Bodyweight Squat
Bodyweight Squat builds your lower-body muscles that specifically activate muscles like the hamstrings, quadriceps, glutes, and calf muscles. Doing squats can help you prepare for other strength-training exercises like deadlifts.
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Bench Squat With Rotational Chop
Bench Squat with Rotational Chop is a great exercise to increase the strength of legs, and it explicitly targets glutes, hamstrings, and quads. This exercise is also good to strengthen the core stability and rotational power.
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Instructions
- Stand in front of a bench about six inches away, and your feet should be a little wider than shoulder-width apart. Bring your hands together at arm's length and directly in front of your chest.
- Push your hips back towards the bench and simultaneously cut your arms to the outside of one of your legs. Touch your glutes on the bench, pause, then return to the starting position and repeat on the opposite side.
Tips
- Start the movement by pushing your hips back.
- Don't let your knees buckle as you squat down on the bench.
- Keep your chest up throughout the movement.
Alternative Exercises
Power Squat Chops
Power Squat Chops is a good lower body and core exercise. It primarily targets your quads, hamstrings, glutes, and obliques
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