Wide stance, anchored bar, glutes loaded for days.
Push your knees out over your toes throughout. Keep the bar pinned to your chest.
The wide, toes out stance opens your hips so you can sit straight down between your legs, keeping the quads loaded deep while the glutes stretch and drive hard out of the bottom. Holding the anchored bar at your chest leans you subtly into your heels, so the torso stays tall and the lower back stays quiet. It earns its place as a glute-biased squat with a self-correcting bar path, ideal for volume work without spinal loading.
The wide stance and turned out toes let you drop straight down between your legs, recruiting the glutes and inner thighs harder while keeping the torso even more upright. It also usually unlocks more depth than a standard stance.
Wide enough that your shins stay roughly vertical when you sit to depth, with toes out around 45 degrees. If your knees dive inward or your heels lift, bring the stance in a touch and rebuild.
You can load it meaningfully, but the chest hold becomes the limiter before your legs do. Treat it as a high rep, deep range movement and chase the squeeze and depth rather than a max plate stack.
