I have severe hyper-hydrosis. My hands sweat so much so quickly, i have to wrap my hands or wear gloves to maintain ANY grip. Only my trx straps absorb the ridiculous amount of water that comes off my hands naturally. I have dealt with this my entire life and wish it on no one. Love to all, and thank you for the content Dr. Mike!
My hands are super sweaty as well; It will be like I’ve ran them under the tap! I also have eczema and sensitive skin. The grippies on the barbells do nothing for my sensitive skin- but make it bleed.
I used to have the same problem. Ask your doctor about oxybutynin. It's been life-changing for me. It was originally designed to help people control their bladders but it can also be prescribed to help people who sweat extremely abnormal amounts like me.
I only wear thin glove liners after using the punching bag for a bit. As I punch the bag hard and often I eventually start to bleed, so I put on gloves to stop that happening
Mike, just for clarification, the term 'prop' in Hollywood has 2 meanings. The first being what most people are used to, a prop being a copy of a real item. The second meaning though is prop is short for property. A majority of firearms you see in movies are real, functional firearms. Can't shoot blanks and get the lovely muzzle flash out of a plastic toy. Just look at the Rust shooting. That was a prop gun. But it was still a fully functional firearm. Issue there was blanks and real ammo had gotten intermingled. Well, and Alec was allegedly playing very fast and loose witrh gun safety, supposedly using the guns as pointing devices and such. Very unsafe all around.
This guy is hilarious and makes you realize one doesn’t need to do any crazy workouts for gains just stick to the tried and true. I have no clue wtf I’m even watching in this video😂
Marky Mark has that stupidly busy schedule. If you haven't seen it, look it up. Why would he waste his time on 90 percent warm up with that schedule? This has to be bull shit from this guy, right?
Fr dude. I do 15-20 rep sets for total 20 sets of 20lb dumbell pair exercises 5 times a week, and it only takes around 30-35 mins, yet I feel like a dead dog at the end. I seriously wouldn't want to see what 4 hour workout everyday looks like.
I work out for 30 minutes a day 4x a week. That's it. And I've managed to sack on about 30lbs of (mostly) lean mass in about 1.5 to 2 years. Most people don't have time for hrs a day for exercise. Especially people like me who work full time and have 2 young kids. I make it work for me and I give it a good solid 30 min of busting ass, then I go on with my day. It doesn't have to be complicated.
Make as many jokes as you like, Dr. Mike. This guy's iconic jumping jacks/one arm barbell overhead press combo move changed my life forever. I'm looking swole af in my wheelchair.
People won't admit the truth about PEDs. Its not that they super charge your workouts - they raise your baseline muscularity. This is why things like the traps and such grow - muscles that you might not even work normally. They did a study where people literally doing nothing gained more muscle then people working out - provided they were on roids. Of course if you lift and do steroids there is an additive effect. You get the gains you would have made lifting and the gains that you get from starting in a much better place.
I mean even doing bullshit workouts for 20 years will get you somewhere. Not where you would be if you weren't doing bullshit, but you'd still be better physical shape than the average person who doesn't really workout at all.
yup... the only way to save this workout from just being a joke is the addition of peptides... that is the only way this workout in any way can be called hypertrophic
As a trainer he's actually doing his job perfectly, he's giving Mark EXACTLY what he wants, a bunch a whoo whoo stuff that will make him feel like an athlete and make him exhausted so he thinks he worked really hard, while not actually pushing him and fatiguing him with real bodybuilding training. He is absolutely a personal trainer and he's training marks ego.
Thats probably the right answer. Hollywood is know for big egos and they dont train like the filfthy peasants lmao Also juice so even dumb training will get some results.
Lmao literally why i stopped training people, its all marketing and making people tired for the sake of making them feel like they did something. I cringe everytime i see a trainer use battle ropes or the sled on a client at the gym for absolutely zero reason.
I'm surprised he didn't include the Figure-8 Barbell Box Jump Backflip Yoga Ball Shoulder Press. That's my favorite exercise. It produces such an intense growth stimulus on my spleen!
As someone who met Dr. Mike in person at the NSCA national conference a couple years back I can tell you none of this is a performance.. he actually talks like this and I absolutely love it
Well I usually imagine them reacting like: Oh it's really good I can really feel it, makes me tired, I sweat a lot, I loose weight, makes me feel stronger, blah blah blah!
