I read in an article by Mike Boyle on T Nation ( not sure if the link was posted by someone here) called "Strong Athletes, 0 Injuries" that it is much safer to do front than back squats.
He says his trainees are now only doing front squats.
Would love your advice, opinions on this.
Also my husband doesn't want me to do barbell squats ( even though we only have a light --20 or 25? barbell at the moment) until we have a squat cage.
I'd love your thoughts on this too.
In order to get a squat cage we need to rent a storage shed to move things out of our basement.
We were planning on doing this but then my husband got sick and had to be hospitalized.
He is home and getting a lot better but it's going to be a month or so before we can get going with the move, and I want to keep doing squats.
I've been doing them with dumb bells and am going to start practicing with a broom but don't know if I should start using the light barbell before I have a squat cage.
Oh and one other thing: Mike Boyle says not to do conventional deadlifts but instead do one legged RLs because they protect the back??