Here’s the way to test your hip, knee and ankle function: Stick one leg out in front of you. Keep it there. With the standing leg, squat down as low as you can SLOWLY (20-30 seconds down), butt to heel. (see the pic to the left). Inhale and “push your heel through the ground” and come back up, SLOWLY, i.e. 20-30 seconds. Squeezing your fists together for some extra “juice” to get back up. Another technique that will help is increasing the pressure in your abs by power breathing. Don’t lose the pressure in your abs in the bottom position or it will be much more difficult.
You can also see that this simple exercise will build tremendous strength, power, balance, and coordination in your lower body and even your abs since they are stabilizing the spine pretty hard. It doesn’t take long to work up a pool of sweat if you do them slowly.
These will make your two legged squat workouts feel like a stroll through the park. After you learn how to do 10 or so one legged squats, your other bodyweight workouts are going to feel like a joke.
But if your hip, knees and ankles are not working optimally, this exercise will not be possible for you.
The reason is pretty simple. They either don’t know how to do it and/or they don’t know how to teach you to do it. I’ve been to 11 fitness professional workshops in the past several years and know this to be true from experience. Fitness professionals, for the most part, are completely clueless about the inner workings of this amazing exercise.
But think about it, a two legged squat is squatting your bodyweight (minus the weight of your…Click Here to Find Out More
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