Mark Walberg (or any actor) when shooting combat scenes use real firearms or actual assault rifles that have a blank adapter or restrictor threaded into the barrel; this allows the rifle to shoot blanks at automatic fire rate. An M16 and an M4 carbine both weigh about 7lbs so actors use a realistically weighted weapon
Gordon Ramsay is fake as hell. He even gets his lines fed to him via earpiece and doesn't cook in his own restaurants (but yet charges as much as if he would)
@@Bale4Bond Lol what ? Dude has like 15 restaurants all over the world of course he doesn't cook himself. Every single chef worth a dime does that. They open many restaurants and hire executive chefs to run them. That's just being a CEO. This is just how it works in fine dining.
@@Fr0gSplashh Once Marco Pierre White (three Michelin stars and Ramsay's teacher) realized that he couldn't uphold the standard of his restaurants, due to not being able to cook in them simultaneously, he showed integrity by taking his name of those restaurants and handing back his stars and pretty much retiring from that point forward. It is sadly common for most celebrity chefs to plaster their names onto restaurant, but that just shows a lack of class and respect for the craft.
@@Bale4Bond At the end of the day it's just business. They're just building a bigger cash cow for their companies. That's how the world works. If the executive chef is good enough to have stars, he'll get stars. If he's good enough to keep them, he'll keep them. Eugénie Brazier was the first person to ever get 3 stars. Guess what ? She actually had 6 stars, because already back then, 70 years from now, she had multiple restaurants. Robuchon and Bocuse did it. Ducasse still has 17 stars to his name. They're legendary french chefs. Would you dare say the very guys who created the legend don't respect the craft ? Even Troisgros, the longest tenured 3 star restaurant ever (has been 3 star for 55 years straight), is now a brand with multiple restaurants. It makes no sense to talk about disrespect honestly.
@@Bale4Bond fagetaboutdit. 9 guys are all about "whatever makes the BIG BUCKS DUDE f##k integrity " so i guess common opinion is that you're wrong. (I am of the 2 upvotes)
Honestly man I went from eating 10 Mcchickens on a bulk (when they were $1) to understanding nutrition and how “just one more PR bro” probably did more harm than good lol
As a competitive athlete, I really genuinely enjoy watching you pick all this bs apart. None of these movements are sport specific and none of them really build muscle. These are all really over complicated exercises that get you to sweat and look good on instagram with the idea of tricking the masses into thinking they just aren’t doing the latest trendy thing, and that’s why they aren’t getting results. Just stick to the basics, the tried and true, you get plenty of mileage from them.
@@Spectificationno, stop. I get you're a newbie at the gym, but Unless you're doing sport specific training like drills on those small ladders for directional agility, stick to your basics: majority compounds movements, some isolations, different planes of motion trained (i.e. a vertical pull and a horizontal pull) and a cardio modality you enjoy. No near crawls, and no bosu ball overhead squats.
@@Spectification If you are one of those people who wears latex dog masks and goes to fetish conventions, then sure bear crawls have its place. No judgement.
My mental image of Mark Walberg doing a bear crawl in a figure eight pattern had me in tears - and that was before I imagined Dr. Mike in black latex chaps whipping him while he does it.
5:25 this is interesting, because when i'm running or sparring i find that actively focusing on my breathing (and controlling it manually instead of letting my body do whatever, especially when running) helps my cardio immensely. it's not even a tiny difference, when I focus on my breathing in sparring i'm able to go almost twice as many rounds before fatigue sets in. so i'm guessing you mean breathing techniques like breathing in on the way down in a bench press and breathing out when going up? I'm a bit confused here. thanks a lot if anyone could clarify
i seriously enjoyed this video, it actually shocks me that Mark being the perfectionist that he is , has this guy of all training him for years. Id like to see him after 16 weeks with you .
It's all bs to hide his steroid use imo. I don't think Mark trains like that. That's like how trainers train their female client for the first few days at my gym.
@@yusufayaz2356 Mark does none of this trust me, you notice how in these "train like x" vidoes they never actually shows the real person doing this bullshit.
14:01 Mark is actually doing the “bilateral lower body pull”. I really think Mark is eating it up. Mark has good genetics on top of exogenous support I’m sure.
@@yusufayaz2356 , trust me, he does do this kinda shit training. He can't even do a single pull-up. He merely looks the part, but he's seriously lacking in strength.
