Smith Machine Squats

Form Cues

• Position yourself in the smith machine with the feet right under the bar or slightly in front of the bar

• Step into a comfortable roughly hip wide stance

• Brace your core, keep the back engaged

• Lower slowly by breaking at the hip and knees

• Squat down until you can’t get deeper or your back starts to round

• Pause briefly at the bottom

• Come up with control

• Avoid the knees dropping in or back rounding a the bottom (butt wink)