Do 'Air Squats' Anywhere

air-squats

Try this today

• Step 1: Stand with your feet hip-width apart with your toes pointed slightly outward. Your arms should be hanging loose by your side. Then engage your core muscles and push out your chest slightly by pulling your shoulder blades toward each other.
• Step 2: Bend your knees and push your butt and your hips out and down behind you as if you were sitting in a chair. Keep your weight on your heels and make sure your knees are over your toes, but not beyond them.
• Step 3: Come down until your thighs are below parallel to the ground, or as far down as you can get them. Make an effort to keep your knees externally rotated (don't let them fall inward). As you lower yourself, raise your arms in front of you no higher than parallel to the ground. Make sure to keep your torso upright.
• Step 4: Straighten your legs and squeeze your butt to come back up, lowering your arms back to your side.
• Do 10 squats, rest 30 seconds, and repeat three times.

Why

Squats are an excellent exercise and have many variations. Air squats are body weight-only exercises, so they require no equipment; you can do them anywhere.