The Squat

Being able to SQUAT properly is essential to your well-being. The SQUAT can greatly improve your fitness level and keep your hips, back, and knees stable and functioning as you get older.

Not only is the SQUAT not detrimental to your knees, it is very helpful in the rehabilitation of damaged or delicate knees, due to the fact that SQUATS strengthen the quadriceps and this in turn stabilizes the knee. In fact , if you do not do SQUATS, your knees are not healthy (or fit) regardless of how free of pain or discomfort your knees are ( this is also true of  your hips and back).

The SQUAT is a vital component for a healthy, active life (and is done every time you use the restroom!!!).

One of the best ways I have found to teach my clients to perform a body weight squat properly, is to have them first stand over a bench or step and practice sitting down on the bench and then standing up again without locking the knees, body weight is over the heels, and looking straight ahead ( not at the floor), arms extended in front of their body for balance.

You can squat just about anywhere and the squat burns a lot of calories due to the fact that you are using and working the largest muscles in your body, the quadriceps, gluts, calves , and hamstrings.