Squats are one of our favourite exercises to tone the butt muscles, legs and increase our heart rate. Our top 9 reasons why all our ladies should be adding squats to their program is below.
But all too often we see them done incorrectly which can cause unnecessary pain and soreness. So before we get to the reasons why we should squat, I thought we would go over perfect squat technique.
So now that you have the technique nailed, lets look at why you must be adding squats to your training schedule and reaping the rewards of those toned legs!
If you’re not used to doing them, squats can be more difficult, than you might have thought. And the after burn might be more than you wanted! But once you’ve mastered the technique, you can do them just about anywhere and they are a great way to tone your legs and your backside, with the added bonus of increasing the heart rate and helping burn fat and tone other parts of your body as well.
So here are our top 9 reasons why you should be incorporating squats with your fitness regime.
- Squat exercises improve your circulation, so that you can forget about the cellulite!
The muscle stretching that you get from doing the squats gets the blood pumping throughout your entire body and improves your overall health. Good circulation means that more nutrients and oxygen is getting to all the vital organs and muscles, throughout your body; and yes, you can say ‘bye, bye’ to cellulite, if you do squats regularly.
- Squat exercises are even good for the digestion
Squats help you to remove waste from the body. The muscular action of the squat exercise improves the flow of fluids in your body and eases the passing of waste through your bowels, so it helps to keep you regular too.
- Squat exercises help build muscles throughout your body
Even though you are working primarily on your leg muscles, squats also promote muscle growth around your entire body. The exercise is so intense that it creates an anabolic environment and makes the body release hormones that are vital for the growth of muscle tissue; squats improve strength of your upper and lower body.
- Squats are non-impact and don’t put a strain on your back
Other means of working out can put undue strain on your knees, ankles and back, whereas squats, being a low impact exercise, do not have this effect if you stay with the normal squats and don’t add in squat jumps or anything high impact.
- You can do squat exercises anywhere and you don’t need any accessories or equipment
You don’t need a gym or any equipment, so this extremely effective exercise can be done pretty much anywhere. You can do squats in the privacy of your own home or you can do a squat mini-work out in the park when you walk your dog.
- Your posture will improve
Benefits of squats also include improved posture. Squats are a great way not only to improve your posture, but also build better balance. The balance that you need to do them will help to sit, stand and walk tall and straight. And they will also strengthen your back muscles and help to avoid the back pain caused by sitting in a chair for too long.
- Squat exercises burn fat and can help you to lose weight
As well as toning muscles, squats burn calories too. As you tone and build your muscles, you are burning more and more calories, so squats make a superb general work out for health and weight loss, as well as being a specific muscle toning exercise.
- Squats exercises tone your whole leg
One of the greatest benefits of squats is that squat exercises tone your whole leg. Unlike any particular exercise equipment at the gym, which target only specific muscles, you use every single muscle in your leg, when you perform a squat. The act of keeping yourself balanced and upright will give your entire leg a workout, all in one go!
- Get a toned butt!
Squats tone your butt, of course! Benefits of squats wouldn’t be complete without including a butt toning in our list. Squats can firm up your buttocks in no time at all.
There is actually almost endless list of benefits of squats and these are only a few of them.
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