Overhead Water Bottle Squats
How to Do Overhead Water Bottle Squats
- Place a firm grip on two water bottles. Before driving the water bottles above your head, make sure that your core is tight and your chest is up.
- Push the water bottles straight above your head, locking out your elbows.
- Once you feel stabilized, slowly bend the knees and drive your hips backwards, maintaining a tight, solid core as you do so.
- Once your upper thighs become parallel with the ground, slowly push back up, returning to the starting position. Be sure to keep those water bottles fixed overhead throughout the entire movement.
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Overhead Water Bottle Squats Exercise Details
Muscles worked
Overhead Water Bottle Squats targets glutes & hip flexors and quadriceps and shoulders and also works hamstrings and lower back and middle back / lats and upper back & lower traps. Use the illustration and step-by-step instructions above to learn the movement pattern and practice proper form.
Equipment needed
This is a gym exercise. Equipment required: water bottles.
Similar exercises
Related exercises that work similar muscle groups include Cossack squats, step up with knee raises and seated single / one arm overhead dumbbell tricep extensions. Browse our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises.
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