You Should Never Skip Squat Day

There are a lot of people who just don’t like squatting at all. It is hard, tiring, and makes you sore. Why would anyone want to do something that has those affects? They would because squats are the king of all exercises.

Squatting is the king of all exercises for many reasons, but it all stems from the fact that squatting to full depth works your glutes, hamstrings, quads, and your hips, the biggest muscles in your body. By working the biggest muscles in your body, you will see great benefits.

Some of the biggest benefits from squatting are increased muscle mass, which in turn means a faster metabolism, which can lead to increased fat loss. There is also an increase in mobility and flexibility in your hips, hamstrings, quads, and ankles.

Squatting not only has the previous benefits, but also translates to just about everything else. By being stronger, you also are able to exert a greater amount of force, you’re faster, and can jump higher. Squatting not only makes you stronger in your squat, but it makes you better at everything else.

While squats are phenomenal for your body, there is also a great mental affect from squatting, and squatting heavy. Regularly subjecting yourself to heavy squats can build incredible mental toughness by giving you the ability to really fight against something hard. Doing that can also build great confidence; handling heavy weights on your back (or front rack or overhead) makes everything else feel and seem easier because there isn’t anything as hard as having to get out of the hole with big weights. Squats are also very humbling, there is nothing like sitting in the bottom of a squat with a lot of weight and not being able to stand up, but then after some work being able to sit in the bottom of the squat with that weight and somehow get back up. Squatting humbles you and teaches you hard work.

Squatting is not only the king of exercises for its ability to improve everything physically but also teaching mental toughness. Squatting may not always be easy, but if you’re able to still go at it, you will see amazing results. So now go out and when you see that squats are part of the plan for that day, go squat, squat heavy and I promise you won’t regret it.