How to Do Squat Exercises

This video in the Fitness category will show you how to do squats correctly. This exercise is meant for the legs. The easiest way to do this is to sit down and stand up using a bench. The bench should be about knee height. Technically the line from the ankle to the knee and t ...more

Michelle Berger explains how to do a Bulgarian or single leg squat. Have a bench behind you and step forward 2-3 ft. A good way to start is to have something to hold onto in the beginning. Simply place your leg behind you on the bench, lower yourself down, lower down perpendic ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to perform a sumo squat. It is the same as a regular squat, except the legs are extended more wider. The bar should be setup a little bit below your shoulder level. Go into a split stance when picking up the bar. Keep your core muscles ...more

Learn how to do squat thrusts. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits Squat thrusts, or burpies as they are commonly known, are much beloved by trainers, athletes and bodybuilders alike because they combine the benefits of the squat with the added bonus of ...more

Learn how to do mock military pull ups on a squat rack with your feel on the floor. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits These military pull-ups push your back muscles to their limit; modifications mean you can work up to the hardest level in stages. Mu ...more

Learn how to do a single cable handle high, alternate swim stroke, with a wide pull-down, and squat. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits For a back workout that hits your muscles from multiple angles, alternate swim strokes with pull-downs, using a cabl ...more

Learn how to do a single cable scissor squat and row. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits The single cable scissor squat and row works the legs and back in unison, training strength, coordination, and balance. Muscles Worked Back Legs Starting Positio ...more

Learn how to do single cable squats and rows. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits The single cable squat and row works the legs and back in unison, training strength, coordination and balance. Muscles Worked Back Legs Starting Position Set up a cable ...more

Learn how to do stability ball hammer dumbbell curls. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits Hammer curls are tough to begin with, but doing them while balancing in a modified squat against a stability ball engages your whole body in a battle for stability ...more

Learn how to do tuck jumps. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits Tuck jumps are the last word in simple power leg workouts. Jump into the air as high as you can, bringing your knees up in mid-air, and then land light—even if your muscles are shaking. St ...more

Learn how to use a heavy boxing bag to do squat thrust push ups with power double punches. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits The squat thrust push-up develops explosive leg power plus chest and shoulder strength. The power double punch is a straight sh ...more

Learn how to use a medicine ball to do a squat thrust with a wall rebound. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Starting Position Stand upright facing a wall at a distance of five or six feet, with a medicine ball held in both hands. Your hands should be at chest ...more

Learn how to do alternate dumbbell swims and dumbbell cross punches. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits The back-to-front reach of a freestyle stroke followed by the lateral motion of cross punches trains the entire complex of muscles in the shoulder—de ...more

This video shows you how to do interval exercises to build muscle in your legs. Darin Steen, creator of the Fat Loss Lifestyle 12-Week Body Transformation Program, shows you how to do the king of all leg exercises... The Squat! Not just any squat, the smith machine back squat. ...more

The crab walk is a great exercise for the hips and butt. This exercise is fun, yet challenging. It is relatively easy to perform, although it can be demanding for some. You will want to ensure that the legs are thoroughly warmed up before doing this exercise. Begin the crab w ...more

Follow along as we are given an awesome leg blasting workout, it will help you tone your glutes, thighs, and calves. -The first exercise is a forward/backward lunge: Start by going into a forward lunge and immediately move into the backward lunge. (Have a weight in each hand) ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to do a body weight workout for beginners. Body weight workouts are recommended for those viewers who don't have access to a gym and would like to exercise. Body weight workouts require no equipment, only the mass of your body. Users w ...more

Personal fitness coach Yuri Elkaim demonstrates how to do an outdoor fat burning workout. You'll need a rubber exercise band and a tree or a pole for the workout. First, warm up by going for a 5-minute jog. Then do a 30-second squat press. Next, do a 30-second set of pushups. ...more

Your knees support much of your weight. Exercise can keep your knees healthy by strengthening the muscles surrounding the joints. Strengthen your knees with this helpful tips. You Will Need: • Strength exercises • Joint supplements (optional) Step 1: Strengthen quadriceps ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to jump higher and run faster doing plyometric exercises. Start out with an alternating exercise that you will rotate through all of and get progressively stronger within 10 weeks. In week on, start out with 15 speed squats. Then you will have 30 ...more

