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Thank you so much for checking out today's show.

This is episode 21 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with 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, I want to dive back into discussing squat technique and specifically cover

one of the most common faults I see in the

weight room and how you can start fixing it. So the title of today's class is going to be

fixing the rounded back squat. Now, the dreaded rounded back squat is one of the most common

technique faults seen of all the technique faults. Ask yourself if this sounds familiar or if

you've seen this with your own technique or you're a coach and you've seen this with one of your

athletes. The setup of the squat looks good. The descent is looking smooth. But on the way up,

the back starts to round and the chest hunches over, almost like there's a turtle shell on their

back. I think we've all seen that before. Usually the main

culprit behind this will call it the turtle shell squat is a lack of core stability.

Now during the execution of this squat, we require all the muscles that surround the spine

to work together in perfect coordination in order to keep our back from buckling in two basically.

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