Sumo Squat Floor Touch
Description
The sumo squat floor touch performs a wide-stance (sumo) squat and reaches down to touch the floor between your feet at the bottom. The floor touch ensures consistent depth and adds a reaching component for hip mobility.
Muscle Group
Equipment Required
Sumo Squat Floor Touch Instructions
- Stand with feet wide, toes turned out 30 to 45 degrees.
- Squat down by pushing your knees out and sitting your hips down.
- At the bottom, reach down and touch the floor between your feet.
- Drive through your feet to stand.
- The floor touch ensures full depth every rep.
- Keep your chest tall and back flat.
- Aim for 12 to 15 reps.
- Useful as a warm-up or mobility drill.
Sumo Squat Floor Touch Form & Visual
Sumo Squat Floor Touch Benefits
- Ensures consistent squat depth via floor touch
- Builds hip mobility and adductor flexibility
- No equipment needed
- Useful warm-up exercise
- Develops wide-stance squat depth
- Simple and accessible
Sumo Squat Floor Touch Muscles Worked
- Quadriceps
- Adductors
- Gluteus maximus
- Hamstrings
- Core (stabilizer)
Sumo Squat Floor Touch Variations & Alternatives
- Sumo Air Squat
- Dumbbell Sumo Squat
- Side Lunge
- Cossack Squat
- Sumo Squat Pulse
