How to do BodyWeight Squats

How to do BodyWeight Squats

Squats are something that we use all the time in our day to day life. Your legs contain the strongest muscles in your body, training them and learning how to squat again will make your life a lot easier.The body weight squat is perhaps the best lower body exercise a person can do, it works the quadriceps, glutes and hamstrings.



Basic guidelines

• Inhale on your way down, exhale on your way up. Always exhale during the hardest part of an exercise.
• Perform squats on full feet, bring you buttocks backwards and tighten your lower back muscles so that your back is arching a bit backwards.
• Use full range of motion. Stop your down going motion when your thighs are approximately parallel to the ground.

Squats for beginners

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• Position your feet slightly wider then hip-width apart with your toes slightly turned out
• Hold your hands out in front of you at shoulder height. This will counter balance your weight and help you keep your balance
• Slowly and under control bend your knees and lower yourself down as far as you can without lifting your heels off the floor and then after a brief pause at the bottom push your weight back up until you are back at the starting position
• Do 10 to 15 repetitions to finish one set before resting. You can repeat the set, but use your own discretion as to how much you can manage

should i do these b4 leg pressers

Just do these and no leg presses, or better still weighted squats.