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Originally Posted by beasty 
Dude, the bar was unloaded and the bar was not even the standard universal bar. Think for a proper quad workout, I will stick to incline legs, squats and leg curls and if I got anything left, lunges. Front squats are too difficult for me.
I don't know if you're doing this already, but when you are holding the bar, make sure your shoulders are rounded forward. I like to hold it crossed arms if I'm doing slow tempo squats, but I can lift more with a "clean" grip. with both grips though, shoulders all the way forward and elbows as high as I can and it's comfortable enough. When I started front squats I was squatting about 275 rock bottom and deadlifting close to 400, and I had to go down to about 150 to get my form right on the front squats. Quit if you want to, but I like the different way it hits things like my lower back and quads. If you want to change things up a bit, try doing front squats with a 5-0-5 tempo, rock rock bottom, for 6 sets of 6. Thats 10 full seconds for each rep, 1 minute per set. You'll have to use a light weight, so your form can get better without feeling like you're going to crush yourself, and you will feel it when you're done.
