the start of a workout, the wrists are wrecked for the bench press and everything else.
You can wrap straps around the bar and hold the end of the straps instead if you lack wrist mobility. Doesn't affect bar placement for the squat and saves your wrists for whatever lifts you may be doing next.
Cross your forearms and jam your pointer finger in between the bar and your shoulder/collarbone
Dude you need to roll out your forearms.
I think the wrists get used to it after a while. Just stay with it.
Hey Ivan have you ever trained squats with a pose on the bottom? I can't recal you doing that, have you thought doing parallel squads and atg to see if it would help with strength?
Yeh I be done alot of pause squats. Pause at the bottom, atg position. I’ve never trained pauses at any other height.
@@IvanDjuric300 Damn always respect those late responses bro no one else i know cares to go through so many comments. Would you do pose squats on any other height?
I give people a ton of credit who get up at 4.30 in the mornings and lift weights that’s dedication
Respect
First comment, 12 seconds after upload. I think that's a record
Hahaha respect man. Very quick.
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I wish they swapped the back squat for the front squat in powerlifting competitions. Imo, the front squat complements the deadlift better (deadlift: lower back and hamstrings, front squats: upper back and quads). Back squat feels more like a combination of the two. Another reason why I like front squats is that there is no vagueness in bar placement: just put it in front of the neck. You can't slide it down and create low-bar nonsense.
I agree. Of course I can low-bar squat more than I can high-bar, but my high bar and front squat are quite close. As a 56 year old just getting into Olympic lifts this last two years, fatigue is becoming an issue that I've never previously had so much trouble with, so 100% I see your front squat/deadlift combo as ideal...saving back squats for when I back off the other stuff and just do them as an active rest.
That’s a great idea. I’d love to see front squats in comps too.
I think the front squat is definitely necessary. Revills a lot of weakness in the body. Have you ever tried front squatting with a heavy sandbag or with a landmine?
Nah I’ve never done those before. I just do the barbell.
Smiled when you said your name #23 for the bulls. “IVAAAAN DJUUURIIIC FOR THREEEEEE”
Man if you hit 200 Front squat I feel like you would subsequently hit 220 in your sleep. Maybe not but if you could rock up on leave and eat a cow before hand 💯
Hahahaha great thought.
Hahaha yeh next holidays I’ll try eat a whole cow and squat like a madman.
When FS get a bit comfortable are the coolest shit on the planet, I feel like a super hero when I go into a gym and to heavy ish FS. Im 191 cm tall and going atg FS is pretty shocking to see.
Yeh that is impressive I must say
Front squats and snatch grip deadlifts are the hardest/most painful things for me
Yeh makes sense
Ivan joining the bloatlord on mount difficult
Hahaha
about the hookgrip: im playing guitar - do you think hookgrip will destroy my thumb or should i just go for it?
Ease into it and see how it goes.
Kako šetaš posle svakodnevnih čučnjeva? :D
Polako počneš. Ništa naglo.
I’ve had to switch to front squats as back squats started irritating my lower back. I miss the back squat but enjoying the difficulty of them as you say.
Yeh nice. I think doing both is important.
Have you thought about training overhead squats for a few training cycles?
I don’t have the full mobility yet. But when I get back to oly lifting I’ll definitely do that
Algorithm Ivan
Cheers
I can't speak on squatting but I prefer good mornings to deadlifting. It just feels right.
Wait are you supposed to use a hook grip for front squats? I’ve been doing them for years and didn’t know this lol
If you can get a full grip then great but fingertips are fine
Just makes it easier to transition into doing clean and jerk.
yes
Front squat is just king and my favorite. But seeing you talk about liking the difficult; I ask of you why we often don't do the difficult? E.g. you could start only pause squatting. Or maybe do bench press only larsen style with fatgrips for more range of motion. Or maybe do heavy hard core work over sets of bodyweight crunches? We don't really want to do the difficult in my opinion, because we are creatures of habit. We want to do the familiar. Ofcourse we can plan for a change in difficulty, but at what cost ?
Well in my case I don’t think I avoid all those things because I’m afraid of discomfort at all. It’s just a case what’s needed for me. What works. Just coz it’s more difficult doesn’t mean it will make more progress towards our goals.
Hey Ivan I wanted to ask you, I lately had problems with grip on deadlift, I don't want to use straps, any tips on training grip strength for deadlift?
If you train in commercial gym like me, try using some chalk. And hold your top deadlift set at the top for few seconds. Farmers walk with heavy dumbbell also will help.
Try different kind of grips a go. Hook grip or alternate grip.
@@sushantgurung8584 Aight, thanks.
Yeh depends on what your doing. Alt grip, hook grip etc.
@@IvanDjuric300 Thanks!
Stefan Botev, Tank, Hossein, Toshiki, and Tian Tao are my favorite weightlifters of all time! If I competed in PL, I would only do ass-to-grass squats; I could care less if I get red-lighted; I want to see the reactions#Atg4life
Respect man
bcs of watching ur videos now I'm addicted to the look of weightlifting squat = narrow and ass to grass.
