Daily Maestroism

DM #67

Friday, July 29th, 2016

DM #67: Just wanted to follow up on yesterday’s DM since it got such a great response. Here’s the deal people: Long femurs are by no means an excuse to stop working on your squat technique. If your mobility sucks, I don’t care how long or short your femurs are, your squat is gonna look like ?. Notice that in yesterday's DM I said that this ratio will AFFECT torso lean; I by no means said it is sole determinant.
We should ALWAYS strive for virtuous shapes and virtuous movement patterns. In order to execute any movement, we must first possess the prerequisite mobility. Aka, make sure stuff works good. In the presence of full mobility, we now need stability to make sure that all the parts play nicely together. If you are lacking either of these two components, your movement patterns will be dysfunctional. It’s very simple.
My point with the last DM was simply that everyone’s squat is going to look different, however, everyone should seek virtuous positioning. The amount of torso lean that occurs with long femurs should not be so much that you start looking like a pancake. That, my friends, is just crappy movement. I’m a member of Team #LongFemur, and I can still achieve a pretty upright position (especially with air squats and front squats), it’s just not quite as ‘beautiful’ as some of the folks from Team #ShortFemur.

Long story short, don’t hide behind your anthropometrics. Address all mobility and stability dysfunctions first, THEN see how things look.
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