What difference does a two-inch stance width adjustment making the execution of a squat?

What happens if the two-inch adjustment is made at the heels or the toes?

Does an effect on the foot angle alter the movement mechanics above the feet?

How?

More importantly, how many pages could be written about this single topic and how many popular books on exercise devote only one page to the entire discussion of the squad itself?

How is the topic addressed by the major exercise certification mills?

How many correctly designed studies on the squat exist in the literature.

When a person graduates to barbell training and advances from merely exercising to the study of strength training,

loaded human movement using a barbell without falling down.

Well, things change drastically. The system of skeletal levers and the muscles that move it

must interact effectively with both the barbell and the base of support, which is usually the floor, but occasionally the bench.

All barbell movements, not just a popularly revered snatch and clean-and-jerk,

are complex accumulations of muscular and leverage effort, affected by every single permutation of position, angle, and bar path. Each of the variables must be

identified, understood, assessed for efficiency, and coached effectively. An enormously intricate

task is being undertaken, the complexity of which is usually overlooked, certainly by the uninformed

observer, and sometimes even by us. It occurs to me that the difference between an expert

barbell coach and a personal trainer is as stark and every bit as vast as that between a neurosurgeon and an LVN,

a corrective dentist and a toothbrush salesman,

or a chemical engineer and a freshman chemistry major.

This difference must be appreciated by you, the coach,

lived up to during your practice,

and valued by your clients and trainees.

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