Featuring Jackson Sayers, BSc (Kinesiology)

Video Title:Weight Assisted Strength Squat Duration: 58 seconds

To add a little bit of resistance and a little bit of upper bodywork when you do a squat, I like to use a Swiss ball.

It's a great tool to sort of connect the upper back with the lower back. So when you're doing a squat, if you simply have a Swiss ball in your hand, you get your pelvis into that nice position where you're gonna bend from it, and you start to move down, you can keep that Swiss ball right out in front of you.

And what it'll do is it'll really fire up your lats and your upper back, and that in conjunction with the lower body, will really make a good motion. So when you're thinking about adding a little bit of resistance in your squat, and you wanna work the upper body, use a Swiss ball, keep it out in front of you, go down into your squat position, just keep the ball out in front.

And you'll find that it puts a nice bit of resistance on the upper body in conjunction with the lower body, and then you can coordinate the upper with the lower into a nice physical motion.

Presenter: Mr. Jackson Sayers, Kinesiologist, Vancouver, BC

Local Practitioners: Kinesiologist