Squat depth is literally the key to building Leg muscle because you get a much better contraction and load on the muscle. Quality video explaining how to slowly ease into it.
There is no such thing as a "better contraction" in this context and the contraction also doesn't matter. What's important is getting the muscle stretcher under tension but mostly exerting yourself hard enough. If your mobility is bad you will just reach the stretched position earlier so that isn't an issue. Only if your muscles don't reach a lot of stretch because other muscles are way less mobile and you can't reach your biggest possible stretch on the others
I've read that East Asian people have longer Achilles tendons than everyone else, especially Caucasians. It's the reason why squatting is the default sitting position there. The natural ability and practice add up to their exceptional ability to hold this position.
this is exactly what i’ve been looking for. I have never been able to do squat with a bar on my back due to poor ankle and hip mobility. maybe i haven’t been looking hard enough but no suggestions or information i’ve seen up til now have seemed specific enough for my issue. thanks professor 🤙🏽
I can squat all the way down too and I'm white, but my asian friends can just squat all the way down and be comfortable? Like when there are no chairs and the ground is wet they just squat there and talk haha. It's not even effort for them somehow
@@fieldy409it’s bc they didn’t stop doing it after learning how to properly walk after early childhood like most western cultures do nowadays. besides east asians there’s other ethnicities that utilized the floor and lower seating areas more before globalization but now everyone barely does and loses the ankle mobility when they get older
I still always say the best drill you can do for squat mobility is to squat facing a wall with toes against the wall or very close to it. It will train your brain / motor functioning ability and help you keep good posture at all times.
@@Icameinclutch He was referring to gopniks. If you want more info on the topic, I recommend the videos "How to squat like Slav" and "What is Gopnik?" by the channel "Life of Boris".
The thing with deep squats, I tend to develop knee pain the longer I do it. My quads gets smaller. But with 90 degree squats, my legs blew up and i get stronger without knee pain
I’ve realized this over the last few years. I’ve always had mobility and balance in my lower body so I got no problem going that low and hanging out in that position. It blew my mind when I found out that a lot of people lose their balance if they go past a normal squat
I like how u teach ppl how to train the mind muscle connection. I'm a believer of having the best form is more important than training strength. Strength can be achieved as long as u'r working ur muscles. So I guess the whole point of lifting is learning how to do it right and ur muscles will grow strong on its own as long as u keep working them
I used to go ass to grass and kept developing knee pain. Thought I was doing something wrong, asked the internet. Apparently being bow legged and deel squats is not recommended.
@@spacecandygames7575 Yea I remember seeing a video about it on TH-cam but women are more flexible and can usually recover from leg days faster than men. It was this TH-cam channel where the main guy is a young athletic looking dude (i think it’s Justin ethier?) not sure but I think the channel is run by a science lab or something
@@spacecandygames7575because life is about balance and women are already so much physically weaker and less durable than men. So they got the limber, supple ligaments and flexibility to balance the gifts out a little better. Like all 2 genders have what the other gender doesn’t have.
The goblet squats and rack hold squat helps with that. You keep a straight back and use the weight to counter balance yourself. And slowly you'll be able to hold the weight closer to yourself while keeping you back straight, till you're able to squat straight back without any weight at all. Goblet squats are what ultimately allowed me to squat very deep with a straight back.
Literally exactly what I needed. Your channel is helping me with so many mobility issues I never knew I had. Liked, Commented, copied the link to help with the algie
About got that depth, use the Aerobic step platform and just keep moving levels down, now starting to touch with just the platform, gonna be for a set of 50 by the New Year!!!!
With my current right knee’s condition, this is a distant distant dream. I was getting into deeper squats until knee injury happened! 😭 Now I feel like cringing and crying in pain watching these deep squats
I can do that deep, nobody cares and most people at my gym can. It's a powerlifter gym though. I'm pretty sure it actually makes it harder to get more, more range of motion before you can get that natural bounce to do a bigger squat. But IDK if that's true i'm only bro-sciencing haha.
