Back Squat

1. Place the bar at shoulder height. 2. Step under the bar and make sure that it rests firmly on your shoulders beneath the last bone of your neck. 3. Stand up into the bar and take 1-3 steps back away from the rack. 4. Descend hips first in a controlled manner as though you were sitting in a chair, stopping at or below parallel as your available range of motion allows. 5. Stand back up to just short of the starting position during the set

Stopping before you reach the top of the motion helps to keep constant tension on the working muscles thereby maximizing metabolic poential