Mark Ottobre shows how to do a slant board squat with a barbell. Keep your heels elevated, ribs down, and imagine headbutting the roof to stay upright. Use a 4-second descent, 2-second hold, then controlled ascent.
This is a slant board squat with a barbell. What you're gonna need is a slant board. Then you're gonna be standing on the slant board, heels up nice and high. I always like to have some toe contact on the floor. What you wanna do is you wanna bring your ribs down and then stick your sternum up so your abs are nice and engaged. Yeah. Then this is all about knees over toes. So what you wanna do is you wanna draw your knees over toes and you want your bum to touch your ankles. Now, do not lean forward, you're going to come straight up. The cue I like to give is try and get your head to headbutt the roof. Put a bit of a tempo in there. So 4, 3, 2, 1, all the way down and standing up. Sometimes when I program these, what I do is 4 seconds down, get my client to hold for 2 seconds. And it's not a relax for 2 seconds, it's a hold for 2 seconds, then straight back up. So 4, 3, 2, 1, straight back up again. This is all about getting your knees over your toes. This is a slant board squat with a barbell.
