Want To Learn the Pistol Squat? Full Tutorial!

Do you want to learn how to do the full pistol squat?

First, let’s get used to hanging out in a deep squat. This will increase our ankle mobility, which we will need to get our knee comfortably past our toes when we do a pistol squat.

If you can’t do a full deep squat yet, place your heels on an inclined surface and work your way lower over time.

Next, we can do single leg squats by squatting down and bringing one knee behind us without touching the ground.

Now, let’s do some negatives. Using a table or a bar for assistance, let’s do a full negative of a pistol squat. And instead of trying to press back up, come all the way down and bring your feet together to stand up normally. As this gets easier, remove the assistance and do a full pistol squat negative, again by lowering down and then standing up with both feet.

So we’re getting closer, and now it’s time to work the full range of the pistol squat. Using something for assistance, lower down and press back up by driving the heel into the ground to get you back up.

Add these together and you’ll be doing pistol squats in no time.

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