Front squats Vs Back squats.

[biggied]

nate - any tips for increasing flexibility for oly technique?

[rose]

nate - any tips for increasing flexibility for oly technique?

StrongLifts tips:

How to Front Squat with Proper Technique

If the Clean Grip hurts your wrists, you have tight wrists and/or triceps. Stretch your wrists & triceps 3-4x/week, flexibility will improve.

How To Stretch Your Wrists For A Better Front Squat Experience

How To Stretch Your Triceps

I've always used clean grip and have never had to use this advice myself, would be interested to know if anyone has/does.

[Riccardo]

Thread needs wookie powah.

[TonganTerror]

interesting nate I also tried the oly style and cant even reach back far enough to touch the bar lol but your right its only practice next week im gonna make it work :nod: as holding it oly style would help with weight that you can handle too

[Jigga]

if you want to see perfect front squat technique look no further

(^olympic gold medalist)

[tinytraps]

Aaaah wookie powah, im sure its enhanced by gillies im cashing in on that shit 8)

If you can squatting with a whippy olympic bar is much easier than a powerbar

[teamfatboy]

How to Front Squat with Proper Technique

How To Stretch Your Wrists For A Better Front Squat Experience

How To Stretch Your Triceps

I've always used clean grip and have never had to use this advice myself, would be interested to know if anyone has/does.

Thanks for the links Rose. I've got front squats back on the menu so I'll footnote how the stretches help in my journal from time to time.

I'm hoping that triceps stretching will mean I can actually touch the bar... if I prop it on my delts, like TT I can barely touch it. Looking at Wookie's lift, it looks like his hands are basically just preventing it from rolling off his delts ?

[Draft]

How To Stretch Your Wrists For A Better Front Squat Experience

How To Stretch Your Triceps

I've always used clean grip and have never had to use this advice myself, would be interested to know if anyone has/does.

It's on my to-do list.

[chaos]

WTF where do you place the bar? It shouldn't come close to your biceps.

Across my throat, like normal, just my arms do alot of work holding it on my heaviest sets

just need to work on keeping your elbows up higher it sounds like. the bar sits in there nicely if you don't let the bar pull your body forward as you push up at the bottom.

X2 on keeping the elbows higher, sounds like you're letting the bar roll forward a bit. Also maybe work your front delts some and build them up to give the bar a "pocket" to sit into.

[PeterDolan]

Across my throat, like normal, just my arms do alot of work holding it on my heaviest sets

just need to work on keeping your elbows up higher it sounds like. the bar sits in there nicely if you don't let the bar pull your body forward as you push up at the bottom.

X2 on keeping the elbows higher, sounds like you're letting the bar roll forward a bit. Also maybe work your front delts some and build them up to give the bar a "pocket" to sit into.

They've got the pocket, the elbows do come down though on my heavy sets

[Big john]

Thread needs wookie powah.

wookie powah ftw!....amazing for such a big force of destruction he has quite amazing flexibilty (no thanks to all the oly lifting!) :twisted:

[Maximus]

I used to have an issue with doing back squats as I have injured my back before doing these many times, however, now I'm cool with these and have started doing overhead squats as well. They are pretty hard to say the least. Just trying to overhead squat 50kgs for me is very difficult. It really highlights your imbalances in your body.