So what are the benefits of squatting?
1. Strong thighs
Squat is an excellent way to exercise your thighs. In the gym where the crab man is rampant, the squat with heavy load will be a highlight of the gym, and at the same time. If the foundation is not laid well, like building a tall building, can he still build a tall building?
2. Strengthening of core muscles such as abdominal muscles.
Compound movements, such as squats, are very good actions to strengthen core muscles. As an important stable muscle group, the abdomen needs to be constantly activated and strengthened to help the body resist the heavy weight of squat, so that the body can challenge more weight.
3. Help you jump higher
Squat as a lower limb movement, the action mode is from bottom to top against gravity, similar to the jumping action mode.
Strengthen bones
Squat can not only enhance the strength of muscles and ligaments, but also improve the bone density and bone mineral content (mineral elements with loose bone mineral content). Strength training constantly stimulates bones, and the body's response is to strengthen bones to adapt to long-term exercise.
5. Healthy knee joint
Just as calluses grow when hands are under pressure, ligaments, tendons and connective tissues thicken when joints are under pressure. Strengthening the muscles attached to the knee joint through muscle strength training will also increase its stability. Studies have shown that the bones at the tendon junction have also become stronger, further strengthening the joints.
6. Improve physical flexibility
Any movement needs some flexibility, especially squat. Good squat requires good flexibility of hips, ankles and thoracic vertebrae. These joints are flexible enough to reduce many sports injuries and pain problems.
7. Run faster
Squat can first make you have more leg muscle strength. Sufficient leg muscle strength is one of the necessary conditions for you to get more propulsion at each step, and it is one of the necessary conditions for faster speed.
8. Increase the rate of body fat consumption.
Squat, as a compound exercise of the whole body, needs a lot of muscle participation, and muscle participation will digest more calories in it.
9. Resist stress
Everyone knows that exercise can relieve depression and improve the body's ability to cope with stress, especially weight-bearing training. Squat makes every nerve in your body tense, which greatly improves your concentration and refuses to disperse at all.