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  • 08/27/2015 at 12:23 am in reply to: squatting 101 #76177
    AvatarMike Horn
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    I’ve watched Paoli’s squat progression, and slowly lowering myself to a box/plates, I find that I can go much lower using his method (rounded back) than I can with neutral spine. So I guess I’m not sure how helpful this is.

    When I goblet squat at normal speed, I can also go lower than I can when slowly lowering myself to a box. It seems to me that my relative weakness is in the eccentric loading of the glutes and hamstrings. At normal speed descent, I think it’s easy to lose tightness and not notice it. On slow speed descent, losing posterior chain tightness results in dropping down to the box without control. 

    My thinking is to follow a typical box squat progression (unloaded though, since even bodyweight is a challenge for me when going very slow) using normal width stance where I start with a box high enough that I can control my descent all the way to the box. And then gradually lower the box to challenge, but not overwhelm, my posterior chain’s ability to eccentrically load over the increased range of motion. Thoughts on this?
    08/25/2015 at 6:28 pm in reply to: Hip external rotation while walking? #76175
    AvatarMike Horn
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    Mike, I understand the hip extension mobilization that Kelly is demonstrating, but not sure I understand the position you suggest mobilizing in – hip extension with internal rotation. Would a good mobilization for that be a kneeling ‘couch’ stretch with the lower leg (of the rear leg) rotated outward?

    07/25/2015 at 10:01 am in reply to: New MWOD Door Anchor on Rogue #76116
    AvatarMike Horn
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    Rogue has issued a recall on the door anchors: http://www.roguefitness.com/recall-information/

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