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This is the squat this is a very common exercise, and one that a lot of people have problems
with even though they are already doing it. So from the front, some of the common things
we are looking for: as you come down into the squat we want to make sure your knees
don't drift in, as you bend down, a lot of times we will see people knees kind of collapse,
and they will kind of come into the middle, one side or both sides, and we don't want
to happen. As you come back up again, sometimes, instead of dropping that knee in as people
come down they tend to shift their hips to one side, just to compensate and again that
just puts a lot of undue stress on your joints. What we want to see is nice straight, stable
hips coming down in the same plane, and knees not collapsing, staying right over top of
your feet, that's a pretty good angle right there. From the side, the most common thing
that we see, people aren't able to hold their back in neutral, as they come down we get
some rounding in here. What we want to see is a nice neutral back through here, and what
we will see, is they tend kind to roll and ?? in here and that puts a ton of stress on
your low back The other thing that we will see if they are not able to hold that neutral
position is as they come down they will tend to bend forward with their torso, just because
they can't actually use their hips to come down in a squat, and again that puts a lot
of pressure on their back From the side, what we are looking for, start back with the hips,
keep a nice neutral spine and we want all that motion to come from your hips, he was
pretty good there until the end and then we see a little bit of tip there and we want
that to stay nice and upright that way we will develop our power from our hips and save
our back and knees.