Just Squat: Glassman Archives

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We've we've what we've got here is a

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beautiful squat.

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Most clients coming into the gym,

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certainly in the beginning, don't look

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like this, right?

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>> Yeah.

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>> And there are a lot of reasons why.

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Can we just cover some of like the basic

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like normal? You're 40 years old. You

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have not been well trained in human

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movement. You got life kind of

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happening.

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>> You know, I mean, there's going to be

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range of motion, flexibility, strength,

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balance. Uh, there's a there's a bunch

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of stuff. Regardless of what the problem

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is, the answer is to squat. And I don't

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want to develop a a culture of meta-

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squatters and meta-quat trainers trying

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to figure out what they can do to make

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their clients better so that they can

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then teach them to squat,

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>> right?

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>> Just squat.

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>> Well, let's go. Let's let let's let me

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shift that and say uh you have someone

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whose squat doesn't look like this,

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right? And that's going to be the

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majority of your new

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>> right now. uh you could spend 10 years

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on someone and really make very slow

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progress.

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>> Yeah. I'm going to make the point that I

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don't know if coming to realize that

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it's probably poor intervation of the of

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the glute

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and or tight hamstrings.

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Um [clears throat]

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that that's going to be your two issues,

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you know, big ones. I don't know if

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knowing which of those is the dominant

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uh piece gives me the really that big a

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clue

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>> to fixing it.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Right. Because to fix it is to squat

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>> cuz I'm going to find out I'm going to

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find out maybe posturally in the setup

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here and some other exercises about the

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hamstring shortness. I certainly will

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when we get on the glute ham developer.

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But in in net I don't know if there's a

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significant change in how I'm going to

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approach this thing.

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>> Okay. you know, I'm going to I want him

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in that posture.

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>> Okay.

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>> And if we have to find a a post and he

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grabs it and I got a knee in his back

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and I'm forcing him in there and looking

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to see if it could be balanced or not.

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If I'm like, why can't I get you down

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there? Are you just are you fighting me

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or is it the limit of a range of motion?

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I'm going to have him, you know, give me

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hip flexion. And if real suddenly I get

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a I get a a round lower back, then I ran

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out of hamstring. Well, that's part of

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the problem, you know, and I might

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assign some other hamstring duty. But

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suppose I didn't really find that. I'm

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I Okay, it's just neurological. I want

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you down there in the squat anyways. Um

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the extra hamstring work, what's it

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worth? Well, you know, if I if I didn't

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catch it in the squat, I would have

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found it somewhere else and we and we'd

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work it,

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>> right?

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>> Regardless of what the problem is, the

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answer is to squat. [music]

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The video discusses the common challenge of clients lacking a "beautiful squat" due to age, insufficient training, and issues like poor glute innervation or tight hamstrings. The speaker strongly advocates that the ultimate solution, regardless of the specific underlying problem, is to consistently squat. While identifying specific limitations like hamstring tightness can inform supplementary exercises, the core focus remains on getting clients into the correct squat posture, even with direct coaching intervention, rather than over-analyzing physiological deficits.