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> Yes, but these are bodyweight squats and you are not going to injure your back doing bodyweight squats. Definitely form is key. This is really bad informatio

> Yes, but these are bodyweight squats and you are not going to injure your back doing bodyweight squats. Definitely form is key. This is really bad information to be relaying. You have no idea what is the health profile of the people reading this advice, and what damage believing it might do. You can very easily hurt yourself with bodyweight exercises, especially if you're very out of shape.

treehau5 9y ago
Even more important than mobility in the back is knee stability. Also people think that injuries happen at the gym, this is very rarely the case. Usually you do the small amount of damage at the gym that then cascades later on due to your improper seating posture, your slouching, then bending over to lift something at home doing yardwork, then bam all of a sudden you are in the shower and your back locks up. In the case of improper squating without proper knee stability -- you won't notice a microscopic tear immediately, but it's very possible. You'll tweak something and say "hm, that felt weird." Then a week later you get out of bed to check on the kids, step on a lego and bam -- blown knee. Don't read pseudo-science lifter articles folks -- you can't rush into this. Do your stretches, and build your stabilizer muscles. Squatting builds your glutes, but you need stable hips and knees.
tomsthumb 9y ago
All fitness advice assumes some context. It doesn't make it bad advice, just contextual. Part of the difficulty with communicating this info over the internet is that you can't see people's mechanics nor do they often give you their full situation. E.g., telling a 400 pound person that squatting is good for them is not the advice which should be prioritized and doesn't really make sense compared to other approaches. Telling a random dude on the internet that he needs more volume to hit 2x bodyweight deadlift might make sense until you learn that he's 5'8" 115 pounds and needs to get out of caloric deficit. Additionally, the "form is key" part covers your point already. If you're doing it with proper form and you still get hurt then that's pretty weird, and not really on the parent.

treehau5 9y ago

Even more important than mobility in the back is knee stability. Also people think that injuries happen at the gym, this is very rarely the case. Usually you do the small amount of damage at the gym that then cascades later on due to your improper seating posture, your slouching, then bending over to lift something at home doing yardwork, then bam all of a sudden you are in the shower and your back locks up. In the case of improper squating without proper knee stability -- you won't notice a microscopic tear immediately, but it's very possible. You'll tweak something and say "hm, that felt weird." Then a week later you get out of bed to check on the kids, step on a lego and bam -- blown knee. Don't read pseudo-science lifter articles folks -- you can't rush into this. Do your stretches, and build your stabilizer muscles. Squatting builds your glutes, but you need stable hips and knees.

tomsthumb 9y ago

All fitness advice assumes some context. It doesn't make it bad advice, just contextual. Part of the difficulty with communicating this info over the internet is that you can't see people's mechanics nor do they often give you their full situation. E.g., telling a 400 pound person that squatting is good for them is not the advice which should be prioritized and doesn't really make sense compared to other approaches. Telling a random dude on the internet that he needs more volume to hit 2x bodyweight deadlift might make sense until you learn that he's 5'8" 115 pounds and needs to get out of caloric deficit. Additionally, the "form is key" part covers your point already. If you're doing it with proper form and you still get hurt then that's pretty weird, and not really on the parent.