Main Muscles Affected
- Legs
- Buttocks
- Shoulders
- Arm
Exercise Difficulty
Medium difficulty
Performing the Front sumo squat with overhead barbell press:
- Stand up straight with your feet wider than shoulder-width apart and rolled out
- Place the barbell bar in front of your shoulders, keep your back straight and palms facing forward, bend your knees and lower your buttocks towards the floor
- Control the descent and, slowly, keeping the bar still, rise with the body by lifting the bar above the head and extending the arms upwards; hold the position for a few seconds and slowly lower the bar to the starting position.
- Bring your knees past your toes
- Arch your back
- Move the bar during the upward extension of the arms
- Assume a position with your feet straight, not rotated.