Exercise Guide

Shrimp Squat

A single-leg squat holding your back foot behind you, lowering until the back knee touches. Harder than a skater squat and a step short of a pistol.

AdvancedStrengthPushCompound
Form
Shrimp Squat - Start position
Start
Shrimp Squat - Mid position
Mid
Shrimp Squat - End position
End

Illustrations by Bryl Lim for Workout Guide, after Everkinetic. Used unchanged under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Details

Primary Muscle

Quads

Equipment

Bodyweight

Difficulty

Advanced

Category

Strength

Force

Push

Mechanic

Compound

Secondary Muscles

GlutesHamstringsCore
How to Perform
  1. 1

    Stand on one leg and bend the other behind you, holding the foot with your hand.

  2. 2

    Keep your chest as upright as you can and lower on the standing leg.

  3. 3

    Touch the back knee lightly to the floor.

  4. 4

    Drive back up through the standing foot without letting go of the back foot.

Tips
  • ★Let go of the back foot and let it trail if the balance is beating you - that is the skater squat.
  • ★Put a cushion under the back knee so you are not chasing the floor.
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