What is perfect squatting?
Knees Past Your Toes While Squatting⁉️
Right or Wrong⁉️
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To really reap the benefits of squatting one needs to go deep, below thighs go parallel to the ground. This is when squats begin to engage more and more muscles. The problem arises when our friendly neighborhood "trainer" says -" your knees should never go past your toes".
Many of us then realize that while going deep our knees are going out of sync. The trainer then suggests, " you need to develop MOBILITY, to be able to do deep squats" and we are stuck because that mobility never comes to us.
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What these 'trainers' don't realize is that all bodies are different and are not made of exact same anatomy. This recommendation of knees not going ahead of toes is valid for someone with short legs. For them, knees getting past toes means that their feet are not constantly touching the ground and heels are lifting. This places them in an unstable situation where if they are loaded heavy they may hurt themselves.
But for a person who has long legs knees will move ahead of the toes even when the heels are planted well on the ground. Assuming that the core is kept tight, this is still a very stable situation. Thus a person is being unnecessarily forced to not use the full ROM just because their structure is different.
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To sum it all up for the MOST benefit of squats you need to go deep.
Disregard the recommendation " your knees should not go ahead of toes while squatting", just make sure your heels are planted well on the ground and your core is tight with a neutral spine.
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