{"id":264936,"date":"2017-09-11T13:09:08","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T20:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=264936"},"modified":"2017-09-11T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T20:09:08","slug":"cor-exercise-of-the-week-single-leg-squat-assessment-and-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/cor-exercise-of-the-week-single-leg-squat-assessment-and-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"COR Exercise of the Week: Single Leg Squat Assessment and Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Dr. G. John Mullen, DPT, CSCS – President COR – Sports Training and Physical Therapy<\/i><\/p>\n

One of the most common questions I receive regards dryland training with little or no equipment. Many coaches face the challenge of finding hard exercises without equipment and with limited space. Luckily, the single leg squat is a great assessment tool and exercise which we use our teams with or without equipment. This challenge is difficult for even elite swimmers.<\/p>\n

As an assessment, the single leg squat assesses strength, control, and mobility. In swimming, all the mobility requirements in the squat aren’t essential to all swimmers. For example, the squat requires a lot of ankle dorsiflexion, a movement which isn’t essential for non-breaststroke swimmers. Nonetheless, it does help and assesses the following:<\/p>\n