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Front Squats

D1cko

D1cko

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Yo, I want to start incorporating more front squats as assistance for my back squat and othere reasons...
I seem to be having trouble with wrist flexibility and it hurts after 3 or so reps...I've tried the cross-arm method but I really want to learn properly
Any Tips please?
 
Work on your wrist flexibility and stretching of the lats/delts/pec.

Keep your elbows high.
 
Work on your wrist flexibility. I had my wrist broken twice (in cast for 6 weeks at a time) and they were not able to align the bones last time too. I can still do front squats. Funny enough it's less painful than back squats.
 
I forgot who it was but someone on here kindly explained to me that most of the time it's a lat/tricep/thoracic flexibility problem not a wrist problem

Wrapping my wrists also helped a lot for me
 
Front squats are great, just keep trying and you will eventually find a comfortable position. As Sticky said, keep your elbows high, or the bar will roll forward.
 
Just focus on elbows up, tricep parallel to floor and resting bar on finger tips eg not holding onto it.

My problem with them was shoulder flexibility, not wrist. Perhaps work on both and see where it gets you.
 
Man that is a brilliant video...
I just did some of these stretches in the office and the flexibility is already better...I can't recall doing anything like this before attempting front squats...I'm going to give it a crack tonight after deadlifts....
 
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