Squat is an effective leg exercise which works the hips, glutes, quads, and hamstrings, and strengthens the core. When doing squats you will be using most of the muscles in your lower body. Squat is often referred as ‘perfect ass/butt exercise’
Why should you do squats?
Squats strengthen your legs and also gives you more stability in both of them. Squats help building healthy joints and bones. Also, squats burn a lot of calories because it uses a lot of muscles of your lower body. The harder you do them, the more calories you will burn!
The technique and art of the squat
Squat is not hard to do but you also need to know the correct way of doing it:
(explanation is for doing squats with barbell in squat rack)
- Stand under the bar in neutral position with your feet and toes facing forward.
- Put the bar on your traps and hold the bar with your arms that it would not fall off.
- Lift your chest high and bend your knees, placing all the weight on the heels and sit back.
- Hold it for half a second
- Now rise up pressing through the heels. Remember to keep your chest high. Straighten out until you reach your starting position.
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