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Strength exercises Β· Lower body
Weighted pistol squat
Difficulty Squats
How to perform it
Pistol squat with a weight in your hands, quads and glutes plus core involvement. A pistol squat progression β the hardest rung of the ladder, above the full bodyweight version.
Video demo
Equipment
- Dumbbells / KettlebellFree weight
Muscles worked
Front
Back
Muscles and artwork credits
- Erector spinae
- Forearm flexors
- Front delts
- Gluteus maximus
- Gluteus medius
- Rectus abdominis
- Rectus femoris
- Vastus lateralis
- Vastus medialis
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Difficulty describes how demanding the execution is. It is not a recommended training order.