How To PISTOL SQUAT [Full Progressions] // School of Calisthenics

[@Andrew-wu4qy]

Pistol squats are outstanding for the human body. They should be incorporated into your leg routine and general fitness training. Great video! 💪🏼💯

[@davidserra6206]

Thank you for this video. As an additional suggestion, I have had great success teaching friends the pistol squat with two exercises: 1. The "roll to pistol" exercise. It starts basically with what you did at 1:20 in the video, and then use as much momentum as possible to push yourself up 2. The pistol with a medium resistance band attached to a pull-up bar. The band helps with the load, but also with the balance, which is often what prevents people with sufficient strength to achieve multiple reps of pistols.

[@SakariMover]

Great suggestions!

[@megrefitness]

Loved this, very helpful. I'm determined to get this! Thanks for the tips.

[@thlp6872]

Any tips in reference to the first progression in being able to keep your feet flat on the floor to complete the actual progression?

[@asunraychan]

I think you need to practice ankle mobility.

[@paultttownsend3168]

Thank you this is fantastic

[@MuhammadKhan-bw1tg]

These progressions are nice! Thank you for this

[@SchoolofCalisthenics]

Glad they help

[@ARIA_112]

👏👏👏nice progressions

[@JoseFernandez-gi7cv]

Great progression. Thanks 👍🏻

[@avatarandarmy485]

Wow I can't do the first one correctly and I was already practicing the 3rd progression, this is.by far the best I've seen on youtube.

[@60SecondCalisthenics]

Awesome idea! I love the example of standing on the box while doing the pistol squat with pauses at different levels. Thanks for a new idea in my training. 💯 👍🏾 💯

[@fredrichardson9761]

Really helpful video, thank you! Really looking forward to trying these out.

[@soorajsucheendran5631]

Thanks for the video

[@JuJu-pk5kp]

Thank you, this is really helpful.

[@BcottStudios]

For me, pistol squat feels impossible. I have a long journey to be able to do one.

[@felixtamayo2484]

Great progressions... I love you georgie

[@roberthuman8091]

This is very helpful!

[@WhoDat2504]

Very nice explanation!👍🏻

[@yaddayaddason8040]

hi ! that was a great and helpful instruction, thank you very much ! do you have any recommendation for how many sets and reps how many times a week i should practice this to get the best results ? thank you very much in advance ! warmest wishes

[@bopiyeff]

Nice video! Thank you!

[@davelane4055]

Thanks Mate

[@trillizdwaytv6098]

Keeping my knees touching my toes my part most definitely

[@Greg_Chock]

How do we make it harder once you can do the full pistol squat without adding weight?

[@AquelaGringaMineira]

But my question is what do you do after you know which progression to start at? Like should I do as many one legged squats as I can until I’m dead tired? Should I just do 3 sets of 12 on each leg? Honestly it’s boring to do the same movement over and over but would I really make an improvement if I just did 10 single legged squats each day? Could you give me some sort of goal??

[@PS-nm8wk]

Thank you! I can do 3 full pistol squats (I elevate my heels by a few cm though), but I'm having trouble progressing to more. Any tips? Do I do my 3 and then a few of the easier versions shown here or rather go for more reps, say 10, of the regressions?

[@Asdayasman]

Pauses. Find different points on the way down _and_ up where you can't pause for more than a couple seconds and then go on to complete the rep. In your next set, pause at those spots for 1s per rep, then 2s, then 3s, etc.

[@PS-nm8wk]

@@Asdayasman that's a great idea, thank you!

[@expertvillageidiot]

I have knee issues where I can't kneel so that my heels don't touch my bum. Hopefully this will help?

[@dinuw4581]

Mate just try stretching. I had this for so long but after stretching in that position, stretching/strengthening my hip flexors it helped a ton. Do u have crunchy knees also cuz we might have the exact same thing

[@AnnoyingNewsletters]

I think I pulled something just watching this. 😅 My physical therapist doesn't want me doing any squats of any kind.

[@jabbersneeze2399]

or you can just wing it with no support till your legs man up

[@neskarraksen]

My tibia is bowed making it impossible to track knee over toes

[@anoooooj]

Lol she makes 1.06 look so easy 😂

[@DianaMoon11428]

I don't see how the box makes a difference. You're just doing the squat on a higher level. Confused.

[@freddychopin]

Squatting on the box means you don't have to keep your unused leg held aloft--as can be seen, it's able to go almost straight down rather than having to be extended forwards. This permits a great deal more control over the movement of the active leg.

[@MrCmon113]

That makes it WAY easier. Half of the difficulty is the leg that's in the way.

[@whatsmylogin]

The progression on a raised surface was the most useful one for me. You can build up the strength in your lifting leg without being distracted by the other leg.

[@jk28416]

I wish a British Callisthenics channel could spell 'Callisthenics' the British English way with two 'll's