Mark Ottobre walks through hack squat form step by step: foot placement, core bracing, controlled descent, and explosive drive up. He covers the red safety lock, full range of motion, and how to secure the machine when done.
So this is hack squat. So first thing is safety. When you come off, this lock will come undone. So this is the red lock here. When you're doing this, you do want to go for range of motion. So you're going to be coming all the way down as low as you can, bracing your abs and then exploding up. You don't need your feet too wide. You want it in a comfortable position to allow your hips in that bottom position to go all the way through. Again, I'm keeping my core, my trunk nice and stabilized. Control down and exploding up into the pad. When you're done, make sure, make sure, make sure you pull this up slowly, bring it down, make sure you're locked in. And that's your hack squat.
