I'm Danny Lehr here with The Lifting Fix Matt CrossFit Excel. Everyone's gonna help me out. What we're gonna talk about today is a front squat fix. A lot of times the front squat, the problem isn't that the legs aren't strong enough.
The problem is a midsection issue. We talked about this one other time when we talked about setting the elbows up real quick. quick before squatting. Today we're gonna do something a little bit different.
The two things could actually work together. You should still set those elbows up but one little change is just gonna be our grip on the bar. A lot of people teach and really encourage loose grips like a fingertip grip. Go ahead and get that loose fingertip grip.
doesn't attach for fingers and that's okay She still did a really good job of keeping those elbows up, but the one thing that it kind of doesn't help out is staying tight or upper back. So we'll just take it out of the rack real quick and go down the bottom. You're gonna pause at the bottom for just a quick second. Get over here so you can see like the back a little bit.
And go down there, see. Okay, right here, go really kind of look. You're not gonna stand up out of that now? Okay, good.
So in the upper back is just a little kind of loose in there. So we're going to talk about the full grip on the bar. You can even hook grip it, but even without a hook grip, just really getting the full hand on that bar. So go ahead and get that full grip now.
Nice and tight. She has a hook grip. Okay, now just get her elbows up. A little pressure in the elbow view, adjust to it.
And what you'll watch if you look at her back in there, she's... Squats, go ahead and squat now. You'll see it stays tight the entire time they come up. So if you look at the difference though, it's just a lot tighter positioning.
Alright? So with that pull grip on the bar, it allows it to be tighter in your upper back so you don't have that upper back collapsing and you have a stronger front squat. Also you can get a lot more kind of purchase on the bar as you are fighting those elbows up. Just feel a lot more solid basically in your upper ribcage up.
Let's do one more good one. Nice tight grip. See how strong she looks up the back there. [BLANK Thank you.
So there we go, full grip on the bar, crank those elbows up, get some flexibility, and also get a stronger front squat.