@@fieldy409 if it is a powerlifting gym then ofc no one cares But I go to a gym that is not a powerlifting gym so it makes more sense when I go atf with a 2 sec pause it turns heads
I was a taekwondo player since i was 4 Y.O, stopped workingout for the last 5 years, 24 years old now, i started the gym 1 week ago and today i squatted with my own body weight and i felt so much pain around my knees and couldn't make a good 15 rep, what should i do??
I'm a 215 pound man and I have the same depth. Ankle and hip mobility is great. Sprained an ankle a year ago from a 15ft fall. Not as mobile as it was, but it's still more than 100% range of motion.
i just do dynamic stretching... lunges forward and backwards going rock bottom like kneesovertoesguy. Lunges side-to-side but when i get to the bottom, I roll my knees forward.
some older guy at the gym interrupted my set to tell me not to squat deep. He went on a rant about his knees and basically told me i'm going to hurt myself because he did. I hate unsolicited advice at the gym
@@OmegaLaser-xy4ip you can't achieve full ROM in a half squat, you're cheating yourself and your hip mobility. Obviously you aren't going to squat as deep if you haven't built the strength for it with heavier weights.
Yeah but I find I can lift only my bodyweight weight using full ROM but parallel squat don't feel good to my knees, I think they are bad for joints as you can use much heavier weights@@zada2423
Depth squat below 90 degrees is not recommended for any elderly people, knees damaged, or even those youngsters, unless they have a experienced trainer to guide them and enough protection as well.
Never did any of these exercises, but I did train with 10minute splits flexibility routines on TH-cam. Still can’t do the splits but day 1 was able to go this deep in front squats. (I trained flexibility and pistol squats a couple months before going to barbell)
The best fitness advice I ever got was "stop worrying about your squat depth and just go as low as you're comfortable and your body type is designed for" As long as you're close to parallel it's perfectly fine. It really doesn't even matter because unless the only leg exercise you do is barbell squats you'll get plenty of variety to hit your muscles at every angle, back squats, front squats, my favorite elevated step back lunges, walking lunges, legg press, leg extensions and curls, weighted hyper extensions, ect ect... All these fitness influencers pushing the nonsense of how important it is to be able to do ass to grass squats has probably ruined the knees of countless thousands of people who's skeletal frame is simply not designed to do that.
People really do stare at you when you get can into a full ass to calves squat. Thing is, it is very challenging to be powerful from that position, especially if you dead stop at the bottom and don't bounce. It really gives you an appreciation for Olympic lifters that can hit the snatch with gargantuan amounts of weight.
@@idc1121 kinda hard to when you’re butt is 4 inches from the ground and you can’t go up because you have the absolute minimum mechanical advantage for moving your body up and away from the bar
@HugoStuff entirely doable. 1st thing you learn when starting squats is how to bail correctly and safely. If people didn't do this... they should go back and learn it. Often having a spotter behind you is less helpful and can actually be more dangerous for both people.
![Squat Form For Your Anatomy [Perfect Depth Stance And Width]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7FF6VLej_bY/mqdefault.jpg)
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That girl would squat deeper but the earth is in the way
Holy shiet
Can i b the earth plz
woman*. does she look like a child to you? give her real respect, male.
@@marycanary3871womp womp
@@marycanary3871Who asked, little girl?
Squat University is the Khan Academy of the physical body
Spot on😂
Na one is actually based of facts
@@OMAR-vk9pi your mom is based off facts
@@tweak23got his ass 😂
Calm down
My knees said no while watching this
mine too, i wish there is way for us to improve that
@@o81417 Some people are just good for nothing.
It's not good for your knees. Don't listen to these influencers @@o81417
They are the smart ones. It’s not worth the strain but on your knees to go so far past 90 degrees.
@@o81417there are plenty of ways to train your knees to handle more stress, just look up kneesovertoesguy. Hs puts out some great stuff.
Squat depth is literally the key to building Leg muscle because you get a much better contraction and load on the muscle. Quality video explaining how to slowly ease into it.
