1-Leg Squats check a lot of boxes.

✅Knee & Hip stability

✅Knee & Hip strength

✅Stabilization in all three planes

✅Ankle mobility

✅Zero spinal loading

✅Extremely low back friendly

✅Can easily regress by shortening the range of motion

✅Can easily progress by adding load via chains, vests, or an anteriorly loaded weight

We will usually program these for 3 sets of 5-8 reps per leg as an assistance exercise on days that we perform a heavier bilateral lower body exercise like a Trap Bar Deadlift.