From the new Assessing Movement DVD, featuring Gray Cook, Stuart McGill and Craig Liebenson. For more information, visit www.otpbooks.com/product/mcgil...
When an academic can teach this well, this is a rare commodity. Well done. Jane Sleeth Optimal Performance Consultants Applying the Mackenzie and McGill techniques since 1990
Makes sense Followed RU-vid fitness advice squatting deep. Which created two herniated discs l4- l5, l5-s1, hip impingement and torn left groin. Should've just stuck with range in my comfort zone.
Can confirm. I'm 6'3" and 100% Celtic decent and have had FAI surgery. My squat struggles hard to hit 90. I think I'm going to stop pushing it and just squat where I'm comfortable which is just above 90. I'm easily 10X more powerful just above 90 than at 90. My legs are like tree trunks anyway I dont need to hit 90. For example I can leg press and rep 900lb (I can do even more but theres no more room to add plates) no problem if I stay just above 90. But give me a barbell and tell me to go low and I cant even do 135. Its kind of ridiculous. I can lunge more than I can squat if that puts it into perspective. I find the lunge is superior to the squat. I also highly recommend squatting on a Pit Shark machine with the waist belt. It changed my whole perspective on squatting and my legs have gotten insanely strong without any hip , back, or knee discomfort whatsoever. Its an amazing machine for people with hip issues.
This is helpful. I watch Jason Gallant RU-vid natural body builder and he preaches to not go full range if your body is telling you otherwise. He does lots of partial reps and has built a great physique like that. I recommend to watch his stuff plus. He has really help me. Also want to try to look at the machine you mentioned 🥰
I have same hips and I am 6ft4, was pushing to go lower with 170lbs. End result of that squat? Herniated disc. Should have just stick with belt squat. Barbell is unforgiving with mistakes
@T diddy I tried using plates under my heels and it was instantly better! I went too hard because it was feeling amazing and now I have piriformis syndrome. That muscle under my glute swelled up and its pinching my sciatic nerve bad. Seems like back pain but it isn't. Imaging can be misleading... takes a really good PT Doctor to diagnose it. 4 weeks of dry needling with electrostim, several chiropractor visits, and physical therapy has the numbness in my leg starting to subside. I hope to squat again some day but... sigh... maybe not.
Seems like 95% of the Asian continent can squat deep. I couldn't squat deep. I thought it was my hip anatomy for 4 years because I just couldn't do it. Then I found the actual culprit(in my case). I stretched my glutes for a bit more than a month, every single day, each side for about 5mins per side. Also stretched my inner thighs for internal rotation. After a month or so I could easily move into very very deep squat. Felt super easy. So don't make the mistake I made by thinking it's your hip socket. I wasted 4 years of bad squats placing a lot of strain in unwanted places. Either go do the scan/x-ray to see if you actually have one of those hips, or stretch the right muscles for long enough so that you can actually move into a deep squat.
I’m a Scot watching this and I’m currently coming to terms with accepting I’m probably never going to be able to deep squat. With some hard work and perseverance I think I would be satisfied to be able to squat to parallel without buttwink. I have very poor ankle mobility and long femurs so that doesn’t help either. I have to use squat wedges and counterweight held out in front of me for it to feel good
Sadly, Many People on the internet still say that butt wink is fixable to sell useless "Mobility Program". I wish more people watch this video instead of buying those nonsense mobility program.
+sandra de oliveira Je ne pense pas qu'il y ait de traductions. En gros, il dit que la structure des hanches varient grandement chez les gens, et que c'est souvent relatif aux origines génétiques. Quelqu'un qui aurait des hanches qui permettent de d'atteindre un squat assez profond sans fléchir le bas du dos pour compenser (selon l'amplitude de mouvement de ses hanches) ferait probablement un moins bon sprinter, et vice-versa.
Surprised to see such speculative claims from Stuart McGill. Perhaps there's more meat than what's shown here... I would definitely like to see any large population studies that demonstrate the correlations he's proposing exist. Orthopedic journals are publishing articles regularly now showing there is no correlation between FAI bone shapes and ROM or pain. Some studies are even showing a total lack of correlation between dysplasia and hip pain. I'd also be curious to see more on how deep squatting in Asia is related.
Deep squatting is definitely not limited to Western Europe. It seems to be common (or was before Modernity came along), so research needs to account for cultural differences and actually inspect the genome rather than assume variation is "genetic." As important as hip anatomy is to deep squatting with heavy weights, the last time I checked it was limited ankle mobility that research indicated was preventing people from deep squatting at all.
