Water Bottle Squats
- With your feet shoulder-width apart, stand with water bottles as your sides with your palms facing each other.
- Keeping your back straight and facing forward, squat down until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
- Pause for one second.
- Pushing up from your heels, raise back up to starting position and repeat.
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Water bottle squats is a gym exercise that targets glutes & hip flexors and quadriceps and also works hamstrings. Use the illustration and instructions above to learn how to perform this exercise with proper form. Related exercises that work similar muscle groups include Cossack squats, bodyweight sumo / wide stance squats and battle rope squatting alternating waves. Browse our free illustrated exercise directory for more exercises.
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