Barbell Back Squat
Squat · quads · intermediate
Start
FinishHow to do it
Bar on traps, sit between hips, drive through mid-foot to stand.
Muscles worked
Primary: quads · Also works: glutes, core
Equipment
Barbell, Full gym
Common mistakes
- Knees caving in
- Heels rising
- Excessive forward lean
Variations
- Front squat
- Box squat
- Tempo squat
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Related exercises
- Goblet Squatquads
- Bodyweight Squatquads
- Leg Pressquads
- Bulgarian Split Squatquads
- Walking Lungequads
- Front Squatquads
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