How to Hack Squat to Grow Quads and get HUGE Quad Sweep with Hypertrophy Coach

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[@LaidoStrike]

1:46 Tip #1: Set your stance 5:06 Tip #1.5: Play with width 6:28 Tip #2: Push through the platform 7:22 Tip #3: Lock it in stone

[@CumbrianMush]

Nerd 🤓

[@AnonMouse-eo4of]

😂 I laugh cause he kinda mentions this in the first minute and a half but i still love that you did this❤ sometimes i want to losten to certain parts again and this helps!

[@ThreeBlindMice-ni9tm]

The cues in this video have opened a whole new world of opportunity to bring pain to my legs. I can barely walk today. I am a 45 year old man trying to overcome my body being ruined from sitting at a computer terminal for 20+ years. I'm so fucking happy, I am not sure if my tears are from the pain of trying to walk or from finally achieving the dream goal of growing my legs back to my pre-career level. Gluing my pelvis to the back of the pad and bracing my lower core has allowed me to engage my quads in a new way. There are three distinct muscles in your quads and if you have any hip or pelvic issues, such as lower-cross syndrome, you are not actively working the full range of muscles. This video has helped me find a path to overcoming my skeletal-muscular issues. When your brain processes a trainer's sage advice and can put the cues into action... they can change a man's life.

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Amazing to hear! 👊🙏🙏🙏

[@josemanuelaponte5675]

I see so many trainers missing all of these things. Awesome stuff here man.

[@lacticaddictluke]

The quality of trainers these days is shocking

[@zorankornet8929]

Video doesn't start until 1:57

[@johnspartan9839]

I believe Joe is by far one of the Very best in the field!

[@HypertrophyCoach]

🙏🙏

[@godsgiftto3arth]

i spent the longest time trying to heel drive a hack squat. was such a waste of training time until i started using full foot pressure "tripod" and smashing the feet through it, as Joe said. all of a sudden my quads were firing properly

[@HypertrophyCoach]

👊👊👊

[@runthefuture]

Turd here reporting for duty! Tips start at 1:45. Watch the beginning though so you know the latest on ESPN 18

[@solosolo8336]

I still don't get how this channel isn't popular. great stuff

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Working on it 🤷‍♂️

[@nevadamareno3713]

How this guy hasn’t got more subscribers blows my mind

[@WinkelmanSM-3]

So sad most commercial gyms dont have a hacksquat

[@scottend5239]

Not sure where you're at, but the UK has them in most places. They're not the best of brands, but I'd rather have them than not.

[@bleedblue1604]

Very true

[@carllane6521]

Mine has two and even Planet Fitness had one

[@FourTwentyClouds]

I mean if you work out at planet fitness, but every other big gym has em

[@WinkelmanSM-3]

@@FourTwentyClouds theres 2 commerical gyms with hack squats that im aware of in my city, and i live in the capital of the Netherlands, well over 200 gyms.

[@petermandell734]

This was so helpful! I never do hack squats and now I feel prepared. Thanks for the great video

[@raymondmuzembe1636]

Thoroughly enjoyed this. Looking forward to legs tomorrow. Thanks Joe👊🏽

[@scottend5239]

Thanks! I "love" hack squats and want to improve my sweep, so this is perfect!

[@davidmartin3351]

Brilliant. Can you do one for pendulum squats?

[@themanthemyth2614]

Thank you for addressing your sweat. I was so confused why this huge physically fit man was all sweaty.

[@WojtekAMG]

One of the most valuable channel in this business! Thanks for all infos! 🥇

[@Gggrrrrrrrr23]

Just discovered the hack squat and its amazing. My legs have never been trained so hard in my life, i can take them to absolute failure and they just grow.

[@jessboysen1976]

Hey man, I really appreciate this review. They just got a hack squat machine at my gym. I’ve been trying to get my foot placement and form correct. I appreciate your detailed explanation.

[@mjgramstories]

Wat an detailed explanation, I hv NVR seen like this before

[@gazjamison3807]

Great tips. I’ve only just started back to legs, after a long time off. My knees are in bits so really limits what I can do

[@JerrTheHooman]

Awesome! So helpful. I decided to try the hack squat machine for the first time ever and got humbled. I thought I could surely squat my normal BB sqauts/leg press weights but could barely do a single 45 plate. It's so damn awkward

[@cynamd]

The most informative video on hacks, thank you.

[@GrahamConnor]

I've been doing squats/hack squats for 6 months (since I started lifting) and have never felt my quads activate. Leg day today and I will definitely follow this advice.

[@j.w.6102]

How was it? Did this tip work??

