Exercise library / Legs
Jump squat
Legs · Bodyweight
Sets, reps and RIR
Sets3 to 5
Reps6 to 15
RIR1 to 2
Load is fixed, so progress by adding reps first, then by slowing the lowering phase, then by adding weight.
RIR means reps in reserve: how many you could still have done when you racked it. RIR 2 is two short of failure.
Muscles worked
Primary: Quads, Glutes.
Secondary: Calves.
What it is called elsewhere
- Norwegian Hoppknebøy
- Swedish Knäböj med hopp
- Danish Jump squat
- German Sprungkniebeuge
- Spanish Sentadilla con salto
- Italian Squat con salto
- Portuguese Agachamento com salto
- Russian Приседания с выпрыгиванием
- French Squat sauté
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