Can squats slim your legs?

As people in today's society are getting busier and busier at work, they have less and less time to go outdoors and participate in sports. Coupled with the current diversification and enrichment of material life, the state of overnutrition prevents our bodies from getting more exercise, which leads to fat accumulation. Especially the fat in the legs is the most troublesome, so slimming legs is a problem that many friends have to face. So can squats help slim down your legs? Now, please join me in today's study.

1: Squats are an effective exercise for thigh training. The squat happens to be the exercise that requires the greatest lung capacity and a strong heart. The standard for squatting is to keep your back and waist straight and your hip joints lower than your knee joints. Incorrect technical movements may damage the knee joint.

2. Squat Classification

1. Supported squat

The barbell is located above and behind you, with your arms straight, supporting the barbell with a wide grip, and then doing squats.

2. Front Squat

The barbell is in front of the neck, and the correct position of the horizontal bar is on the clavicle and the deltoid muscles of both shoulders so that the weight of the barbell is shared by three points. Lift both elbows, with the elbow joints located in front of the vertical plane of the horizontal bar, and the upper arms as close to horizontal as possible so that the anterior deltoid muscle can support more weight.

3. Back squat

Place the barbell behind your neck. The key points are to raise your head (very important), straighten your chest and back, retract your shoulder blades, place the horizontal bar accurately on the raised trapezius and deltoid muscles, raise your arms to the sides, and hold the bar with both hands.

Compared to other leg exercises, squats can improve your flexibility and coordination more. Since the squat is a movement that spans two major joints in your body (hips and knees), it can improve your overall coordination and stability better than simply training a single part, such as the front, back or inner thigh. In addition, for some people who have poor posture due to poor flexibility in the back or posterior thighs, the correct squat posture can improve your flexibility and fundamentally correct the problem of incorrect body posture.

I believe that through the above learning, most friends already have a standard answer to the question of whether squats can slim down the legs. Squats are not difficult for us to do in our daily lives. We just need to find time to do them. But I also hope that my friends can master the standard movements of squats and do them according to their ability, so as to achieve the effect of slimming legs without straining our knee joints.