The Single-Leg Squat is an all-purpose exercise for strength, balance, power and lowering risk of injury. According to a study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, it can't be beat ...

If you're bored of standard squats, single leg "pistol" squats can progress your muscle gains. Pistol squats are challenging but working on them can improve balance and fix weaknesses. You can ...

One of the first things to go for athletes as they age—aside from their hips—is their knees. Years of sprinting, jumping, and heavy squatting take a serious toll on the joints, especially around the ...

Olympic snowboarder Chloe Kim won her second career gold medal for Team USA in Beijing. Kim says a single-leg focused workout routine helps build lower-body strength to improve control. She mostly ...

It’s called the “shrimp challenge,” but, unfortunately, there’s no food involved. Instead, it focuses on a difficult movement called the shrimp squat, and TikTok users have shared more than 69.8 ...

Try standing on one leg for 30 seconds. Now the other one. Not so easy. As we age, this ability to balance on one leg declines more dramatically than other signs of aging such as grip and knee ...

Regular step-downs can improve frontal-plane control and reduce knee valgus. ‘That lowers risk for ACL, patellofemoral and ...

If you're bored of standard squats, single leg "pistol" squats can progress your muscle gains. Pistol squats are challenging but working on them can improve balance and fix weaknesses. You can ...