Weighted Sissy Squat

Legs · Bodyweight

How to do it

Standing, holding something with one hand, let **the knees travel forward** while your body leans back in a straight line from knee to head. Lower until you feel the quad maximally stretched, then return. It is the exercise that stretches the quad most under load. You feel it right above the knee. Start with a short range: it bites far more than it looks.

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.

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