Originally Posted by
Michael Wolf
I'm not sure which perspective is more correct: The barbell gods did not have front squats in mind when they created me, or the barbell gods did not have me in mind when they created front squats. Either or both. Ah well, at least I can get *some* weight on the bar right now by doing them.
Front Squat
65x3, 85x3, 105x3, 125x3, 145x3, 165x3, 185x3, 195x3
Notes: None of these were hard for my legs or T-spine, but my knees just don't get very far forward. Even in the higher heeled shoes, and even with an intense focus on vertical torso, I have to lean over from almost the get-go, and the bar path is just brutal.
It's funny, I imagined myself with a fairly vertical torso, but had Ryan film me on the 145x3 set. I am almost as leaned over by the bottom as a long torso'd person is when doing a low bar squat. I really tried hard after that to push the knees fwd and stay upright but my anthropometry just doesn't have much to offer.
If I ever wanted to compete in Olympic Lifting seriously, I'd have to split clean.