Standard squat exercises target your quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, abdominals, and calves. Other squat types, like barbell squats, work slightly different muscle groups such as your back muscles.

The benefits of squats include muscle strengthening and fat burning. However, performing a squat without learning the proper form can cause injury. A wide range of cardiovascular and strength ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Squats are one of the ...

Learn how the humble bodyweight squat can help build lower-body strength and improve your day-to-day functioning — and how to do the exercise with perfect form. Lauren spent six years at Shape as a ...

Picking up heavy weights can be empowering and rewarding, but you don't need equipment to start a fire in your leg muscles. In fact, some of the most effective exercises can be done using your own ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. To start with, I used ...

Squats are a fundamental lower body exercise that involves bending the knees and hips to lower the body into a sitting position and then standing back up. They are considered highly beneficial for ...

Squats are an excellent bodyweight exercise that requires no introduction. While primarily targeting the quadriceps, hamstrings, glutes, and calves, squats engage the core and back muscles to maintain ...

If you've been doing the same basic bodyweight squat forever, it's time to level up to doing squats with weights. No shade on bodyweight training — you absolutely can get strong and build muscle just ...