Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to get moving and shape up.

My name is Brock Armstrong and I am the Get Fit Guy.

When you squat with your heels firmly on the ground and your back nice and straight,

you will feel your hamstrings, your quads, your Achilles tendon, your lower back, and your groin

gently release all the tension of being a member of today's chair-sitting, heel-wearing society.

Squatting is one of the best movements that you can do with your body because it hits

so many different muscle groups.

The obvious muscle groups are the quads, the hamstrings, and the glutes, but don't forget

the core and the trunk muscles that have to stabilize your torso and help you maintain a nice

neutral spine. Now according to a study called muscle activation in loaded free barbell squat, the mighty squat

is a complicated movement that allows all of your body parts to work together and grow stronger

as a single unit.

When compared to something like a single arm bicep curl, the squat makes a much more significant impact

on your body and can increase a greater variety of performance parameters.

And you don't even have to do a weighted squat to see these benefits either.

By simply getting down into a squat position, you can stay loose and mobile, as well as undo some of the

mobility and strength issues that we see from sitting in chairs the majority of the day. So, don't get

scared off thinking this entire podcast is going to be all about squatting, the exercise kind, that's often characterized by a large man with an

enormous barbell across his back. I actually hesitate to call squatting an exercise at all,

unless, of course, you are that large man with the enormous barbell across your back, but

aside from that, the squat, simply squatting can be as natural as

taking a seat. And I'm not kidding about that. The vast majority of the world engages in squatting

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