The Squat. Well, do you want to learn how to do a proper squat? Well known Mark Rippetoe on the Squat: There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning as the correctly performed full squat. I'll tell ...