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Eight benefits of squat
Whole muscle exercise

Squat helps to exercise leg muscles (including hip, quadriceps, hamstring and calf), at the same time, it also creates an anabolic environment and promotes the exercise of whole body muscles.

In fact, when you complete the squat correctly, it will trigger the release of testosterone and growth hormone in your body. This is very important for muscle growth and helps to improve muscle quality. Besides training legs, it also trains other parts of the body.

Therefore, squatting can help you improve the overall strength of your upper and lower bodies.

Functional training makes your activities easier.

Functional training helps your body to carry out real-life activities. Compared with the fixed equipment in the gym, squat is a very good functional training. When people start hunting, they start to use "squatting posture", which will help you exercise your muscles and improve their work efficiency, as well as promote flexibility and balance. All these benefits help your body to exercise more effectively in the real world.

Burn more fat

The most effective way to burn more calories is to increase your muscle mass. For every pound of muscle added, you can burn 50-70 more calories, so if you add 10 pound of muscle, you will burn 500-700 more calories than before.

Maintain flexibility and balance.

Old people, or middle-aged and elderly people, strong leg strength is an important factor to maintain flexibility and mobility, and squat can significantly improve leg strength. It can exercise your core and stable muscles. This will help to keep your balance and improve communication between the brain and muscle groups.

This can prevent you from falling, preventing fractures and osteoporosis, and avoiding excessive calcium supplementation.

Prevention of sports injuries

Most sports injuries involve the weakness of stabilizing muscles, ligaments and connective tissues, and squatting helps to strengthen them. It can help you reduce sports injuries, improve flexibility (squats can improve the range of motion of ankles and hips) and balance.

Improve sports performance

Whether you are a manual worker or a mother who runs behind Xiong Haizi all day, you should know that research shows that the ability to squat is closely related to the ability to exercise. Squat helps athletes run faster and jump higher, which is why every professional athlete has this training.

Adjust the back, abdomen and whole body.

Few exercises can train many muscles like squats, so it is a very good multifunctional exercise-tightening your back, abdomen and legs. In addition, squat helps to exercise muscles, which participate in regulating sugar and fat metabolism and insulin sensitivity. Help you avoid obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Promote waste removal

Squat can improve the pumping of body fluids, help remove waste and deliver nutrients to all tissues, including organs and glands. They help to improve the transport of feces and the normal intestinal movement of the colon.