Tired of squats? Try these instead.

You might think that squats are the only way to grow your lower body muscles, but there are many other amazing exercises that can promote muscle growth just as well as squats.

If you want to target multiple muscles and joints at the same time (like you do in squats), it’s a good idea to go for compound exercises. One of the best compound alternatives to squats is deadlifts. This movement targets the whole lower body as well as parts of your upper body.

The main muscle groups that are targeted with deadlifts are the quads, hamstrings, glutes, lower back, upper back, and biceps. You can perform them in a conventional style to target the quads, take a wider sumo stance to hit the glutes or do Romanian deadlifts to also target the hamstrings effectively.