Touch & Go Squat Exercises

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm going to demonstrate how to do a touch and go squat, using a chair. You can use it at home. If you're in the gym, you can use a bench. All we're going to do, is put your hands along your hips. We're going to touch the end of the step, or the end of the chair, and then sit back up, so it's just a quick tap and go. You want to do these back to back. Try to do about 25-50 repetitions. You're just going in a quick motion, in and out. Make sure your knees don't cave in. Keep them in line with your second and third toes, and just drop and push, touch and go. If this is easy for you, step away from the chair or the bench. Drop down a little bit lower. Hands are going to come up here. Elbows to the knees, push up and down,just touch and go. We don't want any weight on this, because we want this to be a fast twitch muscle group work, as opposed to slow twitch. Just drive it up and down. Get that heart rate up. Get the legs firing. Relax the shoulders down the spine, chest open. Again, we want to do reps to failure on this one, because 8-12 reps isn't going to be enough probably for you, so just try to build it up one rep at a time, and do 2-3 sets, and that's how we do our touch and go squats."