Mark Ottobre watches a trainee's squat and finds the abs aren't firing. Front loading forces the abs to work actively and teaches the right activation pattern before moving to barbell squats. The trainee shows clear improvement in core engagement.
For you, when we screened you at the beginning, your abs aren't engaging the way they need to. The reason why we want to do a few front loading— so there's back loading and front loading. When we front load something, your abs have to work. These exercises are teaching your body, hey, this is how we need to engage, this is the correct pattern, that when you do progress and we progress to a barbell, your abs are engaged. Okay. Significant difference between the way you started to now, right?
