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Free Weight · Barbell

Barbell Squat

Muscles worked

  • Quads
  • Glutes
  • Lower Back

How to do it

  1. Set the bar across your upper back, brace, and walk it out of the rack
  2. Sit down between your hips with your knees tracking over your toes and your chest up
  3. Drive back up through your whole foot to standing

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