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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

880: How to Squat Like a Pro

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

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

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam & Justin discuss what it takes to master the squat.

  • Tribalism and fostering an open minded community. (2:24)
  • How to Squat Like a Pro (17:30)
    • Why Squatting is Important and what is considered strong for a squat? (18:50)
    • When & How to Add Resistance. (24:20)
    • Our Best Squatting Tips: The most important keys to getting a good, deep squat, that's actually quite commonly overlooked. (31:34)
    • Takeaways and actionable steps. (47:00)

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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, ob-mite, up with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

In this simplified episode,

0:16.0

Simplified, distilled, of mind-pump,

0:19.0

we wanted to talk all about squatting.

0:23.0

How to get a really, really good squat.

0:25.0

Now we opened up the episode with some fun banter.

0:27.0

I talk about how to have an adult conversation and civil debates on our favorite place to go on social media,

0:34.0

which is our private mind-pump forum.

0:37.0

But then after about 16 minutes, we get into the discussion about squatting.

0:42.0

Like how do you get your squat numbers to go up?

0:46.0

How do you become a black belt in squatting?

0:48.0

Why is a squat so important in terms of movement, but also in terms of performance and muscle?

0:54.0

In our own personal experiences with squatting and find out if you have a good squat,

1:00.0

so if you're squatting, you want to know how you compare with other people,

1:03.0

we refer to a chart that talks about what percentage of your body weight is considered decent, good, and great.

1:13.0

In this episode, we also mentioned our Prime and Prime Pro correctional exercise programming.

1:19.0

Very useful for people who want to be able to squat, who may not be able to,

1:23.0

because of pain or lack of stability, you can find those two programs.

1:27.0

Actually, they're both bundled together in the Prime bundle, which means they're discounted on our website,

1:33.0

mapsfitnessproducts.com.

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