In this video, we learn how to strengthen weak knees. The first exercise you can do is a shallow squat. This is where your feet will be facing forward and knee width apart. Grab onto a pole in front of you and squat down slightly squatting through your skills. Next, you can ho ...more

This video shows you how to perform a BOSU ball squat thrust. A beginner and a more advanced version of this exercise are both shown. First you put the BOSU on the ground flat side up and you reach down and grab the sides of the BOSU. You then kick your legs out into a push-up ...more

Splits and squats are not two words you want to hear together when describing an exercise, but luckily the love child of the two is a lot kinder and gentler than either. In this video, you'll find out how to perfect the Bulgarian split squat, which consists of lowering one le ...more

The Standard Squat focuses on the quadriceps and the glutes, but it also involves the hamstrings, the calves, and the lower back. In this fitness tutorial, SSG Ken Weichert, Army Master fitness trainer, teaches you the proper form for the squat exercise. Watch this how to vide ...more

The use of heavy duty resistance bands (also referred to as "Powerlifting Bands") as a strength training aid has become increasingly popular over recent years. The bands are used for accommodating resistance; a technique that involves creating maximal tension throughout a full ...more

Watch this video for warm-up exercises you can do before you swim - or before any sort of workout - to build up your heart rate. By changing the plane of your body several times within the three-minute warm-up you'll force your heart to work harder, which means a bigger calori ...more

Work those glutes with this free home fitness guide, which presents a number of simple exercises that you can perform at home that will help you to firm your posterior—namely squats and hip lifts. Tune into specific muscles when exercising isolated areas with help from a perso ...more

In this tutorial, Coach Burgener gives a few pointers on the Power Clean. The Power Clean is a olympic lift exercise that starts in a position similar as for the Deadlift. Pull the barbell onto your shoulders. Catch the bar in the front squat starting position. Watch this how ...more

Learn how to exercise by doing the tuck jump. EXERCISE DETAILS: Primary Muscle Group: glutes Secondary Muscle Group: abs and obliques, calves, hamstrings, hip flexors, quads Base Movement: jump, squat Training Type: plyometrics and power Level of Difficulty: 7 Sport Specific: ...more

In this video, we learn how to train legs to avoid failure using post exhaust training. First you will do a hack squat, which is where you will hold dumbbells and place your heels on a step, then squat down through the heels. Keep your chest up while doing this and you will wo ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to do a quick workout with super sets. First exercise you can do is a squat to cable row. Use a resistance band to do this by placing it around a post or having someone hold it. Back up to build resistance, then plant your feet parallel and hip w ...more

Learn how to exercise by doing the split squat with back leg on stability ball and front leg on half round flat up and parallel. EXERCISE DETAILS: Primary Muscle Group: glutes Secondary Muscle Group: calves, hamstrings, quads Base Movement: split squat Equipment: half round fl ...more

Learn how to do speed super legs exercises. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Exercise 1. Bend your hips and knees quickly into a squat. Your weight should be evenly balanced between your heels and the balls of your feet. Allow your back to arch normally as you ...more

In this tutorial, we learn how to do wrestling conditioning with Jennifer DiDonato. To start out, do 20-50 squats followed by push ups and other drills to get warmed up. This will help you avoid pulling a muscle and let everyone work together. It's important to have a trainer ...more

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to tone their arms and legs with a 10 minute, 30 rep workout. This entire workout routine will target the arms, legs, abs/core, aerobic and balance. There are 6 exercises in this workout. The exercises are: plank rows (with weights), b ...more

Cindy Mastry explains how yoga exercises can help with the union between mother and child for a woman who is pregnant. The word yoga translates to "union." The first exercise demonstrated is the Hindi Squat. While working strength and balance, the woman holds herself in the pe ...more

Here is an easy way to get in a quick workout in your busy day. First off start will forty-five seconds of bicep curls with an exercise band. Next with a deck of playing cards squat down and place one at a time on the ground in front of you. Focusing on keeping your back strai ...more

The use of heavy duty resistance bands (also referred to as "Powerlifting Bands") as a strength training aid has become increasingly popular over recent years. The bands are used for accommodating resistance; a technique that involves creating maximal tension throughout a full ...more

