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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1467: How to Squat for Your Body Type With Dr. Aaron Horschig

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin talk all things squat with Squat University's Dr. Aaron Horschig.

  • The origin story of Squat University and his reasoning behind the name. (3:37)
  • Understanding your anatomy and why people like to blame theirs. (10:28)
  • What is “butt-wink” and it is optimal for your body? (14:55)
  • Why everyone's body has its own set of needs and requirements to perform properly. (19:30)
  • His order of operations assessing a first-time client. (23:54)
  • What happens to the body when you do mobility and why should I care about doing it daily? (26:54)
  • Why he subscribes to muscle re-education. (32:50)
  • Are squats a fundamental human movement? (34:13)
  • Can you justify a quarter squat for a basketball player? (38:33)
  • Is there a test to find your ideal squat stance? (40:16)
  • What are the major differences between correctional exercise and exercise to build strength & muscle? (45:19)
  • What irks him the most about the physical therapy space? (49:06)
  • Don’t ignore your physical capacity. (51:45)
  • Why you shouldn’t stop inflammation, but understand it instead. (54:12)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You are listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.0

You guessed it, this is Mind Pup.

0:19.0

Now, today's episode we talk about squatting with one of the world's authorities

0:23.0

on one of the best exercises you could possibly do.

0:25.0

We talk to Dr. Aaron Horshig from squat university, great guy, very smart person,

0:31.0

performance oriented, physical therapist.

0:34.0

And in this episode we talk about how to squat for your body type.

0:38.0

So it's one of the best exercises, but not everybody should be squatting the same.

0:42.0

By the way, you can find Dr. Aaron Horshig at squatuniversity.com,

0:46.0

or you can find him on Instagram. He's got a great Instagram page at dr Aaron.

0:52.0

So that's AAROMHORSCIG.

0:57.0

By the way, it has a new book called Rebuilding Milo, pretty, pretty cool stuff.

1:02.0

By the way, this episode is brought to you by our sponsor Paleo Valley.

1:05.0

It makes some pretty great products.

1:07.0

We talk about one of the products all the time because we love them.

1:10.0

In fact, Justin sitting to my right right now is actually chewing on one of these.

1:13.0

It's a grass-fed meat stick.

1:16.0

So it's like jerky, but it's not dry.

1:19.0

And it's grass-fed, great macros, great snack.

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