• Put your shoulder blades on a bench and cross one leg over the other. Put one foot on a low box or plate.
    Start with your hips up.
    Drop your hips and then push your hips up toward the ceiling.
  • Put your shoulder blades on a bench and cross one leg over the other.
    Start with your hips up.
    Drop your hips and then push your hips up toward the ceiling.
  • Measure your shoulders against the bar to make sure you're even. Wrap a pair of lifting straps around the bar. Hold the ends of the straps. Throw your shoulders under the bar. The bar should be digging into your neck slightly.
    Make sure to push your elbows up to the ceiling for the entire rep. To make sure you don't get too pitched forward.
    Use the squat stance you would use for a back or goblet squat. Push your hips back to initiate the squat. Break at the knees until you hit parallel depth.
    Squat back up to a standing position.
  • Sit on the ground with a bench behind you. Place both feet on a plate or low box. Have the barbell over your legs just above your hips.
    Lean back against the bench so that your shoulders are resting upon it, stretch your arms out to either side using the bench as support.
    Raise the weight by driving through your feet and extending your hips upwards. Support the weight with your shoulders and feet.
    Slowly extend as far as you can, and then slowly return to the starting position.