Strength training - squats

One thing I definitely learned running my first ultra is that cardio-vascular endurance alone is not enough: I need to get stronger in my legs and core. So I've started learning about how to do that.

The first exercise I've looked as the simple (or so I thought!) squat.

I follow The McCaw method on Facebook. They're always going on about the importance of single leg exercises for building real world strength, as opposed to just 'gym machine' strength, so I thought I would start there.

I quickly came across the Pistol Squat. If you'd described it to me, I would have said it was a physical impossibility - and for the moment, for me, it is! But this video demonstrates a succession of exercises to help you build sufficient strength to do a Pistol Squat, but even some variations of it that seem even more impossible! I plan on giving this a go.