Laura Michalak best i ever seen also, he covered all my questions.

livjunkie I actually have been wanting to do that on my channel because the front squat doesn't get much love. I'm not built for the FS AT ALL but I like to think I've got it down well because I've learned to accommodate it to my strengths. Most tend to mimic an Olympic lifting style front squat but I do it slightly different. I'll try to film the ins and outs of how it'll be unique to everyone within a couple weeks :)

yes please!!! front squats today for me and I'm not good at them!!! so frustrating!!

replying to the hot female. shock.

livjunkie n

"hot"

Michael Leibowitz yeah it's unfortunate how often that happens. Speaking from a perfectly designed human that stands naturally in absolute anatomical neutral and has no unique or out of the norm morphology we should all squat pretty close to that. However in the real world you almost never see that haha so in reality is there even such thing as average or "normal" morphology? Not really.

man my fucking coach is doing the same thing to me lmao its fucking annoying as hell but i already squatted my normal way for years with toes out and hes trying to widen my stance and keep my toes forward and it feels like shit

Don’t feel bad. I’m 37 and only figured out recently that a narrow stance with toes out about 30 degrees works best for me. No wonder I’ve hated the squat for so long and could never do it right but now it’s my favorite exercise and I’m doing some decent weight

ikr i thought my knees where gonna pop off

If you round your back the low back Will get alote of pressure and you Will feel some sort of pain

Joaquin Ssj9Devil +1

Joaquin Ssj9Devil brendan has a deadlift video on his channel

Please do it Omar!!

Dude i see you on every youtube fitness channel

yes please

Why can't all his series be for the ladies?

Surprised to see you here

Mike Dunn i agree

Mike Dunn Brett Gibbs had an awesome.vid about deadlifts that Omar featured a while back.

Luis Paez it really depends on your hip anatomy as well as he says in the video. if youre taller with longer femurs it is more beneficial to push your knees out and open up the hips more BUT if you go super wide and dont have the hip mobility or insertion to handle this, your spine is just going to curve at the bottom and thats one of the worst things for the squat. ive found that REALLY concentrating on screwing my feet into the floor and concentrating on that throughout the lift, that my best stance is about shoulder width with toes slightly pointed out. ive got pretty long femurs. this position gets me about half or quarter inch below paralell with low bar and no buttwink. the best thing for me was finguring this out and not trying to sink them and sit btw my hips too much with chest high because that caused so much buttwink. for me, as long as i agressively screw in my feet and stay grounded, my kneed go where they need to go and where theyre strongest.

Yeah that too, I have long femurs also, that's why I tried the wide stance.. But personally it just doesnt seem to do it for me for some reason. It's similar to how my wrists hurt a bit more doing bi curls with an EZ bar than with a straight one, have no idea why when it's supposed to be the contrary.

Yep, I tend to have far more power and stability when I have a narrow stance (just outside of my shoulders). Wider stance tends to put more stress on hip flexors, although it definitely seems more gentle on the knees (as long as they are pointed outwards properly). The potential stress on the groin area (squatting raw) isn't worth the lowered stress on the knees, in my case.

Luis Paez Im 6"2 tall and wide squat is alot better. if I try to squat narrow, I lose my balance easily

Amen. 6'3 all legs wasted a lot of time trying to use various wider stances. Threw on some squat shoes with a super high heel went ultra narrow on my stance toes almost pointed straight forward and squat is smooth as butter and feel all the muscles firing evenly vs feeling like I'm hammering joints. I even use a blasphemous ultra wide grip on the bar. I like look Jesus on the cross when squatting

I switched from narrow to wide and I have experienced soreness where I never felt before doing squats: the glutes. I looked it up and a wider squat allows for activation of more muscles, the glutes being one of them.

Joseph Bavone I never felt sore in my glutes with the narrow squats, only in my quads. That does make alot of sense

Liam Noble hella?

Cary Norton Oh my bad 😂, it's bay area slang. It means "really".

Omar *Triggered*

I am sad to report that I too am one of the no-calf nation.

