How To Do Dead Lifts Video

Add deep squats to your workout to really strengthen your legs. Learn how exercising with squats can strengthen the legs in this fitness video.

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Feet wider than shoulder-width
Toes pointed out
Keep abs tight and chest high
Squeeze quads at top of movement

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Michelle is a personal trainer at a gym in NC and has been a personal trainer for several years. She is certified through ACE and is a certified aerobics instructor as well. Her Specialty is weight lifting and she enjoys training aspiring female body builders as she is one herself. She focuses on helping her clients stronger, healthier, and sending them out feeling better for it. The best part of her job is when she see people living a better life as a result of the physical training. She was also a Marine physical trainer before she was employed at the gym.

MICHELLE TRAPP: I'm going to show how to do deep squats now. I want to start off by saying, I wouldn't recommend this as a beginner exercise or if you've got any kind of knee issues, this probably isn't the squat for you. It's a great quad mass builder for all you guys. Again, squat, we're working the legs. We're working the glutes. Deep squats going to get us really low and we're going to power back up. So we're going to set up just like our normal squat. Split stance, set that bar just a little bit lower than shoulder height so you can get up under it and be able to unrack it. I'm going to set up for my deep squat now. When I deep squat, I'm going to have my feet just a little wider than shoulder width apart, my toes pointed out. Just like the exercise says, it's a squat; we're going to go pretty deep, abs tight, chest up, head up. My seat's coming back. I'm coming all the way down to the floor and back up. I inhale on the way down, exhale on the way back up. My chest stays high. My cores stay tight. My knees are not coming over my toes, but as you notice, my butt's dropping to the floor all the way down, power up through those heels, squeezing those quads at the top, not a high-rep exercise. Eight to 10, good, anywhere from 3 to 4 sets of work. Start with lighter weight. Check and make sure all is okay on your knees, because we are going below parallel, so we're putting a lot more stress down there, down and up, down and up. When you're finished, walking it forward, racking it, that's your Deep Squat. Remember, with your regular squat, chest stays high, head stays up. On the back of your neck with the bar, you're going to sit back in that chair. You're going to keep those knees from going over your toes all the way down to the ground. Keeping everything up high and coming back up top, that's how you do a full squat.

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