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This is episode 24 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 bodies, aches, and pains, and help you reach your true athletic potential.

Now, today we are going to go over a common problem in squat technique that I see far too often in all the direct messages

that I get on Instagram and all the different tags that I get of trying to help people

with their squat technique.

This is probably one of the most common.

This is called the Good Morning or the stripper squat fault.

Hopefully these two descriptors are enough to give you a picture of what

this problem looks like. Basically, somewhat squat is going to look pretty good on the descent.

They'll look inbalanced. Everything's looking very good. They reach a good bottom position.

But on the way up, the hips rise excessively fast. The chest sort of drops forward. Obviously, that's where the

stripper squad description comes in. Or people will just say it looks like a good morning because

the good morning is where the bar is on the back and the chest is going forward while the hips

are back. It's almost like an RDL Romanian deadlift, but with the bar on your back instead of

being held out in front like a

deadlift. Now, there's two main theories as to why this problem occurs during the squad. The first

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