39. Back Squat

I started working out since I was 18, but then I never considered those time as working out because I only started to take squat seriously at the age of 22. Since then, my strength had increased 250%, from merely 40 kg back squat to 100 kg back squat for 5 sets of 5 repetitions.

Why squat? You may ask. Squatting is one of the humans’ most nature movements, and squatting is the core movement to work out your legs and build a strong lower body strength.

If you’re not training your lower body — legs — properly, you’re not working out, because that is half of your body.

But squatting does more than that, back squats fix your posture, strengthen your core and help you to lose fat (indirectly) because your whole body is engaged when you’re doing that.

I really want to show you how to do it, but here is where I learned the proper way of back squat — check out Stronglifts. This website isn’t selling anything, it teaches me all the core strength lifting movements in super specific details, for free. I haven’t even finished reading the whole site yet.