27/01/2025
Box squats are a great exercise as it takes away the guess work from knowing if you have squatted low enough or not, set your box to the desired height (usually parallel or slightly below) and you hit the same correct depth every time! This is also trains your movement pattern to hit the same depth when squatting without a box. Another benefit of box squats is producing more power "out of the pocket" (from the bottom position), by sitting on the box we relax our hip flexors and release tension from our hamstrings, this takes away the 'spring' effect out of our muscles/tendons/ligaments that most people use to bounce the weight back up again. Instead we have to re-engage everything from the bottom position and use pure muscle power instead of built up tension in ligaments and and tendons to drive the weight back up.
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