06 Feb Bodyweight Squat: The HARDEST and MOST IMPORTANT Squat to Master
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in Exercise
The bodyweight squat is the HARDEST squat to learn.
True story.
Learning how to squat your own bodyweight is harder than learning how to squat 500 lbs.
Again, true story.
Here’s why:
While squatting extra weight requires extra strength, it also makes it easier to balance.
See, learning to stay balanced as you sit your butt back behind you is one of the HARDEST movements to learn.
Or rather, to re-learn.
Remember, the squat is the most natural and fundamental human movement pattern.
You used to squat every day — many, many times per day — when you were a kid.
Then, you turned 5 years old, were sent to school, and spent the rest of your life sitting in chairs.
This unnatural position limited your functional range of motion.
The chair epidemic stopped you from ever sitting your butt lower than chair-height, and robbed your body of it’s own natural ability to squat.
So, my friend, believe you me.
I invoke no hyperbole when I tell you that the bodyweight squat is both the HARDEST and the MOST important squat for you to learn.
Allow me to teach you.
-Coach Dani
True story.
Learning how to squat your own bodyweight is harder than learning how to squat 500 lbs.
Again, true story.
Here’s why:
While squatting extra weight requires extra strength, it also makes it easier to balance.
See, learning to stay balanced as you sit your butt back behind you is one of the HARDEST movements to learn.
Or rather, to re-learn.
Remember, the squat is the most natural and fundamental human movement pattern.
You used to squat every day — many, many times per day — when you were a kid.
Then, you turned 5 years old, were sent to school, and spent the rest of your life sitting in chairs.
This unnatural position limited your functional range of motion.
The chair epidemic stopped you from ever sitting your butt lower than chair-height, and robbed your body of it’s own natural ability to squat.
So, my friend, believe you me.
I invoke no hyperbole when I tell you that the bodyweight squat is both the HARDEST and the MOST important squat for you to learn.
Allow me to teach you.
-Coach Dani
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