Wide Stance Barbell Squat

Legs · Barbell

How to do it

Bar on your upper back and feet **clearly wider than your shoulders**, toes turned out. Descend sending your hips back and driving your knees out in line with your feet, past parallel; stand by pushing the floor outwards with both feet. A wide stance loads far more glute and adductor and less quad, and **it needs less ankle mobility** than a narrow one. The classic mistake is letting the knees cave in on the way up: think about spreading the floor with your feet.

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, Back

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