Squat Exercises

Are you familiar with the squat? This exercise involves standing and bending your knees, which is great for getting rounded thighs and glutes of steel. Used during a warm-up or physical preparation, the squat tones your lower body by working your muscles synergistically (several muscles working together when doing this exercise).

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The squat is a must-do exercise to get toned legs and glutes

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Build your thighs and glutes with squat exercises

Squat exercises can appeal to those who are looking to enhance their athletic performance as well as those who want to take better care of their physique. As an ideal strength training exercise, it offers aesthetic benefits such as rounded and muscular glutes. That’s why our effective bodyweight muscle-building program includes it in the workouts it gives you.

Work several muscles with a single exercise

Squat exercises is an ideal because it works an entire muscle group. It activates the quads, hamstrings, adductors and glutes. In fact, the squat is useful for any sports activity and works the muscles that support your body weight and enables you to move forward. Once they’ve been developed, these muscles are more efficient during physical activity. You’ll therefore enhance your explosiveness and muscular endurance.

The advantages of the squat

Squat exercises are easy to do and sculpt your glutes and thighs. They works your entire body by creating an anabolic environment conducive to muscle building. As an explosive exercise, it requires your body to burn more calories. You’ll also enhance your functional musculature, which are the muscles you need on a daily basis. Setting down or lifting up objects on the floor becomes a piece of cake, because these movements use the same muscles that are worked while doing  squat exercises. You’ll have better balance because your stabilizer muscles will be more toned. The squat improves your overall health; doctors even recommend it to help you as you age. Lastly, you’ll enhance your athletic performance as you start to run faster and jump higher.

How to do squat exercises correctly

There’s nothing like a natural movement to take care of your body and avoid the risk of injury! This exercise is a cornerstone of our workout program and you can do it wherever and whenever you want.

The squat, a how-to

You can do squats whenever you want because they’re equipment-free. This exercise is the star of at-home muscle-building programs. You just have to follow a few simple instructions for the squat to be as effective as possible and so that your back is protected.

  • Start by standing with your feet shoulder-width apart. Point your toes slightly outward for better balance. Keep your heels on the floor as you squat down.
  • Inhale when you bend you knees and push your buttocks upward as you hold your arms up in front of you. Just bend you knees until your thighs are at least parallel to the floor.
  • Then exhale as you push on your heels to stand back up. During the exercise, keep your shins vertical and your back straight. You’ll do a perfect squat when your shoulders stay vertically aligned with your body as you move.
  • If you want even more results, contract your abs when you squat down. Doing this will strengthen your abdominal wall at the same time.

Improve your explosiveness with squat jumps

With its many variations, the squat exercise enables you to fully improve your balance and explosiveness. As soon as you’re a squat pro, you can try the pistol, or one-legged, squat. This is the hardest squat exercise.

But first, try the squat jump that will keep things interesting as you gradually increase the difficulty of this exercise. Get in the traditional squat position. Descend until your thighs are parallel to the floor and exhale as you jump up as high as you can. Be sure to absorb the shock by landing on the balls of your feet and bending your knees. The less noise you make when you land, the better you’re doing the exercise.

You can also do squats with push-ups, pull-ups and abs exercises in order to build a balanced physique. The fitness trainer will change the difficulty if you’re a beginner, so that every athlete can make progress at their own pace.

Get the legs and glutes you’ve always dreamed of with the FizzUp squat

FizzUp online fitness training gives you all the squat variations as part of a no-equipment workout program. You’ll sculpt a coordinated physique as you receive tips and encouragement from a real trainer.

With the proper guidance, your efforts will pay off with workouts lasting only 20 minutes, three times a week. You’ll get a training program that’s completely personalized according to your goal and needs, guaranteeing effective exercises for fast progress.

The workouts in the FizzUp training program will revolutionize your view of exercise, because they’re equipment-free and use only your body weight. That’s how you’ll build a coordinated physique and your strength and endurance in minimum time.

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