Can squats help you lose weight?

With all kinds of delicious food presented to our friends in modern society, more and more friends find it difficult to resist the temptation of delicious food and become addicted to it. After get off work every day, I go to the streets and alleys to look for various delicious foods to satisfy my appetite. Many of the foods they eat are fried, high-protein foods that are easy to make you fat, which leads to more fat accumulation. Losing weight is particularly important for them. So, can squats help you lose weight? Let's take a look.

1. Standing weighted squat training behind the neck

1. Action essentials: Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart. Point your toes slightly outward, place the barbell on your shoulders, tighten your abdomen, waist, chest, back straight, and look forward. Bend your hips and knees (spread your knees toward your toes), squat, bend your knees completely, let your hips and center of gravity fall onto your calves, and keep your upper body posture unchanged. Use your legs to stand up, keeping your upper body straight, and repeat the exercise.

2. Tips: Do not arch your back when practicing hip-lifting and leg-slimming exercises. The center of gravity of your upper body should be on the same vertical line as your feet.

2. Seated weight-bearing knee extension training

1. Action essentials: Sit on the exerciser, tighten your abdomen, keep your upper body upright, hold both sides of the seat with your hands, keep your calves perpendicular to the ground, and place your ankles under the resistance pads. Use the force of your thigh to lift your calf, and push your ankle joint against the resistance to straighten your knee joint and make it parallel to your thigh. Repeat the exercise.

2. Tips: When lifting your hips and slimming your legs, always maintain a sense of rhythm and do not exert force suddenly.

3. Prone weight-bearing knee flexion training

1. Action essentials.

Lie prone on the knee curl machine, hold the handles on both sides with both hands, and lift your head up. Keep your legs straight and place your back ankles under the resistance. The gluteus maximus and biceps femoris actively exert force to flex the leg, making the calf form a 90-degree angle. Repeat the exercise.

2. Tips: After completing the leg curl, you should slowly return to the original position and control the resistance device, so as to achieve the effect of lifting the buttocks and slimming the legs.

After long-term, high-intensity training, many people will feel physically tired. In order to be able to devote sufficient energy to the future hip-lifting and leg-slimming exercises, you must also pay attention to nutrition and eliminate fatigue.

The above paragraphs have answered the above questions very well. I believe that most of our friends already have the specific methods and approaches in mind. In fact, squats are relatively easy to do in our daily life, and we only need to spend a little free time to complete them. Of course, this method of losing weight will be slower and require us to spend more time and energy, but the advantage is that it will not cause any side effects to the body.