Barbell Front Squat
Hold a barbell across the front of your shoulders with elbows up. Squat down, keeping your torso upright and chest up. Drive back to standing. Maintain elbows high throughout the movement.
QUADRICEPS · LOWER BODY
How it is executed
- Hold a barbell across the front of your shoulders with elbows up.
- Squat down, keeping your torso upright and chest up.
- Drive back to standing.
- Maintain elbows high throughout the movement.
- Muscles worked
- Quadriceps
- Primary muscle
- Vastus medialis
- Equipment
- Barbell
- Movement pattern
- Lower body
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- What it is for
- StrengthHypertrophy
Routines that program it
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Glossary and calculators
Isolation exerciseAn isolation exercise moves a single joint and concentrates the load on one muscle — the biceps curl, the triceps extension, the leg curl.Linear progressionLinear progression is the scheme where load rises by a fixed amount every session or every week, with sets and reps held constant.RIR ↔ %1RM conversionWhat percentage of 1RM does your RIR correspond to?
