If you're bored of standard squats, single leg "pistol" squats can progress your muscle gains. Pistol squats are challenging but working on them can improve balance and fix weaknesses. You can ...

Single-leg exercises “challenge your hips, knees, and ankles, and make the stabilization muscles have to work harder,” says ...

Single‑leg work fills the gaps that big bilateral lifts can miss. You’ll build strength where you’re actually weak, fix ...

The Single-Leg Squat is an all-purpose exercise for strength, balance, power and lowering risk of injury. According to a study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, it can't be beat ...

The single-leg squat is a squat movement that’s performed on only one leg. It adds a balance and stability challenge to the traditional squat. These are sometimes called pistol squats. This type of ...

The single-leg squat – also known as a pistol squat – is an advanced variation of the regular squat. Besides impressing onlookers by being able to do this squat, it will also benefit you by building ...

Jon-Erik Kawamoto, MSc, CSCS, CEP is a Strength & Conditioning Coach with 15 years of experience. He’s a co-owner of JKConditioning, a health and fitness business in St. John’s, NL, Canada, a retired ...

Learn how to do the Bulgarian split squat with perfect form to build leg strength, improve balance, and target quads, glutes, and hamstrings.

Standing on one leg seems like a simple enough task. But — as anyone who has wobbled their way through it or crashed out in a yoga class while attempting a tree pose can tell you — it can be trickier ...

Squats are one of the very best lower body exercises out there, and if you’ve ever worked out at all, you’ve certainly done them. But too many of us have never broadened our horizons beyond the humble ...

Aaron Horschig, DPT, of Squat University shared a warmup that helps you hit deeper squats. It's just a few moves, requires ...