How to Do Plie Squats

Video Transcript

"The next exercise I'm going to show for your lower body is called pile squat. The plie squat is a little bit different from your regular squat that I showed you previously in that it works the muscles on your inner thighs a little bit more, the adductor muscles. To set up for the plie squat, I'm going to go ahead and start with a nice, wide stance. Toes are pointed out, but your knees are in line with your toes. As you can see, my knees are directly over my toes, so that tells me that I'm in perfect alignment. Okay? From here, once you're set up with your abs in tight, you're standing nice and tall, I want you to head and sit down in that chair. I'm not sitting forward; I'm sitting back, keeping your abs tight. As you come up from this position I want you to think about tightening your glutes. If you're not thinking about the muscle working, you won't work that muscle as effectively. So really think about the muscles you're working, in your thighs, your glutes. Sit back down and again, squeeze tight and hold. Now you can switch. I want to show you this, the plie squat, from behind. Again, it's a nice, wide stance. Lower your body down toward the ground and squeeze tight and hold the glutes. You can increase the pace of the tempo a little bit. You can even hold isometric ally, and you can come up half range of motion."