How To Do Touch & Go Squats Video

Touch and go squats are a great overall leg workout and can be done at home or the gym. Learn how to do touch and go squats from a certified personal fitness trainer in this exercise video.

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Use a chair
Tap end of chair
Keep knees aligned with feet
Try without chair

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Amy McCauley has been a certified personal fitness trainer since 1995. She specializes in pilates, combat cardio, core conditioning and overall strength training. She works with clients ranging in age from 16 - 69. She has worked at Gold's Gym in Wilmington, NC since 2006. She loves her job because it gives her the opportunity to change peoples' lives in a positive way.

Hi. I'm going to demonstrate how to do a touch-and-go squat using a chair. You can do this at home. If you're in the gym, you can use a bench. All you're going to do is put your hands on your hips. We're going to touch the end of the step or the end of the chair, and then straight back up. So it's just quick tap and go. You want do these back to back, try to do about 25 to 50 repetitions. You're just going in a quick motion in and out. Make sure your knees don't cave in, keep them in line with your second and third toes, and just drop and push. Touch and go. If this is easy for you, step away from the chair or the bench, and drop down a little bit lower. Hands are going to come up here, elbows to the knees, push up and down, just touch and go. We don't want any weight on this because we want this to be a fast-twitch muscle group work, as opposed to a slow twitch. Just drive it up and down, get the heart rate up, get the legs firing, relax the shoulders down the spine, chest open. Again, we want to do reps to failure on this one because 8 to 12 reps is not going to be enough probably for you, so just try to build it up one rep at a time, and do two or three sets. And that's how we do our touch-and-go squats.

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