Shrimp Squat

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Technique

How to perform Shrimp Squat

1. Stand on your right foot and hold your left ankle behind you with your left hand.
2. Reach your right arm forward for balance and keep your right foot planted.
3. Bend your right knee and hip to lower your left knee toward the floor, allowing your torso to incline and your stance knee to travel forward.
4. Descend only as far as you can control while maintaining your ankle grip and balance; do not drop onto the rear knee.
5. Press through the planted right foot and extend your right knee and hip to stand.
6. Complete your repetitions, release the ankle, and repeat on the other leg.

Programming relevance

Muscles involved

Primary targets: Vastus Lateralis, Vastus Medialis, Gluteus Maximus.

Calisthenics graph

Progression relationships

These relationships describe graph position, not personal readiness.