Eccentryx / Exercise Atlas / legs
Cossack squat
Wide stance, shift into one hip, keep the other leg long and heel down.
Muscles
- Primary
- adductors
- Supporting
- quads, glutes
Mechanics
- Pattern
- squat
- Equipment
- bodyweight
- Geometry
- 90° Alignment
- Energy model
- Glycolytic Pathway (10-90s)
- Target feel
- Adductor and quad load together while the chest stays tall.
- Progression
- Add depth before adding a dumbbell counterweight.
- Regression
- Hold a rack upright and keep the range shallow.
Watch for
- Heel lifting early
- Collapsing the working knee inward
Substitutions
- Lateral lunge
- Goblet squat
- 90/90 hip rotation