Main Muscles Affected
- Legs
- Buttocks
Exercise Difficulty
Difficult
Performing the Hack squat with a barbell:
- Take a standing position and hold the barbell from behind your back keeping your arms straight
- Lower your body as if you were going to sit in a chair and keep your back in its natural alignment
- Lower your glutes towards the floor, stay a few seconds and then slowly return to the starting position.
- Push your knees over your feet
- Bend the elbows.