I was in a program for kinesiology where you could get NASM certified alongside the coursework and one of the things they pushed was upper cross syndrome and corrective exercise. They showed pictures of gamers and people with “neck problems and postural deficiencies” that needed to be corrected by targeted stretching and strengthening. One of the things they mentioned were these peoples’ inability to stand up straight. I called bullshit in class and, admittedly anecdotally, referenced my time in the military as an example why it was nonsense. I’ve seen so many people of all ages who would qualify under NASM’s criteria for upper crossed syndrome jump to absolute attention when a Colonel walks in the room. Postural issues immediately disappear. Anyway, I stopped chasing that degree path.
I think these things are generally about teaching awareness not necessarily capability. Like, for sure, if you did a bunch of stuff with your neck and thought, "Hey, I'm going to stand up straight from now on," you definitely stand-up straight. Of course, they just leave out that you could simply decide to do that at any point in time and that would be far more efficient. 😂
As a new PT, I came to the comments to read what people were saying about this because I found it pretty puzzling. He mischaracterizes the entire concept pretty blatantly. How it was taught to me, and how I treat my patients who do in fact stand in an upper crossed posture... it's not that they CAN'T move out of that posture it's that they DON'T. The exercises are there to get them to break those patterns, and to adjust passive tension in the muscles. So it's not's that your pecs are "on" it's that they've got greater passive tension from staying in a shorter position relative to the lengthened postural muscles. Could you fix your posture by just having better posture? Yeah! and I try to teach them to do that too. But acting like upper crossed syndrome isn't a real thing is just... very confusing because I see it literally every day in my patients. Maybe the difference is he's talking about athletes and healthy people and I'm seeing pathological cases I suppose. I dunno. But even in my short time as a PT I've seen tons of cases of upper crossed posture.
Thank you Mike for exposing the absolute BS that some of these ‘celebrity trainers’ prescribe. I’m gonna go and warm up for my pre exercise 5 min treadmill walk. ✌🏼
I know from a physical standpoint, in nose and out mouth is worthless. But, and only for me(not advocating anything) it's always helped me focus. While useless physically, the act of forcing your thoughts to the "front" has helped me tremendously in various situations. Whether it's de-escalation of something, being 40ft up w/o a harness (my job), adrenaline dumps(when in the Army / EMS), and so on. It sort of forces an individual to be wholly present, and that presence allows you to keep from spiraling or w/e else. Again - just for me. I use it all the time. I'd wager that as this point, some of it is just placebo for me.
As someone who only seriously started weight training about 1 year ago, Dr. Mike’s videos have been an absolutely amazing resource to help cut through the BS in the fitness world. Without an actually knowledgeable resource like Dr. Mike, fitness/dieting seems so confusing. I still have a lot to learn about weight training, but I’ve discovered that the basics are really not that complicated. Eat enough protein. Don’t eat too many or too few calories. Use good technique. Stick to exercises that can be progressively overloaded. Rest and recover so you can improve next session. Pretty logical stuff tbh. But casual gym goers see stuff like these Hollywood training videos, and you just assume that an actor who makes tens of millions of dollars for looking attractive on TV would use an effective training program. Apparently not. It’s just “chicken, broccoli, rice” and a whole lot of PEDs off screen.
I'm right there with you. I started 8 months ago. A lot of this exercise science bs is great critical thinking practice. If you're training your front delts why would you want to be limited by an uneven base? Makes complete sense when you think about it. So happy he puts this stuff out there.
Well. I am sure this is a great expert on hypertrophy. For staying healthy and functional, I would more look into other sources. Like yoga, functional fitness, pranayama, swimming, kettlebells, you know. That woowoo bullshit that, if you widen your view more than angry expert, trains your balance, makes you move well, lets you use your strength in good posture in unpracticed scenarios. That "endless warmup" is just a great session for overall fitness. And breathing techniques, as science more and more confirms the "new wave woowoo" and old teachings, are some of the strongest means to controll our mind (see huberman labs for some research podcasts). Hypertrophy is just one stone in the wall of your health and happiness. Have fun training!
