How to Do the One-Arm Overhead Kettlebell Squats
💪 Quadriceps, Calves, Glutes, Hamstrings, Shoulders🏋️ Kettlebells📊 Expert🏷️ Strength
How to perform it
- 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.
- 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.
- Pause at the bottom position for a second before rising back to the top, driving through the heels of your feet.
Muscles worked
The One-Arm Overhead Kettlebell Squats primarily targets your Quadriceps, with support from your Calves, Glutes, Hamstrings, Shoulders. You'll need kettlebells.
Make it count toward your goal
Random sets rarely move the needle. In NYUS, the One-Arm Overhead Kettlebell Squats slots into a plan built for your goal — sets, reps and progression auto-suggested, logged in two taps, and folded into a weekly review that adapts what comes next.