Narrow Stance Hack Squats

Legs · Machine

How to do it

Back against the machine pad and shoulders under the yokes. Place your feet on the platform **closer than shoulder width**, centred. Release the safeties and descend by bending the knees until your thighs pass parallel; drive up through the whole foot without snapping the knees straight. A narrow stance aims the work at the **outer quad**, which is what gives the leg its shape from the front. The classic mistake is letting the knees cave in on the way up.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Calves, Glutes

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