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Air Squat
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Air Squat

Legs & Mobility

Muscles worked

LegsQuadsGlutesCore

How to do it

  1. 1
    Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, toes slightly turned out.
  2. 2
    Initiate by breaking at the hips and knees simultaneously.
  3. 3
    Descend until the hip crease is below the top of the knee — full depth.
  4. 4
    Keep your chest up, heels on the ground, and knees tracking over toes.
  5. 5
    Drive through your heels to stand, squeezing your glutes at the top.

About this movement

The air squat is the foundation of all squat movements. It builds lower body endurance and mobility, and is used in high-rep conditioning workouts to accumulate leg volume without added load.

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