Free weight barbell squats may be functionally superior to hack squats for older adults.

“I wonder how much of that you're going to get with machines versus doing Olympic lifting or like a squat um deadlifts things like that with a barbell um and I don't know I think I maybe talked a little bit about this with Lane and I don't I think I he he said you might get a little bit more bang for your buck with with using like a barbell or doing doing um you know a squat with a barbell versus like a is it a hack squat”