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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- And we are the most famous physical therapists
on the internet--
- In our opinion, of course, Bob.
- I feel like we should have some way to include Alex
in that introduction.
- Well, he's gonna get included.
Everyone notices Alex.
- All right, today we're gonna talk about
power squats at home, no weight needed,
wow, you're really proclaiming a lot there, Brad.
- I've--I'm really excited about this one because
I've been doing it lately, I like it, and
there's a lot of benefits, and we're gonna
get into that shortly.
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- There you go, there you go.
- OK, are you ready, Alex?
- I'm ready, Brad.
- OK, before we get into it, you just kinda get loosened up
a little bit, 'cause Alex is--
- My quads are a little sore from the last work video
we did a a couple weeks ago.
- Alex has been helping, uh, helping us out with
some of these exercise videos.
We need someone young 'cause, you know,
this is a young and we're a little older.
- Yeah, for us to talk and work out now
is getting tough to do.
- Right. (laughs)
- So again, the title talks about power squats,
I like that name, it's at home, and so many of us
want to do exercises at home, but you may not
have a lot of room at home or you don't wanna buy
the iron, the barbells, the bench, all that stuff
that goes along with it, because you know, maybe in a year
you won't be doing it anyways.
- Yeah, that's right. (laughs)
- Or you just, you know, you want to find options that
are much more convenient, and I think this is exactly
the thing for you.
Cost is minimal, the amount of space it takes
is even less minimal, and they're great exercise
not only for the quads, the glutes, the shoulders,
but Alex said, boy, this really takes a lot more balance.
- This is full-body, yeah, yeah.
- And you're gonna get some core workout in as well,
so everyone's kind of "What's going on?"
We're gonna simply use this: In the last five years
bands, banding have become exercise tubing with handles.
- Yep.
- So, and, we need to find a way to connect it
to the floor at about ankle level.
You can do it however you want, there's things you can
get with it--we use the wall anchor because they're
really handy to use.
- We have those in our garage, we use 'em.
- And I do have to mention, Brad, now normally
with the wall anchor kit you get three,
but if you go to our link below on the website,
you're gonna--we're gonna throw an extra one in there,
which you're gonna want to have, because we're
gonna be coming up with some things that you're gonna
need that extra arm band, like a pull-up bar
and stuff like that, but--
- And this could be one of them.
Now, what I'm gonna show you, the nice thing
about how the bands work is you can double them up
or actually, for one of these it's gonna be a
double system, and for the other one, for those people
who really want more of a workout, you can see we got
four bands, and they all fit in the anchor very easily,
so simply, we're just gonna put that in there
like that, even them up, we're good to go.
Alex, are you ready for the power squat?
- I'm ready.
- So you're gonna face away from the wall
and assume the position, Alex.
- Assume the position.
- So he's gonna get a wide stance.
- For balance.
- For balance as--as stability, like a football player.
- 'Cause it's gonna pull you back.
- Oh yeah, I lost my balance a few times practicing here.
- Yeah, so it's good for that.
Now, Alex, you can't see it on the camera,
but Alex has excellent body posture here.
His back is arched, he's in that athletic stance,
and he's feeling strong, his head is up,
he's looking up toward the ceiling,
and he's gonna use the resistance.
Go ahead, Alex, let's go down.
Now, you're gonna--this is not like using a barbell.
It's not as complete as that.
But again, if you're the average person that wants
to stay in shape, this is gonna do more--
- This will give you plenty.
- Plenty, believe me.
Al, you keep going til you get to 10,
and we'll just watch, but Alex is doing a nice job
of breathing as he puts the pressure up.
- One thing, in order to maintain your posture
a lot of times, you do want to keep the head up,
because as soon as you bring the head down,
everything rounds out, so this is--
- Yep, we don't want that.
- So.
- What number you on, Alex?
- 28.
(laughter)
- Have you been counting?
- No.
- No, all right, that's close enough.
- About 10.
- Now, what I like to do is three sets of 10
when I do my resistance exercise.
It's kind of one of those standards that has passed the--
- Sure, test of time.
- The test of time.
Now there's another way that I do it, and you typically
have to have less resistance, so that's why we have
two bands on here, and I really like this one because
it gives me a full-body workout from the glutes, quads,
back, and we're gonna throw some shoulder and arm in there.
So again, the same posture, are you ready, Alex?
- Ready.
- Ready for what?
- Anything.
- There you--he is strong like bull.
- I'm gonna take a step away to make it a little harder.
- And that's the nice thing about the resistance,
you can change it by--where you at now?
He's gonna add the shoulders in there.
The only thing--you know, as therapists, Bob and I
were talking about this--if you're gonna add
the shoulders, it's gonna get you a lot more tired,
but if you have shoulder problems, a history
of shoulder problems, you probably want to eliminate this
and don't do this.
- I don't know that you wanna go straight up.
He's going a little chest-wise now too, so
I think you're less likely to run into a shoulder problem.
But if you go up straight up like this, you're gonna get
impingement or your crud.
But if you go straight out, he's fine.
- Let's throw in a calf raiser, watch me hit the wall.
- All right, here he's gonna go a calf raise,
look at that.
- And that's even works the calf and a little more balance.
You feel yourself tipping?
- And my abs.
- Yeah, your core is really working.
Are you--now Alex, are you getting a little tired?
Is it--
- I'm getting fatigued.
Yeah, in the shoulders, I really feel the shoulders.
- Yeah, and you can rest.
- Now hold are you again?
You don't even know, do you?
- I got this wrong the other day.
29.
- 29, all right.
- So, again, this just complements the rest
of my workout that I do with the other wall anchors
at different levels, but I--ever since I've been
doing this, it's like I'm burning some calories,
I feel--I feel--
- I bet you can dunk now.
- Oh, well, you know, Bob, I'm not sure about--
- I bet he can get out of bed by himself.
- That's right, yeah, I'm happy with that, so
very good, I hope that you make good--
- Good decisions--
- Use of this information, yeah.
- Make good decisions?
- Oh.
- Thanks for watching.