Bodyweight Cossacks and One Leg Squats

[Kiacek]

I have been doing one leg squats 5 days a week.
I'm finding Cossacks to be one of the most restorative motions. They also are an amazing diagnostic for how ready I am to do my days one leg squats, if I'm not fully rooted through my entire foot during a Cossack then I know my hip, knee, and/or ankle alignment is going to be off and I'm going to compensate during my one leg squats.
There are other awesome moves that I didn't fully appreciate until I started doing a lot of one leg squats, but I've found the Cossacks to be very special.

Has this been anyone else's experience with Cossacks and single leg work?

 

[Steve Freides]

I'm not currently doing pistols, but cossack's and windmills, both bw only, are go-to movements for me. Diagnostic, restorative. I move around a lot - "pry" - while doing my cossacks.

-S-

 

[Kozushi]

I know Ukrainian dancers who do them for hours in shows.

 

[Kiacek]

...but cossack's and windmills, both bw only, are go-to movements for me. Diagnostic, restorative...
-S-

Thanks for the recommend on the windmills, I added them back into my morning warm up.

 

[Kiacek]

These three Farmer Burns exercises are also really helpful for the one leg squats, they seem to loosen up my hip capsule and get get the stabilizers firing properly.

I thought they were weird at first, but then I experienced the benefits and I love them (They are supposed to be done with (2) 3-5lb weights to failure).

 

[Steve Freides]

@Pavel Macek - how about those pictures?

-S-