Legs · Kettlebell · Compound · Intermediate
Front Squats With Two Kettlebells
PrimarySecondary
- Main muscles
- Quads
- Also working
- Calves, Glutes
How to do it
- Clean two kettlebells to your shoulders. Clean the kettlebells to your shoulders by extending through the legs and hips as you pull the kettlebells towards your shoulders. Rotate your wrists as you do so.
- Looking straight ahead at all times, squat as low as you can and pause at the bottom. As you squat down, push your knees out. You should squat between your legs, keeping an upright torso, with your head and chest up.
- Rise back up by driving through your heels and repeat.
Swaps on other equipment
Each has the quads as its main muscle and is also a push, on a different piece of equipment.
Other quad exercises
- Front Cone Hops (or hurdle hops) · Other
- Front Squat · Barbell
- Front Squat (Clean Grip) · Barbell
- Goblet Squat · Dumbbell
- Hack Squat · Machine
- Hang Clean · Barbell
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