Squat to Stand
Hamstrings · Hip flexors · Lower back · Calves · Bodyweight
How to do it
- Stand with the feet about shoulder-width apart and hinge at the hips to reach down and hold your toes or the fronts of your shoes.
- Keep a light hold on the toes as you drop the hips into a deep squat.
- Lift the chest and press the elbows inside the knees, keeping the heels down if you can.
- From the deep squat, straighten the legs and return to a standing hinge while you keep holding the toes.
- Move slowly between the squat and the stand for the set reps. This is an unloaded mobility drill, not a loaded squat.
- Primary muscle
- Hamstrings
- Secondary muscles
- Hip flexors · Lower back · Calves
- Equipment
- Bodyweight