Smith Machine Squats

Muscle Worked

Outside Sweep of the Quadriceps

Instructions

• Go to the squat rack, bring your arms up under the bar, keeping the elbows high, cross your arms and grip the bar with your hands in order to control it.
• Then lift the weight off the squat rack. Step back and part your feet for balance.
• Bend the knees and, keeping the head up and your back straight, lower yourself until you are parallel to the floor.
• Drive back up to the starting point.
• Do this exercise slowly and strictly, making sure you keep your back straight.
• Try and look in the mirror while doing squats for your forms sake.

Don'ts

• Don't bring your legs all the way back down where you lose the tension in your abdominal muscles.