Technique
- Place a Short resistance band around your thighs, just above the knees.
- Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart, toes slightly turned out, maintaining tension in the band.
- Keeping your chest up and core engaged, lower yourself into a Deep squat position by bending your knees and hips.
- Push through your heels to return to the starting position, keeping tension on the band throughout.
Form tips
- Maintain a neutral spine and engage your core throughout the exercise.
- Ensure your knees track in line with your toes as you squat down.
- Keep constant tension on the resistance band by pushing your knees out against it throughout the movement; don’t let your knees collapse inward.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
- Quadriceps
- Pelvis
Secondary
- Hip adductors
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Gluteus maximus
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris (long)
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus medialis
- Vastus intermedius
- Vastus lateralis
- Piriformis
- Obturator externus
- Obturator internus
- Gemellus inferior
- Gemellus superior
- Quadratus femoris
- Gluteus medius
- Gluteus minimus
Equipment
Appears in
Joint movements
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