There is no such thing as a "better contraction" in this context and the contraction also doesn't matter. What's important is getting the muscle stretcher under tension but mostly exerting yourself hard enough. If your mobility is bad you will just reach the stretched position earlier so that isn't an issue. Only if your muscles don't reach a lot of stretch because other muscles are way less mobile and you can't reach your biggest possible stretch on the others
Wow... U guys just making a sh... As a sprinter I can say it.
This guy is an idiot
You have no clue what you are talking about. Sorry
A"s's talking at it finest.
Tip: squatting down to pet street cats also counts towards your squat mobility routine
That's actually an adorable and creative way to get more exercise.
Till they scratch your Achilles Tendon. 🙃
@@oOFidel19Xxwear kevlar!
Mobility training going too well, accidentally sat on cat
Me living in Japan where people sit like this since they were babies so everyone at the gym as perfect deep squats 😭😭
Surprisingly even the elderly in Japan can sit like this and move around easily
Same in india...
I've read that East Asian people have longer Achilles tendons than everyone else, especially Caucasians.
It's the reason why squatting is the default sitting position there.
The natural ability and practice add up to their exceptional ability to hold this position.
@@andrasszabo1570 you just Google that?
That's how you supposed to take a shit so everyone is able to do it just never did.
this is exactly what i’ve been looking for. I have never been able to do squat with a bar on my back due to poor ankle and hip mobility. maybe i haven’t been looking hard enough but no suggestions or information i’ve seen up til now have seemed specific enough for my issue. thanks professor 🤙🏽
Been deep squat pooping for over 7 years and it has absolutely transformed my mobility into superhuman! Bodyweight deep squat is all you need 💯💩😄👌🏼
Squatting to poop is elite! 👌
Just comes out so much easier and nicer
@@nunyabusiness5275 Shit yeah! 😂😂😂
@@nunyabusiness5275wtf
So you've been pooping on the floor... Shame
@@mith2946 ground, not floor. Learn the difference
“She’s recording, I’m not helping her up” 😂
definitely what blud was saying😂
True 😂
She was literally squatting for attention
@@T.M.... that apply to other influences.
including guys.
@@ADCVr Doesn’t change the fact…?
*Asian squat has entered the chat*
Right? I always confuse why they need training for deep squat while I do it easily
Indians entering with their ego
I can squat all the way down too and I'm white, but my asian friends can just squat all the way down and be comfortable?
Like when there are no chairs and the ground is wet they just squat there and talk haha. It's not even effort for them somehow
not only convent squat but pistol squat also hahahaha @@fieldy409
@@fieldy409it’s bc they didn’t stop doing it after learning how to properly walk after early childhood like most western cultures do nowadays. besides east asians there’s other ethnicities that utilized the floor and lower seating areas more before globalization but now everyone barely does and loses the ankle mobility when they get older
gawd damn i forget how strong aaron actually is sometimes but that squat is super impressive
I still always say the best drill you can do for squat mobility is to squat facing a wall with toes against the wall or very close to it. It will train your brain / motor functioning ability and help you keep good posture at all times.
Holy shit she didn't even have a triple stripe adidas costume with that squat.
#slavsquat
#gopniksquat🍻
What?
@@Icameinclutch
He was referring to gopniks.
If you want more info on the topic, I recommend the videos "How to squat like Slav" and "What is Gopnik?" by the channel "Life of Boris".
😂😅😊
Pause squatting what looks like 300 lbs, dude is a monster in human form
And it's a front squat too
Bumper plates...
@@cyborgar15what’s your point? Bumpers don’t make it easier. 🤦♂️
@@MatteoFitness not 300lbs..
@@cyborgar15the front pause squat is about 285
Watching your videos made me realize that my yoga classes are the best practice!
Thanks for the screenshot pause. Super helpful.
Wish I had a personal trainer like this
Get some money and you can
That’s why he’s making videos, you can do it all without a personal trainer
Find me I PT and follow a bunch of this guys advice. We out here. 😊
@@iNeedVitaminsnot really! You still need a professional to tell you if you have the right form or not
You can record and post on one of many forums where ppl will give you good advices@@Rihla_a-z
Never turn your head when there is pressure on the spine!
