so for being real if you have long femurs and you are low bar squatting you’re probably not hitting the quads all that much for your squats but you probably got that SpongeBob boute because your squats primarily going to be a hinge movement and you’re going to be using a lot of the glutes and lower back some quads some adductors some hamstrings maybe even but you’re not hitting the quads that much now this could be in your favor if you’re competing powerlifting you want to be the lightest you can then you don’t really need all that much quad size and of course having bigger quads going to help with overall strength but if you’re capped off on weight you’re going to have what we call powerlifting legs big glutes mini quads but honestly who really wants big legs in the first place it’s not like you could wear short shorts or yeah you know what just wear pants
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In my experience, pushing knees forward helps when having a long femur.
600lbs is DIABOLIc
That's how I'm built. It sucks having chicken legs, but it gives you an insane strength to weight ratio. Quads put so much weight on your body
Wish i knew this before becoming a powerlifter
The prime movers on the low bar squat are still the quads. It just shifts some knee extension demands to hip extension so proportionally more glutes.
Ass to grass squats for life.