1. Probably not. We're not ALL born with anything.
2. Movement patterns change over time. Ask any Olympic lifter about this.
3. Why do you hate your son? Have you got something against a normal childhood?
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Kids and the natural squat
Both of my kids love to go to the gym with me. Yesterday I had my 3.5 y.o. son take some pvc pipe and perform some squats with it. He did 5 squats all with perfect form; feet about shoulder width (maybe a little more) and knees out, feet angled out, head slightly down, perfect back and pipe followed a straight path in the coronal plane etc.
My questions:
1. Are we all born with natural correct squat form?
2. For whatever reason do we "unlearn" the proper technique?
3. Or should I be training my son for the 2020 Olympics?
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1. Probably not. We're not ALL born with anything.
2. Movement patterns change over time. Ask any Olympic lifter about this.
3. Why do you hate your son? Have you got something against a normal childhood?
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I had a girlfriend at Uni who used to be on the junior Olympic squad for Britain, specialising in 100 and 200 metre sprints, until they saw that she couldn't take the special "vitamins" any more and they booted her. (Yes, guys, even elite atheletes from developed Western countries take roids, at least that's what "they" tell me).
Her athletic past left some problems:
1. She could easily kick my arse.
2. Her liver and kidneys were fucked and she was always a borderline jaundice case.
3. She had a period once or twice a year.
4. She had awful social skills as she was always at some fucking training camp throughout her childhood and never learned how to interact with normal people.
I also know a pro basketball player here in Greece who explained to me that the reason all the players have such bad off-court behaviour is because they never had fun as kids, always being at basketball practice or camps.
Sport is supposed to be fun.
Just my two Euro cents worth.
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