Stay tight. Squeeze the bar, tighten your abs, and keep your chest up. A strong upper body position protects your lower back.

Whether performed with a barbell or a pair of dumbbells, squats are the OG when it comes to enhancing strength and size in our lower body. This compound exercise hits a multitude of muscles, including ...

Building body strength through fitness training is just one of many parameters. Equally important are explosiveness and improved coordination, for example. Box jumps are particularly effective for ...

Squats and lunges are both effective moves that are commonly included in lower-body workouts — but they’re not interchangeable. Each one challenges your muscles in a unique way that translates ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Squats are one of the major compound lifts, and countless variations—back squats, goblet squats, split ...

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Fix yourself in a sissy squat stand with the roller up against your shins, so that your shins are perpendicular to the ground. Then begin to sit back into a squat, keeping your torso upright (unlike a ...

A split squat, also known as a Bulgarian split squat, is an intermediate-level exercise that mainly targets the muscles of the lower body. The split squat exercise is just as the name suggests — you ...