She lives for the reaction
Or exhale at the bottom
Glad someone said it. She could have paralysed herself to check if blokes were checking her out.
Twisting and loading is a terrible combo
@@suhwateezea.214 Women live for attention ☕️
Amazing craftsmanship and the dedication is insane. You are very gifted.
She use to droppin in at that egregarious angle😂
you have easily one of the best fitness education pages on TH-cam. fantastic work man
That “have fun” At the end hits hard. Lets get it brothers and sisters 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
Great vid - seeing the outcome of training and opening up your body with mobility.
❤🔥
i cant even bend my knees comfortably that much 7 months after acl surgery i miss this sm😭😭😭😭
Bro always knows how to draw us in 😭😭😭
Haha the incels
@@Olutradez non-incels don't like women?
@@hulking_presencethey aren’t drawn in to a video by simply seeing a woman in it 😂
@@Olutradezwhat is an incel?
@@MatteoFitness youre acting like watching a 5 second clip is selling your soul or something
The thing with deep squats, I tend to develop knee pain the longer I do it. My quads gets smaller. But with 90 degree squats, my legs blew up and i get stronger without knee pain
Deep squats is same for me. It's like a body mechanic thing instead of muscle iirc
"But with 90 degree squats..." Alrighty there Dr. Joel Seedman.
@@CJHan i meant squats just above parallel
@@CJHanno need to roast him lol, he's just stating his own experience
You could have flexibility issues as well, he has tests in videos that help compare left vs right and find differences that can cause pain
Thanks for dropping the routine
No one writes it down so people can screen shot, this is so nice!
as my son says "ass to grass"
Your son is so clever he must have invented that phrase
Hence why I don't cut my grass
This is perfect slavic squat even without adidas costume!
Thank you!!! I cant believe your content is for free. 😊
MAN YOU ARE THE TREASURE OF TH-cam SHORTS! You cannot imagine how you helped me!
Gablet squats… I’ll have to try those
As an Indian, I've been unintentionally practising for the deep squat my whole life...
Hahahhaha this comment made my day 😂
Terko bhi murga banaya
underrated comment
You poop directly onto the dirt
💩
I’ve realized this over the last few years. I’ve always had mobility and balance in my lower body so I got no problem going that low and hanging out in that position. It blew my mind when I found out that a lot of people lose their balance if they go past a normal squat
I like how u teach ppl how to train the mind muscle connection. I'm a believer of having the best form is more important than training strength. Strength can be achieved as long as u'r working ur muscles. So I guess the whole point of lifting is learning how to do it right and ur muscles will grow strong on its own as long as u keep working them
I love when my warm up takes as long as my actual work out
Short femurs + maximal ankle dorsiflexion
This is the moment when Squat University became Slav University.
This is fantastic thank you so much
My knees could never 😅
Thank GOD for your content. I feel like I was so close to injury before watching this
I used to go ass to grass and kept developing knee pain.
Thought I was doing something wrong, asked the internet.
Apparently being bow legged and deel squats is not recommended.
Tibial rotation has made the biggest improvement for my squats.
It’s easier on females than males. We have more flexibility and mobility than men
I often wonder why that is, I’ve seen women who never worked out a day in their life be almost as flexible as me and I train for mobility
Yeah i just squat low enough for my 🥜 to touch the ground, that’s how i know i’m low enough.
@@spacecandygames7575
Yea I remember seeing a video about it on TH-cam but women are more flexible and can usually recover from leg days faster than men. It was this TH-cam channel where the main guy is a young athletic looking dude (i think it’s Justin ethier?) not sure but I think the channel is run by a science lab or something
@@spacecandygames7575because life is about balance and women are already so much physically weaker and less durable than men. So they got the limber, supple ligaments and flexibility to balance the gifts out a little better. Like all 2 genders have what the other gender doesn’t have.
