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Acein91

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No one's ever clarified to me, and I've always been a bit confused: what is the difference between lunges and backwards lunges, or between back squats and front squats?

And what difference does it make what grip you use for deadlifts? I don't even know all of them, I just use the one grip, whose name I don't know.
 
Lunges and backwards lunges are not that different. Back lunges are harder just because its going against the grain and you brain freaks out because your stepping backward and its uncertain of whats behind you.

Back squats and front squats are very different tho. Back squats the bar is resting behind the neck on your traps. Front squats the bar is resting in front of your neck across the clavicle and your the front of you delts. I know, when i first started and saw a front squat i was like "do what?????"

Deads lift grip, well.....do which if good for you. If read that if you bend down and grab the bar, just with which ever hand naturally goes under hand and which ever goes underhand, then switch that grip so its the "unnatural" way that it helps because it supposedly flip flops the brain and stimulates more activity. If there is any truth to that i have no idea, just an article in a mag
 
front squats: bar placed ahead of center of gravity. more emphasis on quads

back squats: bar placed behind center of gravity. less emphasis on quads, and more on glutes

backward lunges: working leg is stationary, more emphasis on balance, glutes/hams
 
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