Squat Exercises - Health & Fitness

Hello, my name is Adam Davila, and I'm with Adam's Personal Training. My website is www.adamtraining-com. I'm going to demonstrate a body weight squat, which is the progression to a free weight squat. One of the things that you want to be aware of when you are doing a squat, is that you need to have a shoulder width, or slightly wider that shoulder width stance, with the toes going forward. The next most important thing is to have a neutral alignment in the spine, which is the natural curvature of the low back, and also the natural curvature in the upper area of the thorasic spine. When you do your squat, you want to make sure that your hips are pushed back and down, so that the knees do not go over the toes when you're doing your squat. The weight should be distributed between the ball of the foot and the heel of the foot, and the weight should be carried on the hips when you're doing the squat. I'm going to demonstrate the squat so you can see what it looks like. The body weight squat is good for getting the form down for the free weight squat, this is a great warmup for the free weight squat. I will demonstrate the free weight squat. A couple of ponts to consider when you're doing your squat is when you un-rack the bar, make sure you have the bar under control before you start to do any work. Also make sure that your chest is lifted as high as possible and that you maintain a neutral alignment of the spine. Make sure that you look ahead. Some times it helps if you look up, that will keep your chest lifted if you are having problems keeping your chest lifted.