How to do a back squat
Bar across your upper back, feet shoulder-width.
- Brace your belly before you start.
- Sit down until your hips drop below your knees.
- Drive back up through your whole foot.
What it works
You should feel it in your thighs and glutes. Strength move, hard level, for the legs and glutes.
- Coach's cue
- Brace, then sit down
- In a Medium session
- 3 × 6
- Equipment
- Barbell
- Level
- Hard
- Type
- Strength
- Works
- legs, glutes
Moves like this
Reverse lungeMedium · no gearSide lungeMedium · no gearSquat jumpHard · no gearStep-upMedium · step or box, a chair or benchGlute bridgeEasy · no gearWall sitMedium · a wall
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