Start with a 20-to-40-pound weight just outside your right foot. Keeping your back straight, squat down and pick up the weight with your hands. Come up and raise the weight above your head, then squat back down, placing the weight outside your left foot. Repeat in the opposite direction. Ten reps.
(Photo: Michael Hanson)
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