Front Squats

Ever try front squats? I got really charged up about them watching the videos at Crossfit, including their Front Squat demo. Last Sunday I decided to give them a try.

I figured I better do a lot of warmup sets to get the groove since I had never really tried them before. As a result, my sets went something like:

45 x 10
75 x 10
105 x 10
125 x 10, 8

The last few sets I supersetted with moderate weight leg curls. I wasn't quite sure if I had worked my legs hard enough, so I decided to tack on two sets of regular back squats:

165 x 15, 10

A couple of sets of calf raises and leg raises later and I was almost done. Sensing that I could do more, I setup my shrug bar and knocked out one light (175 x 20) set of shrug bar deadlifts.

This workout left me sore for days, so of course I'm going to try more front squats next time!