@@NotaNazgul No one's bashing warming up. They're criticizing these ridiculous exercises and movement choices. The exercises he chose for a "warmup" were borderline humiliating/demeaning, they were so nonsensical. Also, if you're training an actor to be "fit" for a movie, you're training their physique. The studio doesn't care about their balance or posture or cardio. They want a jacked dude to show up super lean and starving for filming. That's bodybuilding/conditioning, which is what Dr. Mike is an expert in. None of this work is optimal for hypertrophy - hence the criticisms.
@@clamdigger1602I agree with the warm-up...a bit overkill and it shouldn't be demanding and taxing or ridiculous. Being an older guy with injuries and who only use kettlebells for fitness, I just move the joints to lube them. Things like shoulders rolls, prying squats, hip, wrist and ankle rotations ect. Usually about 5 mins from head to toes and I'm done. I like the concept of just doing a few reps of the exercise that you are doing too with light weight when i was doing barbell work. We have to be practical too and understand that we may be called upon to use all our strength without a warm up in a life situation. As an older guy also, the single DL is an important exercise. It would be funny if you are able to DL 300lbs but you can't put your pants on standing up! I dunno why they need a band on not uses a kettlebell/dumbell though. Can't understand either why they do barbell press when they have access to a bench and a whole gym. I don't have access and I wouldn't even use the kettlebell for a floor press. I prefer a standing press with bands. You get a super stretch and you have to engage the whole body to keep you stable. I think that was a very poor workout and it's hard to see how Mark got his body from that....he must be genetically gifted.
@@clamdigger1602 I partially agree. But your assumptions about the requirements for stars are totally wrong. Many of them are educated in dance, ballet and such. They move graciously, with little effort, only balance can do that. If they had the stiff back of 50 years old who only focuses on hypertrophy, they would look and move clumsy. Not attractive.
OMG, sometimes I just watch these to get me in a humorous mood before heading to work out!😂 thanks for the entertainment and the info to keep me on my path!
Dude I love that your videos are a mix of education and legitimate comedy skits. Few youtube channels could be their own tv show and yours is one of them!!
I am so glad these videos exist. You are doing a real service for those of us who don't want to waste our time. I know fuck all about this stuff and would probably easily be tricked into doing stuff like this. There is a ton of this weird stuff in my gym and part of the fun is people noticing the weight I move go up consistently while everyone else is jerking themselves off with bands and partial reps and making no progress. What is even more fun is the people at jiujitsu having the horrifying realization that I am not only better than them, but now I am getting stronger too.
I really enjoyed this video. I heard a lot of this in the military from coaches. Everything was about balance, posterior chain and posture. We did identical exercises to this and it never helped with my lifts.
Wait, trying to figure out what your guys workout in the military. You ain't talking buddy carry, log pt, runs, crocodile walks and all those fun stuff?
all we did was 10km runs and stuff in the gym where being skinny made you good at it instantly (i.e. pull-up hang for time) .... i was overweight at that time. only one superior of like a dozen i had recognized that running is just f-ing my knees and doing little else
There are really well educated, smart, hardworking, honest people who barely scrape by doing what they love. And then there are people who make millions doing that exact same job, with none of those things. Good.
I love this series so much! Can we also quantify Dr. Mike's annoyance by having him wear a heart rate monitor, and take his blood pressure before and after the critique?
This is my favourite vid ever, I laughed so much through this. Only found your channel a week or so ago... Loving it. You have helped me with some of my lifting. This is awesome
What’s really really sad is during my time in the Army we constantly were doing absolutely worthless exercises such as these led by just as big of 🤡. Made more progress in 8 months following Dr. Mike and other RU-vidrs than 5 years of military “training”
Can't believe the organization that pays you chump change to get blown up by an IED didn't give you a PHD workout program. What has this world come to?
I went into the Marines at 19, 142 lbs, unable to do 25 pushups. Came out of boot camp 3 months later 200 lbs and could push for 4 hrs. Once i got into my actual unit, everyone was super fit and muscular. We'd hit the gym for PT instead of the other useless crap other platoons were doing. Its what got me into fitness in the first place!
@@soulus25 curious what years did you serve? I was army 2017-2022. I was super skinny when I joined and got into decent shape during my time. However when comparing it to the progress made training myself in the gym it’s a complete joke. Take an average joe and have them train consistently in the gym for 5 years they will look way better and be way stronger than the average soldier doing PT.
