Wide-Stance Barbell Squat
Wide-Stance Barbell Squat provides strength to the lower body by emphasizing the inner thighs. Using wider stance results in greater engagement of the muscles around the hips
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Wide-Stance Barbell Squat provides strength to the lower body by emphasizing the inner thighs. Using wider stance results in greater engagement of the muscles around the hips
Wide-Stance Goblet Squat works all the major muscle groups of the lower body, including the quadriceps, glutes, hamstrings, and calves. Using a wider stance increases hip mobility and stability
Wide-Stance Plank With Leg Lift is a full-body exercise that trains your core, legs, glutes, and shoulders. Using a wider stance decreases the difficulty level of the exercise.
Wide-Stance Plank with Opposite Arm and Leg Lift maintains mobility and stability in your hips, shoulders, and core. It also increases the muscular endurance and strength of the core.
Zercher Good Morning is an upper body, lower body, and hip strengthening exercise. It is a great movement to build the quads and glutes. However, this exercise is a good combination of standard squat and deadlift.
Zercher Squat activates muscles throughout your posterior chain, including your hamstrings, glutes, and lower back muscles. Zercher squats can increase your upper back strength.
A lower-body strength exercise targeting the quads, glutes, and hamstrings, performed by stepping backward into successive lunges to build balance, stability, and unilateral leg strength.
A glute-focused exercise that pairs a lifted bridge position with outward thigh pulses against a resistance band, enhancing glute max and medius activation, hip stability, and lower-body strength.
A lower-body activation exercise using a resistance band to increase tension on the glutes and hips during a lifted bridge position, improving glute strength, hip stability, and posterior-chain engagement.
A lateral hip–strengthening exercise using a resistance band to target the glute medius and outer thighs, improving hip stability, balance, and lower-body control.
A glute-strengthening exercise performed with the upper back elevated and a resistance band adding tension at the hips, emphasizing glute max activation, hip power, and lower-body stability.
A glute-isolating exercise using a resistance band to create tension as the leg extends backward, targeting the glute max while improving hip stability and lower-body control.