[@Jegkedermigmega]

Lovely content as per usual. I see you've added some extra pads to the pads of the hacksquat for added range, I presume. I've usually opted for adding the extra depth through adding plates to the plateau I'm standing on, which, quite honestly, isn't an optimal solution. So here's an idea for a future video: "Tips and tricks to accommodate your shitty equipment". A video (series?) wherein you delve a little into certain tips and tricks that can help turn shitty equipment (and thereby shitty exercise, so to speak) into top-tier equipment (I expect royalties and a shout out). Keep trucking, love to see the growth of the channel. Makes me genuinely happy! Also: enjoyed your podcast with John Jewett quite a lot, and really think you should do more of that :)

[@HypertrophyCoach]

I actually did a video on how to set up the hack pads! It’s on this page a bit back

[@ryanrogers8211]

Excellent tips sir, thank you 😊

[@robertburtchell6824]

The best video I’ve seen on hack squat. Thank you for this.

[@gerryachoki1239]

Your leg day with Terrence Ruffin is typically hamstring focused to prioritize both of your goals. Can you do/or discuss a quad focused leg day for those of us with SpongeBob quads.

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Watch my video training Ivie. (Just a bit back). Her leg day is very quad focused.

[@rachaelball9348]

Fab. Just started using this machine. This was super helpful. 💫

[@Print2shoot]

I have only done front squats with this machine and I love them. With knee wraps I can actually do them. I am 4.5 months post double torn meniscus and I did not do the surgery..went with physical therapy , to my own strengthening program, and now I’m incorporating weights. I can’t do leg raise machines and can only do leg raises with bands if my legs are locked out. I’m really nervous to use this machine for a hack squat and until your video I was going to put my feet up high. I’m actually on my way to go try this workout for the first time ever today. It looks safer than a leg press for knees. I’m going to try to do as much range as possible but not Sure I’ll be able to start with it. May have to work my way into it as I get stronger. Any thoughts?

[@eagleelisei]

The subscribers count going up slowly but steadily

[@Nigeljones00]

Excellent detailed instruction.

[@richardmarino2732]

Please don't stop being verbally abusive. The day you don't throw insults our way or tell us to shut up is the day I run away from home

[@pablovent8622]

Great pointers thx!

[@daxpachica6857]

for the algorithms and beyond!! thanks joe!!

[@acoast84]

I don't understand how come hack squat is so much harder to do than leg press?? I'm using 10kg on a hack squat but 60kg on a leg press machine for the same amount of reps and sets. Is this normal? By the way, this channel is pure gold!!!

[@thermal_el_jackson]

Same here! Hack Squat is humbling.

[@josemarieclavo9525]

deym just got what i was looking for very helpful! 👌

[@allenallen4810]

Best instruction for this exercise…thank you. Could you do one for the freemotion Hack?

[@rolandoxiv6934]

thanks for the tips man really gives an advantge on the training and makes mor efficient traning

[@3koolboy]

Great video, always

[@niurkaalonso1897]

Great explanation. I am new to this excersise

[@wb1378]

I'm trainer from Brasil. Thank you man

[@TheHagen01]

Thanx for the tips, i dig it!

[@erickong2328]

I always feel like I'm doing hack squats wrong my knees feel more pain then anything

[@ChrisMoore-lt3rh]

DUDE! AWESOME CHANNEL. Thanks for putting out real info

[@daryldelp8232]

I like doing hack squats because its hard to do but always had problems with the stance

[@trinihammer]

tom platz did hack squat with his feet literally together.extreme narrow stance and boy we know how his quads turned out . its on youtube.

[@TheCatseyepub]

Keeping your feet low on the platform will restrict how deep you can squat however you will be targeting your quads to the max because keeping your feet low on the platform will ensure your knees going way over your toes, activating the quads maximally.

[@vulturesiii6450]

His knees don't go over toes tho?

[@justa1l]

Looking forward to this video!

[@stevebrown6543]

Awesome as always. Thank you

[@WinkelmanSM-3]

Love the shirt 🏴

[@sourabhs8286]

Great video man!

[@keithquinn424]

Great content

[@Bonkxd]

Great video as always!

[@eduardo21774]

Love u man

[@stephanpolten2481]

Thanks for your conten all time 👍👍

[@Siirius86]

Needed this video and didn’t even know it 🙏🏾

[@gabrielrubinho8936]

Thank youuu coach

[@graylandouglas3421]

Thinking you should shoot the next video while leaving the nose strip on!

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Believe me, I would have. But I pretty much always sweat it off by the end of the workout. Never makes it through the prowler

[@drsev61]

Love the Step Brothers reference. Lol

[@korbynreynolds687]

always love these videos man. might have to do these with those anabolic socks (this is from a instagram comment i made XD)

[@adrians5875]

Great tips!

[@KickingwithKara]

Such a great vid. 🙏🏻

[@ironbeast7476]

I thought you were Gandolf’s friend the forest wizard!

[@belindacassidy6541]

Amazing

[@salatiel91]

Awesome content Joe as always.... Is it any way to fix that in a home gym? I feel like back squats are not really doing the job

[@kevinjerome9224]

Great video.

