Technique
- Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart.
- Push your knees forward while leaning back, so that your torso stays aligned with your thighs.
- Go on your toes and keep pushing your knees forward, until they are right above the ground.
- Then go back to the starting position, without bending at the hips.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Quadriceps
Secondary
- Pelvis
- Legs
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus medialis
- Vastus intermedius
- Vastus lateralis
- Flexor digitorum brevis
- Flexor digitorum longus
- Flexor hallucis longus
- Flexor hallucis brevis
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Balance
Joint movements
Progressions
Deep sissy squat
Elite
Regressions
Half sissy squat
Novice
Assisted sissy squat
Intermediate
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