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Originally Posted by Ken
Anyone here like putting plates under their heels during front squats? I personally do not though I might be missing good reasoning behind it.
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I don't care for it personally.
The reasoning behind it, is to direct more of the focus on your quads. Push with your toes, its going to be mainly quads. Push with your heels its going to be mainly hamstrings doing the work.
Only thing I can add to this would be avoid doing it all of the time. Eventually your quads will totally over power your squat. In my observations guys, that avoid and/or cannot go deep in the squat is directly linked to weak hamstrings.
Use them sparingly, also, I would go light and high rep with these.