Category:
Legs
Equipment:
Barbell
Description:
Make sure you have put the barbell at a height where you can comfortably take it out and put it back in. Take it out and make yourself ready:
- The bar is somewhat lower than your shoulders
- The feet are quite apart and point out
- The head is in your neck and looks up
- The chest is out
Go now slowly down, till your thighs are parallel with the floor, not lower. The knees point outwards, your butt, out. Make a small pause of 1 second and with as much energy as you can, push the weight up. Make a pause of 2 seconds and repeat.
Comments for this exercise:
- Make a pause at the bottom of 1sec, at the top, 3
- Go down till your thighs are parallel to the floor
Muscles:
The diagram shows the most used muscles on this exercise
Main muscles
Secondary muscles
- Quadriceps femoris
- Gluteus maximus