Squat mainly trains quadriceps femoris, sartorius (front thigh), biceps femoris, semitendinosus (back thigh), gluteus maximus (hip) and gastrocnemius (calf), and all kinds of stabilizing muscles contain almost all the muscles in the leg, so squat is also considered as the best action to train the muscles in the leg.
Squat can meet all kinds of fitness needs, whether it is muscle gain, fat loss or strength.
Squat for muscle circumference: When fitness men talk about increasing the whole body muscle circumference, not just the thigh circumference, they will also think that squat is the real king. This is because when doing squats, all lower limb muscles need to participate in squats, and a considerable proportion of upper limb muscles also participate in training to maintain the stability of the back barbell and the balance of the whole body. It can be said that squat can make every muscle group of your upper and lower limbs grow rapidly.
As mentioned above, weight-bearing squat can train many muscle groups, which can not only stimulate quadriceps femoris, biceps femoris, hip muscles and adductor muscles, but also train calf muscles to some extent. After a period of training, muscle groups have formed muscle memory, and their coordination will be much better, so it will be much easier to do any other free-weight movements, and you can also train with greater weight.
Squat can open the blood circulation of many muscle groups, and the rapid blood circulation can promote the content of synthetic hormones in our body to soar, including growth hormone, testosterone and insulin growth factor, so it can also effectively promote the expansion and growth of muscle cells.
Squat can not only increase muscle, but also reduce fat. Studies have found that squats consume 50% more calories than leg exercises. Because squat uses enough muscle groups, the energy consumed by a single movement is much higher than that of other movements, and the fat-reducing effect of squat is stronger than any other lower limb training. Therefore, for people who want to lose weight, squatting is also a very effective action.
In addition, in daily life and various sports, there are a lot of actions similar to squats, which are very close to the way ordinary people squat directly. It can be said that everyone is born with "simple" retraining actions; If you are diligent in training squats, you can increase a lot of activity and mobility, significantly improve your living ability and sports performance, and reduce the chance of injury.
For the fitness god, there is another very important factor-squatting for strength.
If the fitness god can squat vigorously, it shows that his overall strength is relatively strong. Squat is the most technical strength exercise, especially when you gradually increase the load, the frequency and risk of injury will increase significantly.
If your skills are better, your burden will be greater, but the chances of injury will be smaller, so technology is definitely the first and most important.
In the squat, when you lower your hips backwards, your biceps femoris will continuously transmit strength to the quadriceps femoris and buttocks. When you stand up, the lower back and abdominal muscles always provide strength for you to stand up stably without shaking back and forth or even falling down.
If the overall strength of squat becomes heavier, the strength of other auxiliary muscle groups will also become stronger, so it is not so easy to encounter insurmountable peaks in the face of flat bench press or other movements.
To sum up, I think it is also the reason why many fitness gods love to squat. Because there are so many benefits of squatting! More data show that squats can improve heart function, and severe squats can help treat and prevent osteoporosis!