Ernie Reimer, USSA’s Strength and Conditioning Coach, and U.S. Ski Team alpine athlete Julia Ford take you through a step-by-step introduction to Heavy Half Squats at the USSA’s Center for Excellence training center, in Park City, Utah. Julia says each turn presents her with three alternatives: “Go faster, crash or slow down.” She chooses the “go faster” option, and says the Heavy Half Squat helps her increase power out of her turns. The Heavy Half Squat develops hip strength but reduces the muscular stress of the more demanding full squat by reducing the range of motion. This makes the half squat a popular in-season strengthening exercise.
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from koblas on 11.28.12.
Their is a problem with this video - which is that Julia is demonstrating one movement pattern in the action section of the video. But then the stills with coaching points are for a completely different movement.
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