What Are Squats?
This exercise requires your whole body to work together and targets mainly your hips, glutes, quads and hamstrings. Ladies if you are looking to perk up those butt muscles, this is one of the main exercises to have in your workouts.
The Breakdown
Stand with your feet shoulder width apart from each other and your arms outstretched in front of you for balance. Pull your body down towards the ground into a chair position keeping your back as straight as possible and sticking your butt out behind you as far as possible. Make sure the weight of your body is felt mainly on the heels of your feet keeping in mind not to let your knees bend over the front of your toes. Sit back in your squat as if you were getting ready to sit down into a chair. As you push out of the squat, engage your quads, your hams and push through the heels of your feet back to an upright position.
Functionality
Squats encourages your upper and your lower body to work together where by improving both mobility and balance.
Variations
These are just a few different types of squats that you can alternate between whenever squats are added into your workout.
Regular Squats
Sumo Squats
Side Squats
Close Stance Squats
Single Leg Squats
Pop Squats
Workout Corner - Squats