A trainer shows why the common cue "knees out" doesn't work for squats. Instead, spread your pelvis to keep knees aligned, lock your arms to engage your core, and drive the movement from your quads. This alignment gives you better hip stability without forcing your glutes to do all the work.
You're gonna lock out your arms for me. Now your abs automatically have to switch on. Now I'm gonna go a little bit wider with your feet and you're gonna do a nice bodyweight squat and we're gonna do 5 reps. Except— stop— you're gonna lock out those arms for me. Lock them out. A little lower there. Cool. And you really don't want to use your glutes at all, do you? If I say knees out to you, right, what everyone does with knees out is they go like this. It's from my feet. I don't want it from my feet. And I start squaring like that, right? Knees out is the wrong cue. It's spread your pelvis, right? So from here, my knees are breaking and my hips are coming out. So I'm bridging everything at the same time, right? That way we get that stability through hips, because you're really relying on these quads. There we go, yeah, if you have to move— beautiful, now our knees are better.
