Izzo is right, I have seen it performed with the legs almost in a line, instead of one to the left and one to the right of your center line. After doing body weight, try doing them with your hands clasped behind your head, sometimes called "prisoner style". This raises your center of gravity and adds another level of challenge. This balance issue is one of the major reasons I really enjoy and appreciate the total body workouts and compound movements. You can fool yourself into thinking you are getting strong with a knee extension machine or a leg press machine, but when you put it to practical use with a BSS you see that some supporting muscles are just not developed as much as the single isolated muscle is. If it is any consolation, it took me a good 6 weeks before I started using any sort of significant dumbell weight on that exercise. The strength was there but the balance from supporting muscles was not. Just wait til the overhead presses during the BSS start!
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