Front squats force you to stay more upright than back squats, which activates your anterior core instead of your posterior chain. Holding the weight at your chin shifts your center of gravity forward, and keeping your eyes on a fixed point during the movement trains your vestibular system for better balance.
Hi, I'm Bill from Beyond Fitness Online. Today I'm going to talk to you about the front squat. The front squat is a great exercise for a lot of core activation, for stimulating your vestibular system, getting better balance, and also even helping with potential low back, hip, and knee pain. Now here's the deal. If we have a bar on our back for a back squat, that really tends to get us to lean way forward, gets us kind of out of a weird— into a weird position. So we're going to use a barbell or a dumbbell, in this case a dumbbell, We're going to hold it by our chin either way, and we're going to just do our squats the same way. Now, what you'll notice is when you do a squat like this, it keeps your torso a little more upright. That's going to create a whole different kind of activation in the core. So you really start to work on a lot of these muscles here rather than the muscles in the back. You also go with whatever range of motion your knees are comfortable with, and then that helps to prevent knee injuries. And if you keep your eyes on one target, that's going to keep your vestibular system active, which also can reduce pain which I've said in other videos. If you like this, follow me for more tips and tricks just like these.
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