Me as well. Waaaahhh! My son told me "Dad you have a nice upper body but your legs are tiny." I promise I train calves! Even though my quads and glutes have gotten bigger and stronger small calves really make your legs look smaller. I'm team high/no calves. I'm also a black guy who LOVES sprinting so that might have something to do with it.

Ezrocker000 yeah mike tuscherer and Rori alter (badass IPF lifter and physical therapist) both squat in this manner because of what I mentioned. You can definitely squat at a high level while using that arm/wrist position

I tend to lose tightness that way, i have looong arms and legs... so every squad sesion is a mistery trying to find the best form

Derek Green welcome to the fam

both stiffleg and regular

Jack Carter yeah I'd have to agree.. pretty ugly skwat

Jack Carter He is obviously strong af but I've never seen someone squat low bar with a stance that narrow. He dive bombs the fuck out of his squat too. It's a great squat but to me I've never seen something so unorthodox. I have to squat narrow because I have strong quads but could never imagine squatting low bar with that stance; to me it looks like a back injury waiting to happen. It obviously works for him but it's strange.

Tim Babadook he good Mornings it too. You shouldn't do that with high bar

non yobussiness Oh I don't know tbh. He squats 600 or close I believe, so it works obviously. I'm just trying to find people who have long as femurs, squat low bar and have a narrow squat stance.

Tim Babadook I meet those three criteria, used to squat really narrow because I felt a false sense of tightness in the hole (was really my stomach just running out of room onto my quads haha) I didn't realize how bad it looked until watching training footage.. I recently moved my stance out a couple inches and so far so good. gives my hips more room to move and I feel more upright. no video yet to check my hypothesis

Atakan TheTurkadam don't discount the ladies when it comes to lower body strength

Yeah it's mostly because they have wide hips, they tend to have stronger leg bones and muscles. Maybe that's why their lower body tend to be big, almost as big as males, while their upper body remains very weak compared to males.

Not many women I know are squatting 400 lbs... then again, not many guys I know do either lol She's impressive for sure. Kudos to her.

medved No, most average men ain't no getting to that number in just a bare 6 months. And no, women don't come in THAT much different sizes so as to be barely the half of 400 pounds. It's all lifestyle and eating habbits.

yeah... allegedly. People lie you know. It's a thing.

hu le lol why? a simple google search should tell you all you need to know

***** hahaha made me laugh

if you go on Brenden Tietz channel he has a video on squat shoes already

***** I'll have to check her out

Cognitive Philosophy yea man check the supple kitten

proudnotsatisfy Well played.

In some ways yes, in some no. I mean, not everybody has 206 bones. So sure, if you work on your mobility, your mobility will be better, but like... ok so I can glance at a pelvis and tell you if it's male or female from six criteria. There's more, but they take more than a glance. So there's some truth to the idea that everyone could work on their mobility. Everyone (with reasonable exception for age and injury) can eventually squat to parallel or below with work, not everyone is going to be able to do it with the same foot and knee angle, spacing, etc. Kind of like how any healthy individual can train a split, but do you care to?

Josh Johnston Good info. I have been doing yoga for about a year now as a spiritual thing and also enjoy it as a complement to working out

jyhluk me personally recommend leg press it works glutes and the legs. great for starters

jyhluk Give up! But seriously i would just experiment with your foot angle and the width of your stance. Lou Feriggno was 6'5", he probably just had to figure it out with tons of trail and error.

jyhluk there's more to it than just morphology however try either a wide stance similar to Taras or if that's uncomfortable give my stance a try with the very externally rotated hip position. Because of your femur length and height in general you'll most likely want to adopt a more "hip dominant" squat in some way.

im 36% femurs and i figured my squat stance right after 2 years (not consitstent training). i always did conv deadlifts or clean pulls (♥clean pulls). id advice u to test out stances like the others said. i kinda like a more narrow toes forward stance because of the explosiveness and flowing motion you get. narrow paused squats 3x6 and 3x6 conv deadlifts after 3 times a week and ull go to a fucking viking 6'3 fml