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This is Brent, president of B2c Fitness talking
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about a squat, good squat form, and then how
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to regress a squat for somebody with lower leg dysfunction or an excessive forward lean.
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I'm going to have Vinny go ahead and help us demonstrate here.
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First thing I'm going to have Vinny do is, show us what form is supposed to look like
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from the front, or a sagittal plane view of the squat.
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First thing we need to do is align or lower body joints.
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So we want hip, knees and feet in a straight line, that is feet should be hip to shoulder
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width apart and parallel to each other.
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Either first toe or second toe parallel to each other.
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As you can see Vinny is comfortable with his second toes parallel to each other.
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His feet are right between hip and shoulder width apart.
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Vinny go ahead and descend down.
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Good and as you can see when he descends down into a squat, from a sagittal plane view everything
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lines up very nicely.
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His hips, knees and feet are all tracking right over each other.
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So, next thing we're going to do is show a frontal plane view.
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Now here we have a little discrepancy in form.
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We have a torso with an excessive forward lean.
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That is, his tibia and torso should be parallel to each other so that we can ensure that his
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hips, knees and ankles are taking their fair share of the force.
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That is his calves, quads, and glutes are taking their share of the force.
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We're a little too collapsed.
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If you imagine here's his tibia angle, here's his torso angle, those lines should not intersect
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each other.
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Now this is very common, once again, in people with lumbo-pelvic hip complex dysfunction
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and, or lower leg dysfunction.
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We can make an adjustment to his squat so that he can continue resistance train using
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By just doing our ball wall squat regression.
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So what a ball allows us to do is move our feet out a little bit.
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It takes some of the stretch off our ankle, that is we don't need quite as much dorsiflexion.
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It also forces us to lean back a little bit, so that excessive forward lean is then corrected.
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What I'm going to have Vinny do is not necessarily push back into the ball, but just use the
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ball for assistance.
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And then sit back into a squat just as he normally would.
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He's then going to use his glutes to drive his hips forward as he comes up.
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Now this looks pretty good.
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If Vinny had been working on his corrective exercise strategy, we noticed he had progressed,
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we might try to create an intermediary step between this and a normal squat.
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And that's simply the ball out in front squat.
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So now we're giving him a little bit of a counter balance.
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Unfortunately, at this point in time, Vinny goes right back to that excessive forward
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So we know where Vinny should be at for now.
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We're going to go right back to that ball wall squat.
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His form looks good there, we'll make sure in his warm up we'll continue trying to correct
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this dysfunction.
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This doesn't mean we can't progress this exercise however.
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Once Vinny is doing this squat well, we can go ahead and add dumbbells.
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And if we're doing strength training this can be heavier dumbbells keeping our reps
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under 12.
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If we're doing endurance training we can use slightly lighter dumbbells and keep our reps
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between 12 and 20.
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As Vinny improves his flexibility, we can progress him back through.
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So ball wall squat, to a ball out front squat, to a regular squat.
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We can start adding weight to that squat, back squats, front squats.
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And then as his mobility and stability further improves we can move on to step ups and lunges.