{"id":82408,"date":"2012-12-01T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=82408"},"modified":"2012-12-03T11:04:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T16:04:59","slug":"saturday-morning-drills-seven-squats-to-sexy-sculpted-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/saturday-morning-drills-seven-squats-to-sexy-sculpted-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Morning Drills: Seven Squats to Sexy Sculpted Legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re the least bit interested in health and fitness, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ve done a few squats in your life. But have you ever really thought about how beneficial they are for your body?<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, squats aid in adding muscle to your frame. <strong><a title=\"Light Weights Just as Good for Building Muscle\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/light-weights-just-as-good-for-building-muscle\/\">The more muscle you have, the more fat your body burns<\/a><\/strong>. For every pound of additional muscle you gain, your body burns another 50-70 calories per day. Squats also help maintain mobility and balance, boost your sports performance so you can do things like jump higher and run faster, and even help <strong><a title=\"Core Exercises to Increase Stamina and Prevent Injury This Winter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/3-core-exercises-to-increase-stamina-and-prevent-injury-this-winter\/\">prevent injuries<\/a><\/strong>. They&#8217;re also the exercise that works the most muscles at the same time, targeting your legs, entire core and of course, <strong><a title=\"Saturday Morning Drill: Beautiful Backside\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/saturday-morning-drill-beautiful-backside\/%20\">your backside<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This morning as you get up and around to do your weekend chores, take a few minutes to get a quick leg workout in. All you need is about 20 minutes to go through this entire squatting routine. Trust me, you won&#8217;t regret it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/saturday-morning-drills--seven-squats-to-sexy-sculpted-legs\/plie-squats\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-82426\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/squat-saturday-drill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/squat-saturday-drill.jpg 320w, https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/squat-saturday-drill-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Bikini Body Blast\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/saturday-morning-drill-bikini-body-blast\/\">Saturday Morning Drill: Bikini Body Blast<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Top 5 Quad Exercises\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/top-5-quad-exercises\/\">Top 5 Quad Exercises<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"The Perfect Squat\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/09\/the-perfect-squat\/\">The Perfect Squat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re the least bit interested in health and fitness, there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ve done a few squats in your life. But have you ever really thought about how beneficial they are for your body? First and foremost, squats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/12\/saturday-morning-drills-seven-squats-to-sexy-sculpted-legs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[8440,9610,3712,9395],"class_list":["post-82408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness","tag-homepage","tag-saturday-morning-drills","tag-squats","tag-workout-at-home"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82408"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82437,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82408\/revisions\/82437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}