This Pistol Squat Variation Will Fire Your Glutes!

The sideways pistol squat challenges single-leg strength, balance, hip stability, mobility, and core control all at once. 💪

Why we love it:

🔥 Builds unilateral strength — training one side at a time can help identify and improve strength imbalances.

🔥 Challenges your glutes + quads + core + abductors— your standing leg is doing the heavy lifting!

* Quads → do a lot of the work controlling the descent and driving you back up.

* Glute max → helps extend the hip as you stand.

* Glute med/min → work especially hard to stabilize your hip and pelvis because it’s a single-leg movement.

* Core + adductors → help with balance and control.

🔥 Trains mobility AND strength — getting low requires mobility through the hips, knees, and ankles while maintaining control.

🔥 Lights up your core — your core has to stabilize your trunk as your center of gravity shifts.

🔥 It’s functional — single-leg strength and stability carry over to everyday movement, running, jumping, and changing direction in sports.

Start with a range of motion you can control, keep your standing knee tracking with your toes, and gradually work toward more depth as your strength and mobility improve.

✨ Control > depth. Quality > quantity.

Try it in this weeks TOTW “Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down” find a class in person or online at www.surge-fit.com/find-a-class💪

Feel the Surge!