• Begin standing on single leg.

• Hips must stay level -- a good coaching point is to ask the client to hitch their shirts up so you can see both their hips and shoulders to make sure they stay in line throughout.

• Begin squatting by extending non-support leg in front of body to counter balance.

• Depth of squat is limited by what is able to be achieved while keeping alignment of hips and shoulders. If client can only manage to squat 4 inches then that is all they do. There is no point adding range until control is increased.

• Hip, knee and ankle of support leg must stay in line at all times. Knee travels directly in line with foot. Again, if alignment is not kept then stop movement at point where control is lost.

Single Leg Squat with Dumbell. Note potentially greater ROM due to counter balance of weight.

For more information on single leg training please refer to the article A Case for Single Limb Training here: http://www.ptreference.com/members/manage/content_entryaction.cfm