Squat with band pulldown
Knees, back and arms all have to do different things at once, while the band keeps pulling the body out of position. The pictures below show one movement at a time, so the sequence can settle before the band goes tight.
♂Squat with bands
A man holds a squat while pulling two resistance bands down towards his chest.
About this visual support
A squat with a band pulldown is really several movements stacked on top of each other. The feet need enough width, the knees point outwards, the back stays straight and the arms pull the band down, all while the band pulls back and disturbs the balance. Spoken instructions rarely arrive in time with what the body is doing.
Here the visual support works as a reference to glance at between repetitions. One picture for the starting position, one for going down, one for the pull and one for coming up gives four checkpoints instead of a long explanation that gets forgotten halfway down. It also lets a child keep training alone, without someone standing there correcting every single rep.
Start without the band for the first few sessions. Once the squat itself lives in the body, the band can be added as one new element rather than five at the same time, and the technique gets stable before resistance enters the picture. Routined lets you assemble the session as a sequence of pictures with a time per exercise, and you can try the app for fourteen days at no cost.
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