Squats
Squats
- Stand with your back straight, feet shoulders width apart, toes pointing forward with all of your weight on your heels.
- While maintaining good posture, bend your knees lowering your body straight down as low as you can (ass to grass!)
- Return to a standing position by pushing your body weight into your heels, not the balls of your feet.
- Repeat.
Muscles: Quads, glutes, hamstrings
Squats with Calf Raises
- Perform a squat.
- When you return to a standing position, push up on the balls of your feet coming all the way up onto your toes.
- Come back down and return your body weight back into your heels.
- Repeat.
Muscles: Quads, glutes, hamstrings, calves
Squats with a Knee Raise
- Perform a squat.
- When you return to a standing position, lift one knee up so that it comes up above your waist.
- Put your leg back down.
- Squat.
- Lift your opposite knee above your waist.
- Put your leg back down.
- Repeat.
Muscles: Quads, glutes, hamstrings, hip flexors
Squat - Side Step
- Stand with your feet together.
- Step your right leg out slightly further than shoulders width.
- Perform a squat.
- Bring your feet back together.
- Repeat with the left leg.
- Continue alternating legs.
Muscles: Quads, glutes, hamstrings, hip flexors