SIT-TO-STAND EXERCISE

SIT-TO-STAND EXERCISE TECHNIQUE

• Sitting up tall in your chair, with your feet shoulder-width apart.

• Shuffle forward to the front of your chair.

• From this position, bringing your feet back, so your heels are behind your knees.

• With your hands on the chair, on the arm-rests of the chair, or on your thighs, you’re going to lean forward at the hips so your nose comes over your toes.

• Now stand up putting equal weight through both feet/legs.

• Make sure you fully extend your legs at the knees and the hips.

• And to sit down, hinging at the hips, reaching for the chair and sitting down.

• Make sure to keep your chest up throughout the exercise.

• Repeat for the set repetitions.

• Also, make sure that your knees remain in line with your toes, and they don’t move inwards when you sit down and stand up.

  NOTE: 

• To further challenge yourself, trying placing your arms across your chest or using a lower chair.

• To make this exercise easier, use a higher chair.

MUSCLES WORKED

Buttocks (glutes), thighs (quads), hips, calves, core and back.