Ep. 140 - Squats Are Bad For You (The Origin of this Fitness Myth)

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

We’ve had medical doctors and physical therapists who specialize in lifting to dispel exercise-specific fears and myths around risk, outdated treatments, and reductionist narratives multiple times on Iron Culture. But, do you ever wonder why they have to dispel these myths in the first place? In this episode, Dr. Conor Heffernan, the strength historian, is back to teach us about the origins of these beliefs, narratives, and fears. Where did the Snap City fears of modern YouTube comments on deadlift and squat videos originate from? Why do some personal trainers, even in the modern era, fear deep squats or your knees passing your toes? Join us in this episode as we go way back, many decades before the majority of us were born to learn how these ideas were born!

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0:00.0	Eric, we're doing something different today.
0:03.9	Yeah, I mean, normally we talk over guests, but we thought maybe including them on the conversation would be a bold move forward for the podcast.
0:13.0	Yeah, they could be the fly on the wall and they could try and participate, but we'll exclude them just by our natural chemistry.
0:20.0	So, of course, we're joined by who?
0:22.0	It's obvious who it is.
0:23.4	Eric, Dr. Connor Heffernan, back in the house.
0:26.2	Here today to talk about what?
0:28.6	Oh, man, we got the strength historian on.
0:31.5	For those who don't remember, which is no one, because you're all loyal listeners,
0:36.6	we have had multiple conversations with the D.PTist of DPDs.
0:41.3	We've had Nicolikamele on.
0:43.3	We've had the Mr. Barbell Medicine himself on, that's an MD, folks.
0:48.3	That's a real doctor.
0:50.3	We've had Quinn Henock that sultry-voiced practitioner of the physical arts.
0:58.2	But we've had a lot of these roundtables where we've discussed some of these,
1:01.7	what I would describe as fragility narratives that have gone around in the lifting circle.
1:07.3	You don't want to do X, Y, or Z, or it'll X, Y, or Z, you're X, Y, or Z.
1:12.3	Basically all coming down to you don't want your knees to go over your toes.
1:15.9	You don't want to squat deep.
1:17.0	Or maybe you don't want to squat shallow.
1:18.5	Maybe you have to squat deep.
1:19.8	Or you don't want a deadlift with a round back.
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