@@giggityeffyou You mean Jeremy Ethier?
I needed this yesterday
This helped me figure out I already have great squat mobility
@SquatUniversity, That’s great for calf mobility, but what do you suggest for maintaining neutral spine throughout the motion?🤔
Ankle and calf mobility translates to a neutral spine... eliminates butt wink
The goblet squats and rack hold squat helps with that. You keep a straight back and use the weight to counter balance yourself. And slowly you'll be able to hold the weight closer to yourself while keeping you back straight, till you're able to squat straight back without any weight at all.
Goblet squats are what ultimately allowed me to squat very deep with a straight back.
@@Bramble20322 there's many factors.. The video was about ankle and calf
I’d imagine hamstring and hip flexer mobility would help with that
@@thebigbronkowskinot at all. They aren’t connected
Legend has it she’s still in the that squat position
Example of musculoskeletal proportions perfect for squat with form. Notice torso and lower leg range of movement it took to get the bumm to the floor.
Ohh squat depth yeah was totally looking at that, good job ghurl you got dis squat defpth
Literally exactly what I needed. Your channel is helping me with so many mobility issues I never knew I had.
Liked, Commented, copied the link to help with the algie
yeah for sure I was just thinking about that depth
About got that depth, use the Aerobic step platform and just keep moving levels down, now starting to touch with just the platform, gonna be for a set of 50 by the New Year!!!!
With my current right knee’s condition, this is a distant distant dream. I was getting into deeper squats until knee injury happened! 😭 Now I feel like cringing and crying in pain watching these deep squats
As a guy, I am the rare kind with stupid good leg flexibility and mobility
So I also squat that depth
And that shit turns heads like crazy
Prove it
My dad can do the same but he is 56 and has never done a mobility exercise in his life, just how you are born I guess.
@@decl5439 noice
I can do that deep, nobody cares and most people at my gym can. It's a powerlifter gym though.
I'm pretty sure it actually makes it harder to get more, more range of motion before you can get that natural bounce to do a bigger squat. But IDK if that's true i'm only bro-sciencing haha.
@@fieldy409 if it is a powerlifting gym then ofc no one cares
But I go to a gym that is not a powerlifting gym so it makes more sense when I go atf with a 2 sec pause it turns heads
I can naturally squat as deep as possible for me, so I usually warm up with deep squats
I never done this before but I would love to try this kind of squats with equipments
I was a taekwondo player since i was 4 Y.O, stopped workingout for the last 5 years, 24 years old now, i started the gym 1 week ago and today i squatted with my own body weight and i felt so much pain around my knees and couldn't make a good 15 rep, what should i do??
See a PT
Buy beer
Make good 14 reps
My ligament surgeon is going to love it
Along with the PT who will be helping post surgery.
I'm a 215 pound man and I have the same depth. Ankle and hip mobility is great. Sprained an ankle a year ago from a 15ft fall. Not as mobile as it was, but it's still more than 100% range of motion.
Thanks for the screenshot!
Nobody can beat Asians when it comes to a 100% perfect squat
You definitely full of 💩
Facts it’s the deep squat that’s comfortable
@@solome6478 bigotry even in sports. Bunch of clowns with an egotistical complex 🙄
I'm not Asian. I can and do squat like this.
@@hopeebrown81 these clowns above and their overpumped up egotistical clap trap man.
Step 1: start squatting ass to grass with lighter weight
Step 2: progress to heavy weight naturally
And the Oscar goes too.🎉
My knees just exploded to the front wall😂
This is awesome. Could you also put the sets in the description of this vid so i can just copy and paste?
Just listen to write it down you lazy
That girl never got back up on her own, the guys helped her! Never believe everything you see on the internet!
i just do dynamic stretching... lunges forward and backwards going rock bottom like kneesovertoesguy. Lunges side-to-side but when i get to the bottom, I roll my knees forward.
Protect this guy at all costs
Russian squat basics😂
Bro. My ankles broke when i watched your squat.
Great tip
What's her IG tag?
