Zercher Squats

Legs · Barbell

How to do it

Bar held in the crooks of your elbows, against your body, hands together in front of your chest. Squat deep with the torso as upright as possible. The position forces the trunk to work hard and lets you get very deep. You feel quads, glutes and abs. Use a towel on your elbows: that is not softness, the bar genuinely hurts.

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: Core, Glutes

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