Squats are mostly known as a leg exercise, but they promote body-wide muscle building by catalyzing an anabolic environment. Squats are also one of the best functional exercises out there; promoting mobility and balance and helping you complete real-world activities with ease.
Given below there are some important advantages of doing squats:-
Builds Muscle in Your Entire Body
Squats obviously help to build your leg muscles but they also create an anabolic environment, which promotes body-wide muscle building. In fact, when done properly, squats are so intense that they generate the release of testosterone and human growth hormone in your body, which are important for muscle growth and will also help to improve muscle mass when you train other areas of your body aside from your legs.
Prevent Injuries
Most athletic injuries involve weak stabilizer muscles, ligaments and connective tissues, which squats help strengthen. They also help prevent injury by improving your flexibility and balance.
For toned legs and butt
Squats target the quadriceps, hamstrings and gluteus. The basic movement is a fast way to build lean muscle, which results in tight, toned limbs. We know it's a myth that you'll "bulk up" by lifting weights, so don't be afraid to squat a challenging weight.
Maintain Mobility
Body-weight squats are a great way to increase range of motion in hips and ankles, which will help reduce lower back and knee pain. It's a safe and effective way to improve mobility without taxing the joints.
Increase Functional Strength
Very few exercises are as natural as the squat. The squat builds pure, functional strength. Not only do they build huge amounts of muscle, the squat also forces your body’s nerve networks to work your muscles more efficiently.
Increase Sprint Times
Squatting allowed athletes to increase their sprint times by a significant degree. Squatting helped athletes run faster and jump higher, which is why this exercise is part of virtually every professional athlete's training program.
Increase Upper Body Strength
Due to the large amounts of growth hormone and testosterone released by squatting, your upper body will grow larger and stronger.
Give You Great Abs
If you’ve got a body fat percentage that’s low enough, and you squat regularly, you’ll quickly find that you have no need to do a lot of work on your abs.
While you cannot selectively burn fat from your stomach, squatting burns fat and builds muscle. While squats primarily develop strength and power, heavy squats increase your lean muscle mass, this increases your ability to burn calories at rest over the course of the day.
Important Note – Don’t do squats if you don’t plan on using proper technique. This is how you injure yourself; this is how you get bad knees. Take the time to learn how to squat, and start by using only the bar with no additional weight. Only once you’ve mastered your technique should you begin progressing with weights.
