How To Use A Squat Machine

Hi, my name is Ricardo Macedo and I'm here today to give some good tips and show you how to do some exercise. We are in my gym, in Kensington, London, W8, so you can find us on our website, www.r-fitness.

co.uk, so come with me and we are going to show you some tips. Here we go.

How to use the squat machine – It's simple, use basic exercise. I'm going to ask Sandy to get onto the bar, okay, and once you go into position, step a little bit more forward, Sandy. So you have to get your body in the angle like that, unhook the machine, the safety, so you get the weight on yourself, stick your bum out, keep your back straight and the way down and up.

Good. One important thing, your knee should never pass the line of your toe. Should stop here, never go over, stops here.

So like Sandy, keep going, see it's in a straight line, her knee never goes over her toe, that way she protects her joints. For this workout, the back is always straight, chest out, good perfect form. If you have a knee problem or a knee joint, just go 90 degrees, don't go over.

So if you don't have, you can extrude the muscle, giving an extra edge. Go a little bit more. Okay, make sure the weights stay secure, and that's it.

So that can be applied for any type of workout - for a dropset, 12 reps, 8 reps, 10, 15, 20, any type of workout using the same technique. So with your legs wide open for 3 squats, you can have a normal, traditional squat, always lean and go, avoid your knee to go over your toes. That's all for today, see you soon. .