Band Squat
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Difficulty
Easy_to_Medium
Equipment Needed
Resistance Band
Starting Position
Find the appropriately weighted band and place it underneath the middle of your shoes.
Procedure
- Pull the band up to your shoulders and bring your elbows up and out in front of the body.
- Flex your abdominals and squat down as if you were going to sit in a chair..
- When you have a 90 degree bend at the knee push upward through your glutes and thighs and return to the starting position.
- Repeat.
Coaching Keys
- Keep abdominals tight.
- Keep the elbows up and out in front of the body.
- Push through your heels on the upward portion of the movement.
- Keep a slight arch to your back.
You Should Feel it...
In your quads, glutes, arms.
Exercise Purpose
Improves quadriceps strength and endurance and develops ski specific movement strength.
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