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Podcast listeners, thank you so much for checking out today's show. This is episode 11 of the Squat

University podcast. The goal with each and ever one of these

shows is to bring you as much value-packed content to help you move better in the gym and in life,

decrease your body's aches and pains, and help you reach your true athletic potential.

Now, today we're going to jump in and go over a little anatomy so that you can learn a little bit

more about your body. Now, I don't want to go

over muscle and bones the way many of us were taught in school. I remember sitting in the back

of anatomy class in college and endlessly trying to memorize where each individual muscle

in the body starts and originates and then attaches what nerves innervated or connect to them

and all that stuff.

That would be so boring if that's what we talked about on the podcast.

So instead, I want to go over anatomy in a way that relates to help you move better and

understand how your body lifts weights from an injury perspective and from a performance point of view. So I want to take

these very difficult to understand and boring subjects and relate them in a way that we can take

something out of this and apply it to the weight room. So with that being said, the title of today's

class will be Anatomy 101, the Glute Medias.

Now, let's quickly go over anatomy of your lateral hip to help you better understand the muscles that you can find there.

Now, your glute medias is this large sort of fan-shaped muscle that runs from the lateral part of your pelvis called your iliac crest and connects with one single tendon to the side of your femur or your thigh bone.

Now your glute medias is just one of three glute or butt muscles. There's also the glute minimus. It's basically a little bit of a smaller

muscle that fits right behind the glute medias and runs from the side of your pelvis all the way

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