[@Anand111]

Hairy KZbinrs crew💪

[@aznpandab0i]

Any chance you could do another video on the pendulum squat?

[@RichFitzwel]

Top notch!

[@liftingjoe2.035]

Love your info and do your eyebrows for next time 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@shakirnabors8616]

I like this guy

[@HypertrophyCoach]

🙏

[@MrHernanromero]

hi, could you please make a video about how to perform this exercise facing the pad for the quadriceps, there is a hack machine that has pads that allow you to work in that way, but I have a shoulder injury that prevents me from using my arms to hold the side handles, so I can only use my shoulders to push upwards causing me a lot of distress on my trapezius and shoulders, I can´t do back squats, front squats either, that is why I have been trying to work my quads in this fashion. I´m 63 and I´ve lifting weights for 41 years, and I feel that if I Don´t do some kind of squats I Would eventually lose a lot of muscle,any advice?. thank you in advance

[@skycoh3581]

I watched the whole first part.

[@scarfholdgraphicsmedia9501]

Nice quads!

[@bulbasur1]

start at 01:50

[@nicobazan8392]

I’ve been hack squatting with a foam roller behind my upper back. It takes a lot of pressure of my lower back. I’m not sure if this is beneficial for training though. Could you do some content explaining the positives and negatives of this?

[@walterwhite8146]

Hey can we talk I have a doubt about that 😄😅

[@IamMedellinInc]

Thx so much

[@Semaj.18272]

So I added a foam roller behind my back and learned forward way way easier on my knees but … it feels like a leg press and once I use a hack squat back against the pad can’t do much weight but I feel it all the way to top of my thighs to my hips I been gluts and putter hamstrings I feel the whole stretch

[@raymondmuzembe1636]

Please do a pendulum squat one too Joe

[@martinguintu4798]

GOD BLESS YOU 💯😈

[@janty962]

I wish to know which squat machines are better. Facing the machines which i use to use. Lay on the machines are new to my and there are 2 types of machine the 45 degree which you use and the other is standing up one.

[@ColonelJohnmatrix1000]

The persons anatomy will dictate how low you can go. There is not set way.

[@jeelani5530]

❤for🇮🇳 coach💪🙂

[@jimirsayssponsor5844]

it’s fucking up my knee so bad… like the tendon tying from the top of my knee cap to the bottom feels like it’s gonna snap if I go too hard too fast. Especially on lighter weight..

[@davidpenwell3432]

I find my lower back wobbles around too much in this exercise

[@anirex911]

Thanks for the video bro. One question. Why is the band the opposite way round. Shouldnt it expand on your way up? This way you have more weight when you are at bottom position. Isnt that more risky?

[@jeremymarcus9105]

Whats the use of the pads on the shoulder

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Allows more ROM before the machine bottoms out.

[@92118]

I feel all the weight on my knees when I use a hack squat. Any suggestions to not feel it in my knees?

[@Maxrepfitgm]

Are you tall? Might need to go higher with foot position and make sure you're fully erect and upright

[@bruce7067]

My hack squat at my gym is adjustable on the incline ,what degree angle do u think is best to set it up on

[@peanut9360]

Why do I feel all squats in my glutes and hamstrings ..

[@Doggomorph]

9 mins felt like 90 seconds

[@HypertrophyCoach]

That’s what she said? 🤔

[@BobbyBoucher41]

I feel the load so much in my knees ? Any tips for that?

[@innovatixn99]

Does the hack squat carry over to the back squat? Because I did it yesterday and I can BB squat more but I've noticed that most ppl can hack squat more than the BB squat.

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Anything the develops the same muscles used with have some “carry over” - so, yes.

[@lulquan4526]

Why do they make this machine at a 45 deg angle ? I mean the load is nearly divided by half and u need more plates. Why not make it 60 deg, 75 deg or even 90 deg ?

[@ThePepsiman1000]

I hope someone can give you a better answer, but I think it’s at a 45 degree angle so you can lay on the sled pad for more torso stability, and how the load is supported on the rails. I’m assuming if it was completely 90 degrees you would have all the load on the shoulders and it would increase the demand on the spine. If I remember correctly, i believe another coach claimed different angles affected how smooth the sled moves.

[@mjh0013]

So you do or you do not want to feel like your toes are going through the front of your shoes? Forgive me for missing that.

[@SimonftBronx]

Joe do you have an opinion on the V squat machine? My gym does not have a hack squat unfortunately.

[@lanrosette5206]

Can you share your program for whole muscles

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Check out my app! TONS of full programs on there 👊 www.hypertrophycoach.com

[@daniellegonzales9432]

How many warm up sets do you recommend and at how much lighter than working weight?

[@nathanluke526]

Did we just become best friends?

[@HypertrophyCoach]

Yup

[@TheLastModernist]

Might be a stupid question but why do you have exercise bands strapped to the machine. Does this not just reduce the weight ?