Cossack Squat
Trains the quadriceps, with help from the hamstrings and glutes. No equipment needed. None of our programs use it yet, but you can add it to any session you build.
Free to use. The app works out every weight and times your rest.
In the programs
None of our programs use the Cossack Squat
It is in the app, so you can add it to any session and log it like anything else. It is just not written into one of our 50 free programs. If you want a quadriceps exercise that is, there are 16 on the Quadriceps page.
Muscles worked
What Cossack Squat trains
Technique
How to do the Cossack Squat
- Stand with your feet much wider than shoulder-width apart and your toes turned slightly out.
- Shift your weight to your right leg and bend your right knee, keeping your left leg straight with its toes pointing up. Lower your hips towards the floor, with your right knee tracking over your right toes.
- Push through your right foot to return to the middle.
- Repeat on the left side. Alternate sides for the desired number of repetitions.
Form cues
Getting it right
- Keep your chest up and your back straight as you sink to the side.
- Only go as deep as you can while keeping your working heel on the floor.
- Keep your knee in line with your toes.
- Exhale as you push back up and inhale as you lower.
Substitutes
Swap Cossack Squat for
The app's swap picker ranks these the same way: same muscles, similar movement, similar equipment.
Let the app run the Cossack Squat for you
Durata picks the weight, times your rest and adds load when you earn it. That works on any of our 50 free programs, or on a session you put together yourself.