Aubrey Farmica, OP really should credit the original creators more, he uses their vieeos but never even a mention.
@@daniels-mo9olyeah It’s unethical idk what his deal is
Focus bro! 10 galbit squats, go!
@@maxsokolow hahaha
some older guy at the gym interrupted my set to tell me not to squat deep. He went on a rant about his knees and basically told me i'm going to hurt myself because he did. I hate unsolicited advice at the gym
kinda true because its much harder so you will hurt yourself if you use too much weight
@@OmegaLaser-xy4ip you can't achieve full ROM in a half squat, you're cheating yourself and your hip mobility. Obviously you aren't going to squat as deep if you haven't built the strength for it with heavier weights.
Yeah but I find I can lift only my bodyweight weight using full ROM but parallel squat don't feel good to my knees, I think they are bad for joints as you can use much heavier weights@@zada2423
He's correct actually
@@AbdallahAhmed-qz6uu watch an Olympic lift
This channel is so amazing
My knee surgeon recommends against squatting below a 90 degree knee bend, how can you do this without meniscus damage?
If your doctor said dont why are you still trying to?
@@pyramidion5911 I'm not trying to....
Depth squat below 90 degrees is not recommended for any elderly people, knees damaged, or even those youngsters, unless they have a experienced trainer to guide them and enough protection as well.
Idk what is going on medically but you hypothetically should be able to train for more knee flexion and this is better for knee health
I like the way this guy says goblet, thank God for captions
Never did any of these exercises, but I did train with 10minute splits flexibility routines on TH-cam. Still can’t do the splits but day 1 was able to go this deep in front squats. (I trained flexibility and pistol squats a couple months before going to barbell)
The best fitness advice I ever got was "stop worrying about your squat depth and just go as low as you're comfortable and your body type is designed for"
As long as you're close to parallel it's perfectly fine.
It really doesn't even matter because unless the only leg exercise you do is barbell squats you'll get plenty of variety to hit your muscles at every angle, back squats, front squats, my favorite elevated step back lunges, walking lunges, legg press, leg extensions and curls, weighted hyper extensions, ect ect...
All these fitness influencers pushing the nonsense of how important it is to be able to do ass to grass squats has probably ruined the knees of countless thousands of people who's skeletal frame is simply not designed to do that.
in parallel universe: her loud fart turned one head
As an Afghani man this how we pee and chill in this position for hours just hanging around
That's awesome i'm trying next leg day for sure
Meanwhile in asia 80 year old grandmas doing deeper squats
I grabbed a rack, now I’m in prison
aubrey formica is soo good she's amazing
Knees entered chat
That guy was thinking "yeah she could take the whole thing." 😂Men aren't really impressed by those living on easy mode.
Looks good, why the elevated heel in beginning? Simply for those without good enough mobility to start flat?
Nice outfit. Perfect for disco
That smile of hers❤😂
Upper legs Parallel to the ground is better because there's constant resistance on the quads and glutes
Cool video and all, the "gaulbet squat threw me off tho" 😂
That is seriously impressive
You, sir, are an angel. X
ATG! Love to see it🎉
I was waiting to see her come up! Man let her finish 😂
People really do stare at you when you get can into a full ass to calves squat. Thing is, it is very challenging to be powerful from that position, especially if you dead stop at the bottom and don't bounce. It really gives you an appreciation for Olympic lifters that can hit the snatch with gargantuan amounts of weight.
Whew 😅 normal gym girl! She laughed instead of blaming someone for stalking 😂
squats to absolute maximum depth are fun, but just make sure to still have a spotter or the things that catch the bar
u can drop the bar behind u
@@idc1121 kinda hard to when you’re butt is 4 inches from the ground and you can’t go up because you have the absolute minimum mechanical advantage for moving your body up and away from the bar
@HugoStuff entirely doable. 1st thing you learn when starting squats is how to bail correctly and safely. If people didn't do this... they should go back and learn it. Often having a spotter behind you is less helpful and can actually be more dangerous for both people.