Can squatting help thin calves?

Horse stance was originally the basis of martial arts training, and now it has become a physical exercise. Horse stance can train the body's endurance and muscle strength. Of course, appropriate horse stance can consume leg calories and burn leg fat, thereby slimming the calves. Of course, there are some tricks to the horse stance. If you don't master them well, it will easily make your body tired and cause overdevelopment of your calf muscles, which is not conducive to slimming your calves.

Horse stance is the most basic stance in practicing martial arts and one of the basic skills before practicing martial arts. There are sayings like "You need to stand in the stance for three years before learning martial arts" and "You need to stand in the horse stance before learning to fight." The saying "If you practice boxing without practicing skills, it will all be for nothing when you get old" means that if you only learn the moves in the boxing routines without actually training the gravity and endurance of your whole body muscles, your practice will eventually become a mere fancy move.

When squatting in horse stance, your feet should be separated slightly wider than shoulders, in a half-squatting posture. It gets its name because the posture is like riding a horse. If you do the horse stance well, you can strengthen your kidneys and waist, strengthen your tendons and replenish your qi, regulate your essence, energy and spirit. It will also make your lower body stable and your balance good, making it difficult to be knocked down, and it can also improve your body's reaction ability.

Horse stance is the basic stance training adopted by most Chinese martial arts schools. Some of the very few boxing styles, such as Xingyiquan, also have stance training, such as Santi Shi, but there are some differences in appearance between the stance training of internal and external boxing styles, and both are based on horse stance.

There are two main purposes of squatting in horse stance: one is to train leg strength, and the other is to train internal strength.

The above introduces some basic common sense about the horse stance. If you want to slim down your calves by doing the horse stance, it is best to go to a fitness center and consult a fitness trainer. The fitness trainer will develop a reasonable way to slim down your calves based on your individual circumstances. This will help you slim down your calves faster. If you do it yourself at home, the results are often not very good.