Technique
- Stand up, bend one leg and grab that foot with the same-side hand.
- Squat on the other leg until your bent-leg knee lightly touches the ground, then push yourself back up.
- Repeat as many times as desired, then switch to the other side.
Form tips
- Keep your knee in line with your toes.
Logging: Repetitions done on one side.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Glutes
- Hamstrings
- Quadriceps
Secondary
- Hip adductors
- Pelvis
- Legs
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Gluteus maximus
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris (long)
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus medialis
- Vastus intermedius
- Vastus lateralis
Equipment
Appears in
Progressions
Advanced shrimp squat
Advanced
Curtsy shrimp squat
Intermediate
Regressions
Single-leg lunge
Intermediate
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