Strength · Squat · Barbell
Front Squat
Front Squat is a strength exercise with a barbell that mainly works the quads, with help from the glutes, upper back and abs.
How to do it
- Bar resting on the front delts, elbows high
- Chest up, stay upright
- Knees forward over the toes
- Drive up with the elbows leading
In Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead starts you on 3 sets of 5–8 reps with 3:00 rest. When every set reaches 8 reps, the weight goes up 5 kg, or 10 lb if you train in pounds.
Warm-up sets are planned from your first work set: the empty bar, then 40, 60 and 80 %.
Muscles worked
Mainly
- Quads
Also
- Glutes
- Upper back
- Abs
Joints it loads
- Knee a lot
- Wrist some
- Lower back some
- Hip some
With an injury here, the app warns you before this exercise.
Log it in Sets Ahead
Sets Ahead works out your next set of front squat, and every other lift, from your own numbers.
Test it before releaseSimilar exercises
The same movement, done another way: what the app suggests when you swap.