Legs · Bodyweight
Air Pillow Balance Counterbalanced Skater Squat
How to do the air pillow balance counterbalanced skater squat, the muscles it works, and the mistakes to avoid. Pulled straight from the Kovo app's exercise library.
- Equipment
- Bodyweight
- Difficulty
- Advanced
- Logged as
- Weighted reps
- Movement
- Squat
- Mechanic
- Compound
How to do it
Stand on an inflated air pillow on one leg with the other leg held behind you, arms reaching forward as a counterbalance. Lower into a single-leg squat by bending the standing knee and pushing the hips back, then drive up to standing while the unstable cushion challenges your balance.
- 1Quad and glute of the standing leg driving you up
- 2Foot and ankle working to steady the cushion
- 3Arms reaching forward to counterbalance the descent
Common mistakes
- Letting the standing knee cave inward
- Dropping too fast and losing the cushion underfoot
- Rounding the back as you reach forward
Muscles worked
The air pillow balance counterbalanced skater squat mainly works the quads and glutes, with the lower abs, hamstrings, calves, lower back, upper abs, obliques, adductors, hip flexors, and tibialis anterior assisting.
- QuadsPrimary
- GlutesPrimary
- Lower AbsSupport
- HamstringsSupport
- CalvesSupport
- Lower BackSupport
- Upper AbsSupport
- ObliquesSupport
- AdductorsSupport
- Hip FlexorsSupport
- Tibialis AnteriorSupport
- Front DeltsMinor
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Last reviewed June 2026.