The sumo squat works all leg muscles, although it can also be used to target the inner thighs. This exercise can be performed with or without weighted resistance. The key to this exercise is to stand with the feet beyond shoulder width. The wide stance forces the inner thigh m ...more

Squats are one of the most famous and practical of all of the exercises that you can do in the gym,. This video features a personal trainer correcting some common mistakes that people make while doing squats, and providing advice on the proper form for squats that will allow y ...more

The BOSU sounds like a children's toy, but it's actually a half ball that aids exercisers in toning their stabilizer muscles and their core. The BOSU ball adds an element of instability to your workout, causing you to work more muscle groups at the same time to do double the ...more

Sculpt the ideal body. Learn some exercises to add to your fitness training to sculpt your body in this health and fitness tutorial. To sculpt your body you should do squats, work obliques, do push-ups, and try bar dips. With this how to video you can sculpt and tone your perf ...more

Getting in shape doesn't have to mean applying lots of pressure on your body. In this fitness how-to video SELF Magazine demonstrates a low-intensity full body workout. Watch and learn how to do the following exercises: lawn mower, booty lift, Russian set up, single leg squat, ...more

Liz Rodriguez demonstrates that to keep yourself fit when you are pregnant, you should do the following: squats, stretching lunge, and cat curls. These pre-natal workouts require a bench, footwear, and a mat. In addition to keeping you, these exercises can keep your baby healt ...more

Squats are important not only for toning your glutes and thighs, but if you do them often enough they also increase flexibility and core strength, making surviving a day at the office easier. Watch this video to see how to squat more deeply than you ever have before. You'll b ...more

You'll be a stallion in water (without the drowning) once you perfect this difficult training move to improve your swimming skills. By balancing heavy weights on your shoulders and arms while doing push presses and squats, you'll tone areas of the body you didn't even know yo ...more

Ali Alami with Fit Climb demonstrates how to get in shape for mountaineering. You can do these exercises in a park or at home. Your core and lower body are important in mountaineering. First, find a wet, wood bench that is four to six inches off of the ground. Do step ups to w ...more

Pushups are a great workout at any level of bodybuilding. However, if you feel that you're ready for something more advanced, dumbbell rows are a good option for the next step in your advancement. They offer a new challenge and a different way to work out the same muscles you ...more

You don’t need to be in the gym to get super toned arms and legs. Stay outdoors and with only an exercise band you can get a difficult and muscle specific exercises that will turn any arm flab into defined muscle. Want Michelle Obamas arms? How to get toned arms and legs exer ...more

This is Fitness for Dummies. Learn how to do squats properly. Squats exercise your butt, hips, and thighs, but primarily strengthen your quad muscles. Doing squats requires no equipment, but adding a barbell intensifies the workout. Do squats with weights. Click through to wat ...more

This fitness how-to video demonstrates proper form and technique for performing a front squat with both kettle bells and dumbbells. Exercising with weights is a great way to strength train muscles. Follow along with this video workout to see how easy it is to do front squats w ...more

Watch this instructional yoga video to do the stoop pose. This yoga pose is also called the Hindi squat. The stoop pose is a simple and efficient exercise, but you should make sure you are doing it right. The squat pose opens up the hips and pelvis. Use a blanket or mat to pro ...more

The dumbbell squat is a great exercise for building the quads, hamstrings and glutes. With this how to video you can add the dumbbell squats to your workout and watch your legs grow!

Learn how you can do a reverse squat press using a weight with this fitness tutorial. The reverse squat press is a great exercise for a full body workout with emphasis on the legs, gluts and arms.

In this video series, learn how to exercise on a balance board. Our expert trainer, Steven Vargas, shows you how to do a variety of workouts using the board. Learn how to do push ups, squats, and lunges. Steven shows you to work your abs, triceps, and biceps. Part 1 of 15 - Ho ...more

There are a number of exercises you can do to improve your jumping and running. Start by standing with one leg forward and one leg back with both feet pointing forward. Keep the pressure on the heel of your front foot and position your back foot on its toes. Lower by bending y ...more

The large quadriceps muscles on the front of the thigh are important to target when strength and weight training to build overall muscle mass. Learn how to do quadriceps exercises in this strength training video. Take action: squats and lunges strengthen quadriceps, keep back ...more