In Praise of Pistol One Legged Squats

Either without weights, or with weights:

Benefits:

Improved hip strength and back strength
Of course, leg strength
Easy to do at home, with or without weights. You can do it with a kettlebell, dumbbell, or even barbell.

Barbell Pistol Leg Squat Home ERIC KIM WORKOUT

Warmup and progression ideas

I like pigeon pose (yoga style), and also warming up with bodyweight pistols.

If you cannot do a one-legged body weight pistol, I say just keep practicing double legged bodyweight squats, then progress with dumbbell/kettlebell/barbell (double legged squats), then progress to the bodyweight pistol.

Weighted pistol

My Home Dumbbell Workout (Turkish Getup, Pistol Squats)

Then just keep practicing. Start with the lightest kettlebell or dumbbell, and work your way up in weights. If you fail, no biggie. Eat more meat, rest up, and try again tomorrow in two days or so.

My Muscle Philosophy:

Treat your body as sculpture.

This is not my body

The first thing:

I don’t see my body as belonging to me. I look at my body like it belongs to someone else.

When I look at the Lamborghini of someone else, I admire it. When I see the muscles and physiques of anyone else, I admire it. Then I had the epiphany:

Why not transform my own body into a Lambo, and admire my own body instead?

The logic

The great logic:

It is far cheaper to get buff than to buy a Lambo.
The human body is the apex beauty. This means your personal goal in life should be to beautify your own personal body to the maximum (without plastic surgery, steroids, etc).
Ultimate democratic approach: Genetics doesn’t matter. Sex doesn’t matter. Racial ethnicity doesn’t matter. Anyone can both add muscle mass and subtract fat.
It doesn’t cost much to get ripped. Just intermittent fast [no breakfast, no lunch], one big ass meal a day, and mostly a ‘ketogenic’ diet.
Your body is always with you. Why not beautify your body to inspire yourself?