I started doing squatting and deadlifts - very carefully and with very light weight - about five years ago. There seemed to be many potential upsides, and doing

I started doing squatting and deadlifts - very carefully and with very light weight - about five years ago. There seemed to be many potential upsides, and doing it with much care about my form and going too heavy, I found it's helped me in many ways. In the last year, I've been doing Bodypump classes at my local gym. There's a good amount of squatting and lunges in this, and with good music and fun instructors. If you're looking to try it out and have this at your local gym, try it out; it's a good hour-long class that will get you sweating, and you can set your difficulty level to whatever you want, light to heavy weights. The music is pretty catchy, too! Here's the latest playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8gGCsYhXV4RSJ_kJft_csg-jupYHbZ4w http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8gGCsYhXV4RSJ_kJft_cs... P.S. The author of the piece said start squatting at the beginning and you'll be hurting by the time you finish reading. Thanks to my squats on my own and in classes, I was in a squat for the whole article and for the minutes it took to tap out this message on my phone. Squatting is good and can be learned!