Hands down, squats are one of the best exercises you can perform.
From lubricating knee joints, building core muscles, toning your legs and working your hamstrings, calves, abdominal muscles and the ones in your lower back, squats are essential when you are working out.
Plus, they offer you the comfort of doing them anywhere, in your room, office or the park, without requiring additional equipment!
For women particularly, squats are an excellent way to tone the glutes, hips, and thighs, which women complain as their most problematic areas.
Regular squats also guarantee improved flexibility, better digestion and fat loss in less time, apart from the calorie burning.
Above all, if getting a perfect butt is on your mind, doing squats is the one thing you should never miss out on.
How many does it take to get the perfect butt?
Getting the perfect butt isn’t easy. However, squats can help you get closer to your goal. Considering that some of our daily tasks require us to squat naturally, additional exercises help shape up the butt muscles. But, there is one question on everybody’s mind-how many squats does it take to see results?
According to trainers, doing squats 2-3 times a week and performing five to six repetitions at a time, or, doing around 150 squats per week should help you do the job and reach your fitness goals. If you do this and follow this regime religiously, you can start to see the results in four to six weeks.
Squatting, if done properly and after following the right technique can prove to be immensely beneficial and get you the glute and the perfect shape you desire. Once you start doing squats on a regular basis, you will get the hang of it and with time, you can start to gradually increase the weight and variations.
You can also try to do additional exercises, which focus on your lower body fitness, like lunges, which will help shape up your glutes even better, improving your strength around the pelvic muscles as well. Improper exercise can also increase the risk of injury, so do keep that in mind.
How to perform the perfect squat:
-Start by standing your feet, hip-width apart and toes turned a little.
-Breathe in. Begin by tightening and pulling in the muscles around your abdomen.
-Holding this pose, lower your body slowly in a fluid way. Keep doing this until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
-Stay in this squat position for 5-10 seconds.
-Once done, start going up, slowly going back to the standing position.
-Do repetitions for more benefits. There should be a minimum of 60-90 seconds between each of your sets.
-Breathe in. Begin by tightening and pulling in the muscles around your abdomen.
-Holding this pose, lower your body slowly in a fluid way. Keep doing this until your thighs are parallel to the floor.
-Stay in this squat position for 5-10 seconds.
-Once done, start going up, slowly going back to the standing position.
-Do repetitions for more benefits. There should be a minimum of 60-90 seconds between each of your sets.
