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Pistol Squat

Legs

Description

  1. Stand with feet hip-width apart, toes pointed forward, and chest tall.
  2. Extend your leg straight out; extend both arms in front of you, at shoulder level. Brace your core and look straight ahead.
  3. Slowly squat down.
  4. (optional) pause at the bottom.

Keep your (free) leg and arms extended for the whole duration.

Muscles

Front
Back

Primary muscles

  • Hamstrings
  • Glutes

Secondary muscles

  • Front deltoid
  • Biceps
  • Brachialis

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Description and images from the open wger exercise database, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (authors: minifigmaster125, Gianluca Vespignani (imported from Feeel), Clément Mondon (imported from Feeel), Luis Alfredo Figueroa Bracamontes (imported from Feeel), Gabriel Tandil (imported from Feeel), Milo Ivir (imported from Feeel)). Translations by Calix are shared under the same license. Muscle diagrams: wger project (AGPL-3.0).