Marc
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Just found this one wandering around in the WWW
"Legs Feed the Wolves" - Kettlebell Front Squat for Crazy Conditioning
"Legs Feed the Wolves" - Kettlebell Front Squat for Crazy Conditioning
Ab involvement for sure, but the claims of reduced lower-back stress and CNS fatigue are questionable, especially the latter. Greg Knuckol's articles comparing high bar, low bar, front squats have convinced me that stress on the spinal erectors in all of these exercises is probably rather close when working at a similar RM range. The weight in a front squat is less, but the leverage on the back is less favorable (the horizontal distance from bar to hips is greater), so it evens out.The biggest selling points of the front squat to me are the additional abdominal involvement, the lessened lower-back stress and lower CNS fatigue.
So, like, whatever makes front squats special, they are great.The older I grow and the more I learn, the more I realize that intelligent and effective folks focus on the practice while keeping an eye on the theory.
I have done it with an SFG many times. We do it "I go you go". It turns out to be EMOM, more or less. This is the way it's done as the Grad Workout.Should we be doing ABC emom or every two minutes as in the article?
So who has tried it? Sounds simple and with a longer than emom break sounds easy, but we all know those pesky bells always sneak up on you