Bodyweight Squats - Exercise ideas for Personal Trainers HD

Go to www.fasterglobal.com for a free course for Personal Trainers. Body weight squats are a great way of performing body weight exercises to help achieve results for your Personal Training clients. The squat is a whole body movement that can be driven by technique or by the goal of motion, depending on your own Personal Training style. Using 1 leg squats rather than 2 leg squats is ideal with a body weight workout because it allows the non-dominant leg to work hard without having the option of bailing out. This can lead to a less coach dominated Personal Training Session. This video has three bodyweight squats for you to try. All three could form part of an outdoor circuit, an indoor group class or a one to one session. The exercises if done with the right intensity and over the right amount of time, would work perfectly as part of a warm-up, cool-down or the main personal training session. Exercise 1 is a Bodyweight Squat with opposite leg reach backward. This movement brings an opposite rotational of the pelvis, over the squatting leg, to the one that helps proprioceptively engage the glutes. Which in basics means that the range of the squat can increase and the activation of the glute muscles will be smaller than in a squat with the opposite leg travelling forward. Exercise Two is a Bodyweight Squat with opposite leg traveling forward This squat will turn the pelvis in a plane that will help the squatting leg to proprioceptively engage the glutes earlier. However this is not an agressive enough turn to stop range of motion early and is a very effective way of improving the two leg squat. This is sometimes called a pistol squat and can be performed on a block to allow for an even greater depth. In future videos I will show better how to get the glutes involved more on the descent, but these exercises will reduce full range. Exercise Three - Body Weight Squat with Opposite Leg Rotating Across the body. In this squat, the movement of the pelvis works not only to remove the proprioceptive urgency of the glutes to help get out of the motion, it also moves the center of gravity of the client to move the knee in an exaggerated abducted position on the descent. In a controlled environment, with a range of motion that is comfortable for the client, then this is a great way of training the body to handle / experience forces that can cause ACL and MCL style injuries. This is a great later stage rehab exercise or an earlier stage injury prevention (well at least a opportunity to train to handle a potential biomechanical environment that may cause a knee injury) exercise. All these exercises should be performed in a comfortable range. The opposite foot can be used to for stability as well. Performing these exercises near places where you can grab support if you go a little too far is no problem either.