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Podcast listeners, thank you so much for checking out today's show.

This is episode 47 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with each and every 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's podcast is all about squat technique.

For some of you out there, today's content of the show will seem like common sense.

But for others, it may be the first time

you're ever hearing some of these finer points of technique on the specific exercises of the

squat. Now, if you're a seasoned athlete, think of today as more of a refresher course for

squat technique. There's a quote I really like from a famous chess player named Joshua

Weetskin that reads,

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery

of what may be a basic skill set.

I think this applies perfectly to the art of lifting, as often we look to those who are

elite in the sports of weightlifting, powerlifting, CrossFit, or Strongman, and think that they know something that we don't.

There's some cue that they know that has led them to become such a great athlete and lift

tremendous weight, and we don't know it.

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