Squats

Professional Rationale
A basic closed chain exercise that engages all major muscle groups in the lower extremity. When done correctly it promotes the proper neuromuscular firing patterns and decreases joint load.

Client Rationale
This is an exercise used to help strengthen your quadriceps and gluteus muscles. It also helps to strengthen your hip abductors, and adductors, making it a very functional exercise. It helps all the muscles in the your hips and legs to communicate with one another.



Instructions

• Hold onto the back of a chair or countertop.
• Bend your knees.
• Bring your buttocks back as if you are sitting in a chair.
• Return slowly.
• Do not bring knees forward.
• Bend at the hips, not the lower back.
• Do not bend farther than 75 degrees.

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