ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2021
Effects of Stance Width and Barbell Placement on Kinematics, Kinetics, and Myoelectric Activity in Back Squats.
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- Effects of Barbell Position and Squat Depth on Trunk and Lower-Extremity Muscle Activation During the Back Squat in Healthy Adult Men.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Article
- The effects of bar positioning, stance width, repetition, and load on muscle activity during the barbell back squat.PloS one · 2026Article
- Competency and Confidence in Qualitative Biomechanical Assessment of Exercise Technique Among Exercise Professionals.Journal of strength and conditioning research · 2026Article
- Relative Strength Does Not Influence the Sticking Region Among Recreational Trained Participants in Squat.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Mechanobiological and neuromuscular responses to foot-position variations during front and back squat exercises.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Biomechanical analysis of conventional and sumo deadlift.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Are Diminishing Potentiation and Large Extensor Moments the Cause for the Occurrence of the Sticking Region in Maximum Free-Weight Barbell Back Squats among Resistance-Trained Males?Journal of human kinetics · 2024Article
- A Multi-Experiment Investigation of the Effects Stance Width on the Biomechanics of the Barbell Squat.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Barbell placement and stance width both affect lifting performance in the back squat around the sticking region. However, little is known about how these squat conditions separately could affect the lifting performance. Therefore, this study investigated the effects of stance width and barbell placement upon kinematics, kinetics, and myoelectric activity around the sticking region during a three-repetition maximum back squat. Nine men and nine women (body mass: 76.2 ±11.1, age: 24.9 ± 2.6) performed back squats with four different techniques, such as: high-bar narrow stance (HBNS), high-bar wide stance, low-bar narrow stance, and low-bar wide stance where they lifted 99.2 ± 23.6, 92.9 ± 23.6, 102.5 ± 24.7, and 97.1 ± 25.6 kg, respectively. The main findings were that squatting with a low-bar wide stance condition resulted in larger hip contributions to the total moment than the other squat conditions, whereas squatting with an HBNS resulted in greater knee contributions to the total moment together with higher vastus lateralis and less gluteus maximus myoelectric activity. Our findings suggest that training with an HBNS could be beneficial when targeting the knee extensors and plantar flexors, whereas a low-bar wide stance could be beneficial when targeting the hip extensors.
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