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Strength exercises Β· Lower body
Safety bar box squat
Difficulty Squats
How to perform it
Safety bar squat sitting down onto a box, for quads and glutes. Differs from the safety bar squat by the box, which controls depth and adds a pause in the seated position.
Equipment
- Safety squat barFree weight Β· 30 kg
- Squat rackMachine
- Plyo boxBodyweight
Muscles worked
Front
Back
Muscles and artwork credits
- Biceps femoris
- Erector spinae
- Gluteus maximus
- Rectus abdominis
- Rectus femoris
- Transverse abdominis (not on the surface map)
- Upper traps
- Vastus intermedius (not on the surface map)
- Vastus lateralis
- Vastus medialis
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Squats
Exercise family Β· pattern: Squats
1 family Β· 10 variationsDifficulty
Difficulty describes how demanding the execution is. It is not a recommended training order.