The squat has become one of the most ambiguous exercises in the fitness industry. Before you olympic lifters get your panties in a bunch (you are the only people who ever complain) because Im not teaching you to go past 90 degrees or pointing my toes and knees out, just think about how often you would find yourself needing that range of motion, in comparison to the range of motion I cover in this video. For anyone else watching this post, next time you are going to move in the frontal plane, rotate or run from the squat position, point your toes out and see how potent your movement then becomes. There is a reason you never see Olympic Lifting Isolationists demonstrating their strength outside the sagittal plane of motion. EVERYTIME YOU DO SEE IT, THINGS LIKE TIBIAL TORSION, FROZEN TRUNK, KYPHOSIS (LUMBAR AND TSPINE), HYPERTEXTENSION EVERYWHERE (AS A PRIORITY) ARE PRESENT IN THEIR MECHANICS. When you associate stress to the sagittal plane you make an exchange for your multiplane functions, therefore you will look like a klutz trying to rotate or anything else outside the comfort of that one pointless position. At Functional Patterns, we understand that we live in a world with 3 dimensions and this is why we train in this fashion. If you want to train yourself to move well and in a manner you would use MOST OF THE TIME, do a squat like this. You dont sacrifice 3 dimensional use and structural integrity in other avenues of reality doing it this way, you preserve it. Its your choice. Just thought I would put these words in to address the testosterone rich, yet oxytocinless group of males who typically get vocal about their disliking for a squat that trains you for multiple realities. JUST KNOW GUYS, I HAVE HEARD THE COMPLAINTS. THEY ARE GETTING OLD. THEY ARE EXCUSES AND NO ONE WHO HAS QUESTIONED THEIR MANHOOD/WOMANHOOD REALLY CARES ABOUT HOW HEAVY YOUR SQUAT IS ANYMORE. :)
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:19:10 +0000
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