Suspended Split Squat

Legs · Other

How to do it

Hang the straps so the handles are about half a metre off the floor. Face away from the anchor and put the **top of your back foot** into the handle. Drop straight down bending the front knee until the thigh is parallel, torso tall, and drive up through the heel. The strap moves, so the back foot cannot push at all and the whole load goes to the front leg, plus a lot of stability work. The classic mistake is leaning weight back: if the strap goes tight, you are cheating.

Variants

The drawing shows one way of doing it, and the technique above describes that one. Almost every exercise has variants — standing or seated, the grip, the bench angle — and is still the same exercise: if you do it another way, write it in the exercise note and you will have it every time you train it.

Also works: Glutes, Calves

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