Sitting to standing squats

This is an exercise to strengthen your hips and your quadriceps. We're going to do some squats from sitting to a standing position. So sitting at the front of your chair, make sure your feet are directly underneath your knees. Extend the arms out in front of you at shoulder height. We're going to lean forwards from the pelvis with a nice straight spine, push your heels into the floor, and stand up, squeezing your buttock muscles behind you. To go back down, you're going to hinge from your hips, leaning your spine forwards, sit your bottom on the chair, and then pulling back. We're going to do this again. Leaning forwards, squeeze the glutes to stand, hinging the spine forwards, and pulling back. Make sure we're breathing. And then inhale, and then exhale on the way down. You can repeat that 20 times.