10 reasons squats are a terrible excercise

I didn't actually view the link but I will share something that I found very beneficial from my physical therapist. She told me this: "If you could only do one exercise for the rest of your life, it should be SQUATS... hands down! You should do a minimum of 10 a day." She said "if everybody did squats everyday their wouldn't be so many old people that need to be placed in assisted living and nursing homes because they can't get out of a chair or bed! Everyone would have healthy ankles, knees, hips, backs and butts. Your major muscle groups get a full on workout. Just be sure to drive from your heels on every single squat!" Incorporate weights and you have virtually every muscle group involved in the squat now!

Good luck!

So a friend of a friend of a guy who worked with a cousin of a guy knows a Navy Seal who said squats are stupid. Well, it must be true then.

So a friend of a friend of a guy who worked with a cousin of a guy knows a Navy Seal who said squats are stupid. Well, it must be true then.

This point is axiomatic.

**leaves work to head right for the squat rack**

Wow. Just wow. Just shows you how much bad information there is online...

I didn't actually view the link but I will share something that I found very beneficial from my physical therapist. She told me this: "If you could only do one exercise for the rest of your life, it should be SQUATS... hands down! You should do a minimum of 10 a day." She said "if everybody did squats everyday their wouldn't be so many old people that need to be placed in assisted living and nursing homes because they can't get out of a chair or bed! Everyone would have healthy ankles, knees, hips, backs and butts. Your major muscle groups get a full on workout. Just be sure to drive from your heels on every single squat!" Incorporate weights and you have virtually every muscle group involved in the squat now!

Good luck!

And if you did view the link.........

The same obvi!

i actually did go to school with a navy seal. we were on the swim team together.

Bless your cotton socks.

So, now we've established that the article was a parody of the nonsense usually spoken about squatting the question is why are they so rampant.

If you've ever travelled around the Indian subcontinent or Asia you will notice that most kids and adults can maintain a squat position with relative ease - that is because it is a normal movement:




If you've ever seen young kids play they quite naturally adopt it.

Why then do we, as Western adults seemingly have so much difficulty thinking it's a great, fundamental movement?

i hear they give you thunder thighs

you hope.

So, now we've established that the article was a parody of the nonsense usually spoken about squatting the question is why are they so rampant.

If you've ever travelled around the Indian subcontinent or Asia you will notice that most kids and adults can maintain a squat position with relative ease - that is because it is a normal movement:




If you've ever seen young kids play they quite naturally adopt it.

Why then do we, as Western adults seemingly have so much difficulty thinking it's a great, fundamental movement?

Great photo for this! It's simple: chairs. Sitting in chairs causes this problem. Like you said, spend time in Asia and you will see that everyone there can do this. I've seen guys in their 70s sitting there drinking a beer in perfect squat position.