I've been experimenting with a narrow stance, definitely feel the quads more. I had DOMS in the teardrop muscle which I never usually get.
Not for me. And even though the front squat does place more emphasis on certain areas of the leg muscles, it's nowhere near a complete exercise to build complete thighs. I found the only time my legs really grew (and became complete) beyond what I could achieve with back and front squat alone, was when I made use of the leg press machine. Why?Front squats if quads are the thing you want.
Back squats for overall.
Narrow stance squats, hack squats, leg press with your feet low on the plate and leg extensions with your toes pointing outwards are all what you want.I seem to also lack the inner/lower quad development. Outer quad is thick as hell compared to the tear drop.
Not sure whether this is from lack of squats or just genetic. I've been to doing a little closer stance as it is easier on the knee.
Maybe more of it could help build me more of a teardrop.
I'm going out on a limb here and stating that the leg extension is the key to a healthy strong evenly developed knee joint all exercises are great but it's the extension that is truly isolatory.
a good machine places your knee in the correct axis point, and your upper torso leaning back slightly to totally disengage the antigonsist (ham's).
at full extension and squeezing is where all the magic happens.
I'd agree with that, the only problem being that too many people place the knee in the wrong spot and try and lift the stack rather than focusing on the squeeze