Why EVERYONE NEEDS To Front Squat!

The front squat is one of the best strength exercises that anyone can do. Strength Coach Dane Miller breaks down his best tips to improve your front squat.

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[mrshodos]

Front squats are such an efficient use of training time. Amazing carryover to all forms of athletics and lifting sports. The only downside is… they’re hard! And the weight numbers are lower than back squat and deadlift, so the ego portion can also take a hit.

[himand]

I've been doing back squats for a while and only tried doing front squats few days ago, it was a humbling experience to say the least.

[jater]

Doing CrossFit and Weightlifting, front squatting a lot has been key to increasing my lifts and also other movements like box jumps.

I now tell my fellow gym goers if you want to get stronger, do your front squats. Very much squat a lot.

[fredlam]

I put a 40 lbs dumbbell over the back of my head to stretch my lats to increase mobility for the front rack and it has helped immensely. Also used the pole to stretch my elbows up. Since working on mobility on the rack, this has increased my max pr on a weekly basis for many weeks, front squat also helped me crush my back squat PR.

[ManWhoKnewTooLittle]

I love front squats, as a really longer limbed person it improved all my lower body lifts and range of motion plus the force producion for jumping.

[ericwilbert]

Back squats recently irritated my sciatic nerve to the worst it ever was last year. Now that I'm recovered, I'm totally replacing the back squat with the front squat for a while, while supplementing hamstring and glute activation accessory moves. Seems to be helping, and my sciatica hasn't returned.

[domination_concepts]

Absolutely love the front squat! I think it’s best to do it with heels elevated on the plates if your mobility isn’t world class and if you’re not wearing lifting shoes.

[CMFGAO]

i feel like i need to write you a love poem for how much you've helped my training.

Love you bro <3

[donniegrande]

50 yrs old here all natty haven't done front squats for years did it today 285 on a safety bar and I dropped the first attempt but got it on the 2nd one 🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽

[energyzer_bunny]

I quit back squatting because:

1. I don't like having all that weight on my spine. I'll take slight discomfort in the wrists over loading up my spine anyday of the week.

2. Anatomically, I have long femurs and stiff ankles. I struggle staying upright on a back squat unless I have heel elevation. Even then, I still find myself "goodmorning" my backsquats. I'm also a posterior chain dominant person. Big glutes/hams, small quads.

3. It transfers better to sports and Olympic weightlifting. I'm a sprinter and having strong quads is vital for acceleration out of the blocks.

The fact that it helps improve your deadlift is just a bonus to me.

[giovannipiacen]

The very best exercise for legs is the hack slide. Orders of magnitudes safer than any squat and it targets the right muscles (the quads rather than glutes and hamstrings), without having your lower back limiting the reps.

[AlteredState]

Great ankle, knee, and hip mobility from the athlete. You can tell he has been training with DMiller since 7th grade.

[Yupppi]

Front squat helped my unbalanced back a ton, it really forced work and stimulation on that left side of the back. And as a result the left lower body mobility also improved, as well as that left arm/wrist mobility. It just felt really good after feeling like the worst thing in the first session I ever tried it. Very happy front squatter now. Although I feel like the loading of the spine in back squat would still be worth it with such young lifting age as mine, sometimes it feels like the load just shocks the torso in back squat.

[kckuhn]

Can you make a tutorial on how to do this because I’ve never really tried it because my form is awful? That would be greatly appreciated thank you.

[jaheim]

I’m longer limbed too. I back squat 600 to 90 degreees but struggle to squat 335 or higher on front squat

[nikoblading]

Rollerblader here. Loving front squat.

[imhassane]

I just had my first front squat day today, I’ve brought my squat from 170lbs to 325lbs in 2 months, I’m doing the same for the front squat but damn they are hard, I’m only able to live 160lbs x 5 x 5 now but I feel like I’m gonna get strong fast as I’m not feeling any back tiredness and my leg strength is there, just the core is working way harder than in the back squat

[northbuster]

I'm not built for squat because of scoliosis and long femur but I've always loved front squat. It seems more natural to me. My max is 150kg and it was the longest grind I've ever had. I need to start doing them again.

[markwinckley]

Amazing video at a timely point. I just got back from playing basketball feeling discouraged at my unimpressive vertical and my lack of consistency over the last year with regard to training. Good to see this video! Sometimes I feel down that my body type is more that of a rugby player than a basketballer, mainly cause I just can’t jump at all. I don’t even have bad knees, I’m just a bit high body fat wise and I don’t have that genetic make up to sky. I know really working on my front squat will help this. I went to the gym for the first time in 5/6 weeks yesterday (still stiff!). The deep front squats and couch stretch were a lot tougher than when I used to train more consistently. I just want to say a big thanks for what you are doing here dane!