What do you guys think of hack squats?

[Gambino]

Not the fruity machine either, the old school movement, looks like a dl but the bar is behind you...I've recently starting doing these and I'm liking them. Good power movement, gets the hammies real good

 

[anthrax]

Pretyy technical movement and if you don't have a proper form you can easily fuck your lower back

 

[mekannik]

Should not the focus be more on the quads than the hamstrings?? See http://www.strengthzone.com/articles/quad-routine.html

Besides, it is not a hack squat anymore, it has been renamed the "beast lift".

 

[Gambino]

Should not the focus be more on the quads than the hamstrings?? See http://www.strengthzone.com/articles/quad-routine.html

Besides, it is not a hack squat anymore, it has been renamed the "beast lift".

I felt it in my lower hams and knee's, but you are proly right about the quad thing...i thought beast lift was another name for zercher squats.

 

[Gambino]

Pretyy technical movement and if you don't have a proper form you can easily fuck your lower back

Techanical? i didn't think so, no more difficult than a regular dl. I don't plan on 1 rming hacks though

 

[thelion2005]

Very old school and very effective. Used to be done on a platform with the weights below and a chain up to the bar you'd hold behind.

The machines are OK too.

Both hit the lower quad and really give you a tear-drop look. Supposedly, Nubret did these wanting to put no load on the hips. Reeves did a lot of these too.

Watch your knees. Think about getting some black "rubber" slip on knee wraps. These exercises are really demanding.

 

[blut wump]

I've like hack squats. They hit my 'tear-drop' muscle pretty well. The biggest problem I always have with them is getting the bar around my glutes. They definitely hit the hams too.

I've always considered it to be a reasonably back-friendly movement and it's never troubled my knees.

 

[HaZaRDouZ]

i personally dont care for the hack squats. i do front squats instead of them as of recent. maybe its the hack squat machine at my gym, it is old skewl and shit, but it kills my fucken knees.

 

[thelion2005]

i personally dont care for the hack squats. i do front squats instead of them as of recent. maybe its the hack squat machine at my gym, it is old skewl and shit, but it kills my fucken knees.

In the Yates training tape, he does them on a machine with some monster weight. Quite a sight!

 

[Gambino]

lion were you at in michigan? northern part here...slip on knee wraps ah? interesting...

 

[redguru]

i personally dont care for the hack squats. i do front squats instead of them as of recent. maybe its the hack squat machine at my gym, it is old skewl and shit, but it kills my fucken knees.

Front squats are my preferred change up pitch in my quad work. Good exercise to learn stricter form, and increase balance. I'll also incorporate lunges from time to time for variety and to emphasize glutes (wider stride lunge for glutes, shorter for quads), I just wear pink on lunge day, then the old school crowd will just think I'm a peter puffer.