Hey dr mike big fan, when you talk about upper cross syndrome, that is a theory that is taught in PT school. As a DPT im not faulting what you are saying but in clinic you do see people that improve neck pain and shoulder pain with postural exercises. It maybe because we see more sedentary clients or that we are rehabing pain back to low to moderate function as opposed exercise science and hypertrophy. At least ancedotally when i treat pec tightness and cervical and thoracic extension people do get better 70 percent of the time in easy cases. Do you have research opposing upper cross syndrome? Im more curious than anything?
I'd like to see him respond to this. I haven't studied PT or anything, but a theory that I have is that the symptomatic improvement that they experience isn't necessarily indicative of the syndrome being real, but that they're simply feeling better because they're becoming physically active.
Med student with big interest in sports medicine here. The problem with pain is the following: it's a bio-psycho-social phenomenon that generally cannot be pinpointed on one singular biological fact, like e.g. having pectoral tightness. Often times psychological reasons like depression or social reasons like stress or loneliness. Generally, that's the topic of a medical doctor, while a DPT like yourself would probably be more interested in the biological factors that you can treat the best. The thing about tightness and stiffness is that most patients develop such pain syndromes because they DON'T move. If you look up any RU-vid video on posture and they tell their views very different exercises to do, you will see people in the comments talk about how much this helped. Firstly, that comes down to selection bias, as the ones who didn't benefit from these exercises won't comment. Secondly, these people commenting are benefiting from the exercises, because they lead mostly a very sedentary lifestyle, which lead them to lose their flexibility, coordination and mostly strength and thus to the pain symptoms they feel. We often times forget how little today's society actually moves, as we live in our own little sports bubble, but the majority (above 50%) of the Western society is overweight while about 20% is obese in some countries!! So even the stinkiest exercises will help the people who did absolutely nothing before. Keep in mind, postural exercises are also just variants of hypertrophy exercises. Most I've seen during my time in a geriatric rehabilitation centre are variants of squats, deadlifts and mobility exercises just with no weights and also adaptations to the lower level of fitness.
@@DILFDylF You're actually very correct with your assumption! Imagine sitting all day at your desk. You will notice that even a walk improves the "stiffness" in your bod, because it is *movement*. And our bodies are made to move!
So grateful for Dr. Mike's comments regarding posture. This was all new information for me, but I never understood the old explanations since I have a much more developed back but still horrible posture. And it always seemed like chefs, etc. would have that syndrome that everyone attributes to texting - but the many chefs I know (worked in restaurants forever) were always looking down and always had great posture (and very healthy egos 😆).
I only came across your channel yesterday and Ive binge watched a tonne of your videos and holy crap you know your stuff unlike many other people on this platform thank you for your knowledge and cutting the BS you are the most informative creator here keep up the good work and yes my lack of commas and full stops is probably triggering to you Im sorry
I remember when Marky Marks "workout" vide came out. I literally couldn't get through the whole video. Thank you Dr. Mike for saying everything I literally could not get out of my brain. We Love You
Some of these exercises reminded me of co-ordination and balance exercises physios give people who've had strokes or the elderly. Not the same but similar x
Agreed. As a dpt myself. I would def give these types of exercises to a low level pt. Wether elderly or recovering from and injury. Marky mark Can do way more than this and shouldn’t be wasting his time on it.
This is great. You are a very entertaining way for me to learn how to do this stuff. As an electrician I also have a ton of people in my profession that love to over complicate things and just use cool looking tools instead of just using the right tool for the job.
I'm almost at the point where I'm going to worship this bro! I feel like I'm being saved realizing all the bulshit that's out there. I actually made an appointment for personal trainer. Thank you for your awesome insight. ❤ Doc!!
I've run the push/pull split as you described it here and I loved it, but almost no one makes content about how to construct those splits or even brings them up as a viable option. Would love to see a video where you train someone on a split like that, although I know it's probably not that common
Yeah I love a deadlift/hamstrings and shoulder day. The deadlift helps my shoulders feel more open and.stable, and I get to work again my back, quads and other pushing muscles a little bit.
Works great for me who can only do a maximum of 4 gym sessions every week. You hit the whole body twice and can get pretty good exercise variety as well. Fantastic.
push pull legs is the most common split, it used to be really popular around 2015 then all the fitness influencers started saying bullshit and people believed them because theyre jacked
Hey Mike. I'm wondering, you often talk about doing the exercise itself lightly as a warmup. I often found with squats that mobility was a bit of a limiting factor for me and that mobility warmups helped me keep good form. I'm wondering what's your perspective on mobility drills before a workout?
