One-Arm Overhead Kettlebell Squats

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One-Arm Overhead Kettlebell Squats — start position
Start
One-Arm Overhead Kettlebell Squats — finish position
Finish
Muscles worked
PrimaryQuads
SecondaryCalves, Glutes, Hamstrings, Shoulders

How to do it

  1. 01

    Clean and press a kettlebell with one arm. Clean the kettlebell to your shoulder by extending through the legs and hips as you pull the kettlebell towards your shoulder. Rotate your wrist as you do so. Press the weight overhead by extending through the elbow.This will be your starting position.

  2. 02

    Looking straight ahead and keeping a kettlebell locked out above you, flex the knees and hips and lower your torso between your legs, keeping your head and chest up.

  3. 03

    Pause at the bottom position for a second before rising back to the top, driving through the heels of your feet.

In the app

One-Arm Overhead Kettlebell Squats appears when you own a kettlebell and the day's window has room for it. Loads come from Rule 3 (Loads rise when earned, read from RPE, graded strong) and climb on the reps you actually did.

If a machine is taken the engine swaps a same-pattern movement and says why.

If you don't have a kettlebell

Same movement pattern, same primary muscles — swap by what you have.

With barbell
With bodyweight
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With kettlebell
With machine

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