If trained, what percent of your back squats should you be able to front squat?

[devnull]

I know, everybody is different and all that but on the same vein that your Dead lift ought to be stronger than your squat, which ought to be stronger than your bench, which ought to be stronger than your press; where would the front squat fall in all of this?

I have been doing front squats to add volume and improve my shoulder mobility; my rack possition is very stiff, front squats is helping stretch things out. I'm wondering what percent of my back squat would make a respectable front squat.

[250orBust]

My front squat is 85% of my Highbar backsquat. I have consistently trained both lifts for close to a year.

[devnull]

I just started a few weeks ago, and the dumbest shit I have done in a while was to go too fast at first. I did my regular 3x5 back squats, then went up in weight on my front squats until it felt nice and heavy around 60% and did 3 sets with that. I was sore for almost a week :\ Since then I have been slowly building up my tolerance for front squats.

[Tamara Reynolds]

My front squat is 88-89% of my high bar squat.

[devnull]

Darn you people! This is gonna hurt...

Why oh why the name change! With all due and proper respect, the sole mention of your former name used to fill me with desire...

Damn it now I'm hungry.

[AdamW]

I don't really front squat at all but last time I did I managed 405 with a back squat of 500, so I guess 81%.

[Kyle Schuant]

Front squats being 75-85% of back squats is common in typical lifters who do a bit of both front and back squats.

The percentage is often 50-60% in people who mostly just back squat, and sometimes as high as 90% in people who mostly just front squat, like many Olympic weightlifters.

But there is not really a "should" in this. Unless you're a competitive powerlifter or Olympic lifter, the main thing is to just work on getting stronger in squatting, whatever that squat might be. The relative ratios don't matter.

[Mr_Rogers]

My front squat is 85% of my Highbar backsquat. I have consistently trained both lifts for close to a year.

I haven't trained them as long as 250, but I get the same percentage (of highbar).

[PeterGibbons316]

Front squat PR from this week was 280x3, back squat PR from this week was 395x5, so I'm less than 70%. Been front squatting once/week all year. I'm doing a low-bar back squat with excessive hip drive, and about as little quad involvement as you can have in a back squat, which I think helps explain why my front squat is so weak compared to my back squat.