7 benefits of squats

Squats are considered one of the best exercises for their benefits, for the kind of functional movement that is applied to daily life.

When doing squats you move many muscles of your body: quadriceps (part of the front of the leg) adductors (part of inside), gluteus, femoral (part of back of the leg), calves and the low part of the back.

Not many exercises they move so many muscles in one movement, so doing them every day, according to the website of esfitness.com, gives you great benefits:

1. They help develop flexibility around the hips when you do them correctly and gradually increase the range of motion.

2. The muscles that you use when doing squats, are the same ones that you use to jump, run and do sprints, so you will have more resistance.

3. Squats burn a lot calories and stimulate the cardiovascular system. Not only burn calories while doing squats, but you keep burning the next 24 hours, and this for the intensity of the exercise.

4. When working muscles The longer the body, the higher the bone density of the spine, hips and legs, which helps to prevent osteoporosis , mainly in women.

5. If you add a certain weight gradually, it is an excellent anaerobic, so your muscle mass will increase.

6. With a good work of repetitions, without needing so much weight, it helps to tone the glutes, to define them and to give them hardness.

7. Improve the position , because when doing a squat, you also exercise the ABS and spinals, which work as a support to maintain the position of the back.

Squats demand a lot of effort, so it is necessary to do them correctly to avoid injuries , but perform this exercise returns much more than any other. Therefore, they are recommended at the beginning of a routine fitness , once the previous warm-up is finished and always under the supervision of a specialist or trainer.

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