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

This is episode 28 of the Squat University podcast.

The goal with each and every one of these shows is to bring you as much value pat

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 share with you an extremely valuable test and assessment screen that

I use with all of my athletes that I evaluate that you can perform on your own.

This screen can help you expose a weak link that you may have and that could be the why

behind technique faults such as a hip shift or a knee collapse or even a current injury you

may be having like a back knee or even hip pain.

Now this is something I've shared a number of times over the past few years across social media platforms,

but we'll be able to dive into it a little bit more in detail today,

and that is the single-leg bridge test.

Now, the goal with this test is to see how your body responds to the movement of hip extension.

Now, this is the exact same movement that occurs at your

hip joint when you stand up from a squat, from a deadlift, anytime you pull the barbell from

the ground to propel your body upwards, that is hip extension, even driving your body down a track

when you're sprinting. Now, if you have a problem in creating hip extension, either on one or

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