• Assume athletic stance with feet just wider than hip width and toes slightly pointing out
• Drive hips back and lower into squat position keeping weight on heels and knees behind toes
• When tops of thighs are parallel to ground, drive forward and up, out of squat into standing position
• Repeat for specified reps

Advanced: If you can perform a squat without your heels coming off the ground, perform exercise with bar and light weight
Sets/Reps: 3x50
Hackett: You will see a lot of big guys who can’t even get into the squat position, so we use very light weight and high reps to get them into it. We already know these guys are big enough and capable of squatting 500 pounds, but putting that weight on their backs to have them squat for absolute strength isn’t important. Once we get to using weight, we begin with 95 pounds, and increase it only as their body positions improve.