Fit and Fine by Kamal Singh CSCS: Are you ready to squat?

Are you someone who loves this basic and essential exercise? Here’s why it’s important to incorporate it in your workout

This is a question that I asked a friend. He had just started training for fitness in a spanking new gym and wanted to know if he could just head over to the squat rack, load a bar and start squatting. I told him that is one way of doing things. The other way would be to get a proper assessment, work on whatever appears in the assessment, then go right ahead and squat.

Can you hold the side plank for 30 seconds (Shutterstock)

A squat or a deep knee bend, is a strength exercise in which a trainee, goes from a standing to lowering his hip till at least his thighs are parallel to the floor and then stands back up (Shutterstock)

Assessing the squat