Cardio Power Moves: Squats Video

Power squats mixed with cardio exercises make for a terrific total body workout. Learn how to perform cardio power squats properly from a certified personal trainer in this workout video.

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Begin with power squats
Explode & jump upwards
Keep chest out
Move into squat thrusts

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Mimi Saraiva is a former gymnast for the Brazil national team. Mimi moved to Los Angeles 10 years ago and is now a certified and licensed personal trainer and a trainer for iTRAIN.com. iTRAIN provides more than 275 workouts in its library ranging from treadmill to elliptical, cycling, strength training, and many more.

Hi. I'm Keith Irace, and welcome to Cardio Power Moves. Today's move is a squat with jumping jacks, and we're going to do two intervals of each. We're going to begin by setting up our squat. So I want you to stand hip distance with your feet parallel, take your hands straight out from your shoulders and then just start to release your hips back. Now, you can always slow down this move a little bit if you prefer. To take a look at it from the side, you want to make sure that you're releasing your hips, your knees tracked to your toes, and your weight shifts a little bit back into the heels. Let's get four more here, four, you're with me, good, three, and two, and one. Now we jack. So, easy jumping jacks are light on our feet. For my low-impact people if you prefer that option, you just go side, and side, and side, and side, right back to it. Stay with me, we have 10 seconds, light on your feet, pushing off the balls of your feet, good, four, and three, and two, and one, beautiful. We're back to that squat, set it up. Hip distance, toes forward, arms straight out, release, good, flexing from your hips, your knees, and your ankles. Not too bouncy. So it almost feels like you find the move at the bottom. Hold it for a split second, good, six more, five, sink back, four, three, push off the floor, two, and one. One more time, take it back to the jumping jacks. Let's go [DEMONSTRATION]. By low-impact people, easy steps side to side. That'll work. Yes. High impact. Push that heart rate one more time, here we go [DEMONSTRATION], ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, last three, and two, and one, beautiful. Now walk it out. Remember, you always want to give your heart rate a chance to recover, so we move until you feel like your heart rate is calm and you can speak easily. Thanks for joining us today. I'll see you next time.

Cardio Power Moves: Squats Video

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