Lean back, sit deep, let the straps deepen your squat.
Sit into your heels and let the straps support balance, not pull you up. Keep your chest proud.
Holding the handles while you sit back lets you squat deeper and more upright than most people can manage unassisted, and that extra depth means the quads work through a bigger range on every rep. The glutes drive the hips out of the bottom while the light backward lean keeps your weight in your heels where it belongs. It earns its place as the tool that teaches squatting properly, grooving depth, balance and an upright chest before any load ever enters the conversation.
Anyone learning to squat, returning from time off, or wanting to fix a shallow forward-leaning squat. The straps unlock depth and upright posture immediately, then you fade the assistance as the pattern sticks.
As a strength stimulus, probably. But they still earn a slot as a warm-up and depth drill, letting you sit into your deepest position and open up before loading.
Keep your arms long and think of the handles as balance rails, not ropes, matching the cue. If your elbows bend hard on the way up, your legs are outsourcing work they should own.