I've learned a lot about exercise and nutrition from RP and Jeff nipard and have designed my own exercise and deity plan from what I've learn but today I learned something new. That with my basic knowledge of these things I've designed a better workout program the mark Wahlbergs fitness expert ... As a side note, I've had bad posture since I was a kid, actively thinking of standing up straight till it becomes just how you stand is the only thing that ever worked no exercise ever made a difference. Thank you for acknowledging and saying it to the world Dr. Mike.
Sorry, but I - as a PT - must disagree! Posture is mostly determined by your habits (sports, hobbies, jobs, illnesses), especially from youth and young-age, and the posture of your parents! For examply, I can tell with enough certainty by your posture which sports you did! However for my job the past is interesting but not important! Need proof? Stand with your back against a wall, press your lower back against it and try to extend your arms against it too EFFORTLESS! I am 52 and I can tell you that not even 20% of people my age can do this! Cause? TIGHT PECS AND TRAPS (and other muscles)! So, I think that you are wrong in this one! ;)
Your comment regarding posture is actually GOLD. Probably 99% of ppl I know think that bad posture is a thing, and I believed it too 3 minutes ago (well, lets say I just never questioned it). You destroyed everything in 2 sentences. I love it
Trouble is 'Bad posture' is so, so, SO ingrained in most peoples mentality that trying to add any nuance to it immediately gets you labelled as a quack.
I mean bad posture IS a thing. Dr Mike isn't saying it's not. He's saying people believing they have bad posture because they work out pecs too much or whatever is bullshit.
@@opabiniaregalis6197 Lordosis, Kyphosis, the famous forward head or "nerd posture", etc. They're all real. Pelvic tilt -posterior or anterior, rounded spine, an inability to maintain your lombar spine or cervicals upright because of a lack of mobility (often caused by years of a sedentaty lifestyle) or muscle atrophy in the posterior chain. Here's your usual suspects for a why. Different causes and different solutions for different postural problems. But they're all real for sure.
@@opabiniaregalis6197 I'd define as posture that makes you continuously get shorter as you arch more and more OR posture that's causing pain anywhere. Other than those two measurable issues it doesn't matter what you look like
I'm not sure about that posture part. Even some Harvard doctors say that strong back muscles are important for the right posture: ''Your back not only allows you to move, it also supports you. Along with muscles in the abdomen, sides, pelvis, hips, and buttocks, the back muscles make up your core. Weak core muscles combined with repeat daily activities such as looking down at your smartphone or typing at your computer can lead to poor posture. Fortunately, strengthening the muscles in the back can help you improve postural problems. Back muscle training may also help protect you from injury and back pain. As with other muscles, the muscles surrounding your spine can weaken with age or lack of exercise, making you more prone to injury and pain. The back muscles help support the vertebrae, disks, ligaments, and facet joints. Strong back muscles provide essential support to the spine, reducing the likelihood of strains, sprains, and other injuries that can occur during lifting, bending, or twisting movements. ''
Mike is the only fitness RU-vidr that not only gives great information, makes you die laughing while watching his videos. The dominatrix joked almost made me choke on my drink 😂
Marks out of 10 for this training routine : Suicide 🙂 This is one of the best yet. Scott, I don't know how you don't just burst out laughing. I'd have to set the camera on automatic and leave the room. I'd be on the ground howling with laughter. It's both the one liners and the deadpan delivery. I *LOVE* these videos.
Dr. Mike.... I am not really even into fitness or looking to change my exercise. I just subscribed -- because you are the funniest, most articulate podcaster out. Great to hear you speak.
a few months ago I was really worried about my flexibility. I started following your videos and discovered the power of the stretch, thus I began to perform sets with heavy stretches as far as my joints were comfortable. You know what happened? I got psicologically and phisically used to it and now I have great flexibility.
@@alexc7789 with "stretching" i mean stretch under load, not stretching routine before the exercise but rather the exercise itself. No, i dont remember a specific video, but he talks about it a lot
Yup. I always had issues with my hips and lower back. Stretching did alleviate it but turns out lowering the weight enough that I could Squat to full depth rather than half squatting and then building the weight back up has done more to permanently fix any stiffness I was dealing with.