Respect man
I actually find front squats without heels to be easier balance wise than high bar squats. For me, I have a long torso _and_ long femurs so the "window" of balance i have for high bar is very narrow; I have to hit just the right amount of torso lean, whereas with front squats I have the counterweight in front compensating for my rear end poking back to the end of the room
Yeh I feel like that as well. I feel like it’s less of a balance thing with front squats.
I went for a heavy single a week ago and have a calf strain didn’t think that would be the cause but did hit good depth on it 🤔🤔 no pain after the lift was like 3 days later maybe overuse
Yeh calf strains can be debilitating.
Speaking of difficult things, I really want to see you go back to the olympic lifts and get them as good as your squats man! I think only your mobility is holding you back a bit. Sonny Webster has some great free videos you can check out and if you follow those routines your snatch and clean and jerks are gonna blow up
Yeh I’d love to do that man. I think about it often. I’ll go back to it one day. That’s for sure. I gotta get more mobile so I can do them properly.
French low bar is the most aesthetic squat. Bonus points if the knees never break contact from each other.
Bonus points if your furry tail attached to a butt plug pops out mid lift
Never heard of that
Feel like I have to say, they're not the most aesthetic, to me. But they move real decent weight for their size and thepanash has a serious grind in all his lifts I think you would appreciate. I was just trolling a lil
When will we see the pistolsquat? For me its good for my feet. And the squat gets more mobile.
Yeh I tried them earlier this year
I only do front squat. More safe for the back. More transferable on the clean
Front squat max at 110 kg at the moment
Respect man
Have you seen Jezza Uepa do front squats? Insane weights!
I know man
I’m currently doing front squats 4 times a week trying to reach a 140kgs by the end of this year. Right I’m at 120kgs
Respect man. Keep it up.
ya
I like using a belt, it allows me to keep my back in a better positio.
im tall 6'5" front squat is my preferred
Yeh makes sense
I personally train the front squat quite a bit and am constantly surprised by how impressed even seasoned gym-goers are by what to me is not a lot of weight. I recall hitting 265lbs for a set of 8 and had a gentleman next to me repping 315 back squat and wondered how much I could back squat. I said I wasn’t sure, maybe 355 and he told me no, probably mid 400s, which was absolutely absurd. I feel like the front squat is so foreign still to US, AUS, UK etc that it seems so much harder than it actually is. Is it easy? No. But is it twice as hard as back squat? No way. When people ask “what is your secret to front squatting?” I just say “be a man”. Bit old school and a little insensitive but I feel like the message gets across. Get comfortable being uncomfortable. Feels great and I agree I love working the front squat.
That’s the thing. It’s uncomfortable initially. For a lil while you will be in pain. But after that passes you’re ok. Most people can’t take the uncomfortable stage and quit. They think that stage is forever. It’s not. Nothing is really.
I love the front squat. I feel like Lu/olympic lifter during the movement.
That’s it
Have you ever experimented with goblet squats? It's somewhat of a variation of front squat.
I’ve done them but never properly for a max workout.
Goblet squats are basically front squats with training wheels on. No way could you load a goblet squat as heavy as a front squat when you get strong enough - your arms would become the limiting factor long before your legs.
I don't know if they're more impressive but they feel better on the lower back. Ever since I stopped the heavy backsquats I no longer have back pain.
Nice man. Makes sense
Good question. I’m saying it looks cooler but if you’re like me with limited flexibility it’s a hard no on this variation of the squat 😢
Get more mobile man
Because of my long femurs, I much prefer front squats. They’re far more comfortable for me. I tend to get a lot of back “hindge” effect when back squatting. So to combat that, I have to hold the bar high as hell and it’s just uncomfortable no matter what. I start my leg days with front squats, get to where I’m breaking down on my working sets and then finish up with back squats before moving on to deads
Nice man. I like that approach.
The way you feel about Clarence Kennedys 300 kg squat is the way I feel about ironL00's 740lb farmer walk 2015/2016
Waoo that’s crazy
@@IvanDjuric300 man seeing that at 18 yrs old even on youtube, i got a jolt of energy that led me to buying over 800 lbs of plates and handles and a bar over a period of 3 yrs with whatever i can with my small weekly paycheck, and I have what I have today and I am damn determined to walk at least 740 for 20 paces with no straps. I saw another guy do it and I said why not me?
Day 59 of advertising seated goodmornings/back extension/suitcase carries/KB Swings! Sunday rest day. Bench day and went for a jog. Starting to run again. Also, yes. Front squats are op!!! Also, more than front squats. Military press!!!
Respect man
@@IvanDjuric300 yesssiiirr! To you as well! Keep going!!!
i think you should be loading the bent over row a touch more, maybe 80-100kg, i only deadlift 220 but i can easily row 100 for 10.
I hear ya. But not yet. I’m easing into it. I don’t want to shock the system.
@@IvanDjuric300 in the great words of Arnie - "You godda shock the muscle"
Of course there must be time for both, but front squats will always be king. They are a good teaching tool for high bar back squats, they are easier technically than back squats, it's easier to go deeper, it's harder to get injured... Few things are as beautiful and elegant as an ass to calves front squat with the torso upright and flat feet on the floor.
I agree. It’s the best exercise. My favourite. For all the reasons you said.
this is good. i like front squats too, never thought so much why i liked them better, but you are putting it in good context.
Cheers