SQUAT Archives - StrongBoard Balance Board

Quickly Tone Upper Back, Legs, and Core

Quickly tone upper back, legs and core with static squat lat pulls! This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to using StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the upper back and legs but will also strengthen the core musculature and the Scapulothoracic region.

Featuring Mike Curry, ACE CPT and SBB Inventor, StrongBoardBalance.com.
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1. Grab lat bar and stand on StrongBoard Balance in first position, shoulder width stance.

2. Lean back on the platform to counter the weight coming from the bar.

3. Keeping the abs braced, lower yourself into a static squat position and pull the bar towards your chest.

4. Bring the bar back to starting position, keeping a slight bend in your elbows. Let the eccentric part of this exercise stretch the lats.

5. Be sure to keep the scapula depressed and adducted as you pull the bar just below the chin.

6. Repeat for desired amount of repetitions/sets.

Tips: Keep feet flat, toes spread, with most of your weight on your heels. Keep head in line with your spine at all times. You can also use various grips and handles. For more of a challenge, you can use a heavier weight. You can also go from a static squat a dynamic squat. Still too easy? Deepen your static squat and close your eyes.

Quickly Tone Upper Back, Legs and Core with Static Squat Lat Pulls on StrongBoard Balance Board

StrongBoard Balance utilizes MULTI SPRING TECHNOLOGY™ that works with your body to deliver the perfect amount of stimulation to keep your core musculature and stabilizing muscles engaged and contracted, while training your central nervous system, improving posture, proprioception and reaction time.

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Rev Up Your Calorie Burn with Uppercuts

Rev up your calorie burn with Uppercuts on StrongBoard Balance board. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing with StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the shoulders and obliques, but will also work the lower extremities and your entire core musculature, along with the entire scapulothoracic region.

Featuring Caysem Johnson, STROOPS Athlete.
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1. Stand on StrongBoard Balance in first position, feet shoulder width apart.

2. With your Slastix connected to each end of the base of the boardand other ends attached to each side of your Fit Stik Pro, grip the Fit Stik Pro

3. Keeping your abs braced, lower yourself into a squat position.

4. As you raise yourself back to standing position, push the right end of your Fit Stik Pro up and to the left side, across your body, using an uppercut motion.

5. Bring the Fit Stik back to starting position as you lower yourself back into a squat position.

6. As you raise yourself back to standing position, push the left end of your Fit Stik Pro up and to the right side, across your body,using an uppercut motion.

7. Repeat step three through six.

8. Repeat for desired amount of repetitions/sets.

Tips: Keep a slight bend in your knees when you come to standing. For an additional challenge, progress to a StrongStrap with more resistance. You can also deepen your squat.

Rev Up Your Calorie Burn with Uppercuts on StrongBoard Balance Board

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Squash Your Way to Stronger Abs and Toned Legs

Want stronger abs and toned legs? Try the Squat to Squash exercise with StrongBoard Balance board. This is an intermediate exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing with StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the abs and your VO2max, but will also work the shoulders, lower extremities and your entire core musculature, along with the entire scapulothoracic region.

Featuring Mike Curry ACE CPT, BMCES, and SBB Inventor, StrongBoardBalance.com.
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1. With medicine ball in hands (weight can vary), step onto the StrongBoard Balance platform, place feet up against the handles.

2. Keeping a slight bend in the knees and your abs braced at all times, raise the ball over your head.

3. Smash the ball to the ground while dropping into a squat.

4. As the ball bounces back up to you, bring yourself back to standing.

5. With ball now over your head again, repeat steps 2-5 for desired amount of repetitions.

6. Repeat for desired amount of sets.

Tips: Keep head in line with your spine and abs braced to help stabilize your back. For more of a challenge, you can use a heavier ball, and/or increase your repetitions/sets.

Squash Your Way to Stronger Abs and Toned Legs with the Squat to Squash Exercise on StrongBoard Balance board

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Advanced Squat Move to Tone Your Whole Body

The Plank-Everest-Jump-Squat-Progression exercise is an intermediate/advanced exercise and should be performed on a stable surface prior to performing it with the StrongBoard Balance board. This exercise is primarily for the abs, shoulders, and legs but will also work the entire core musculature, along with the obliques and erector spinae.

Featuring Noreene Gentry, NAFC PT and StrongBoard Balance Certified Instructor
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1. Start with board in front of you, placed in lateral position. With your feet together, bend down and place your hands on the platform.

2. Immediately, throw your feet back into a full plank position. Be sure to keep abs braced during this movement.

3. As soon as your feet touch down behind you, step your right foot forward, to the right side of the platform, then step back to plank position.

4. Now, step your left foot forward, to the left side of the platform, then step back to plank position.

5. Immediately, jump forward, landing both feet on each side of the platform. As soon as you feet land, jump and land with both feet onto the platform.

6. The moment your feet make contact with the platform, drop down into a squat.

7. Bring yourself out of squat position and jump back off the board, landing one foot on each side of the board.

8. Bring your hands back down to the platform.

9. Repeat steps 2 – 8 for desired amount of repetitions.

10. Repeat for desired amount of sets.

Tips: Be sure to keep abs braced during jumps. Pick up your tempo for more of a HIIT workout. For more of a challenge, you can do multiple Everests. You can also hold squat position for allotted amount of time and/or hold plank position.