How To Do Barbell Squats To A Bench Video

Squats increase strength in the legs. Learn how barbell squats to a bench will work out leg muscles in this weightlifting video.

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Stay 1 foot in front of bench
Keep core tight & chest up
Drive back up through heels

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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: Now I'm going to show you how to do a barbell squat to a bench. This is a great exercise to make sure that you are coming to just the perfect depth to really focus on the quadriceps here. It is also great if you are new to squatting and you are kind of a little bit nervous about sitting back in that chair with nothing behind you, well you have got this bench back here to insure you are not going to go anywhere. So, we are going to start the squat, racking the bar a little bit lower than shoulder height, split stance to unrack, bar is on the back of my neck back there, back on my shoulders. Now, what I'm not doing is coming with the bench between my legs, I'm about a foot in front of the bench here. My chest is high, my abs are tight, and now I'm going to execute squat, what I'm doing is I'm sitting back, and I'm tapping that bench, and I'm coming back up. Tapping that bench, and coming back up. As I'm sitting back, I'm driving back up through my heels, my abs are tight, we are working the entire leg right now, more focus on the quads, bench is keeping us at a perfect height right here, up and down. Squats, rep range is if you really want to go really heavy, anywhere from 6 to 8, lighten it up, 8 to 12, or no weights on bar, and you can rep them out, it is totally up to you; back, tap, and up. When you are finish, go walk forward, make sure that you are in the rack here. Barbell squats to a bench, remember you are standing in front of the bench, you are sitting back in that chair, you are tapping your glutes to the bench, core is tight, driving back up to the heels. That is all is there to that exercise.

How to Do Barbell Squats to a Bench Video

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