Cossack Squat
Squat wide and shift the weight to one bent leg, the other leg straight to the side, then switch. Also called Lateral Squat.
- Pattern
- Lunge
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Works
- Adductors, quads, glutes
- Loads
- Hips, knees, ankles
If something hurts
Not medical advice. Sharp pain, numbness or swelling needs someone qualified to look at it.
Each swap below spares one joint.
No knee or ankle loading; the hip stays still while the thigh moves.
When it stalls, these usually help
Direct work for your quads, which this lift also depends on.
Direct work for your glutes, which this lift also depends on.
How Swolver coaches it
This lift is read from your own sessions. When it goes flat for four weeks, Swolver names the likely cause in plain words, such as weekly sets that dropped, and the one change to make. The rules are all on the method page.