How to Do Plie Squat Exercises

Video Transcript

"ALICE MONSAERT: This hot leg exercise is called the plie. It comes from ballet and it's a little bit different than the squat because in the squat the toes are forward and the hips pushed back. Now, I want you to rotate the toes out to the side, step a little bit wider, pretend you're sliding down the wall where your head, your shoulders, and your glutes might touch the wall instead of your glutes touching the wall first. So you have to have a little bit of a turn. It doesn't have to be a lot; it can be angled in a little bit, wherever you're comfortable, and your legs don't have to be really wide. So this is your side view of what we call a plie squat. To show you from the front, again toes turned out, shoulders back, hips tucked under, and your plie squat. So in a plie squat you're targeting more of the inner thigh than just the glutes and the hamstrings. We can also elevate one foot onto the bench and perform the same movement, plie squat. Just changes the variation in the muscle, gives it a little bit tweak, little bit of different angle, and again always be able to increase the intensity by picking up a set of dumbbells, and always reversing and doing the same amount of repetitions on the other side."