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Everyone can, all toddlers do it. They don't bend over to pick things up, they squat down. Having long tibia and short femurs help getting the angle right, but
by huffmsa 9y ago
Everyone can, all toddlers do it. They don't bend over to pick things up, they squat down.
Having long tibia and short femurs help getting the angle right, but that's really only important for olympic weightlifting (smaller angles to change => faster transitions between the pull and the catch).
tl; dr - most of us westerners are fat and lazy and could do the 3rd world squat if we didn't prefer chairs.
- skookum 9y ago> Everyone can, all toddlers do it. That's faulty logic. Toddlers' bones and cartilage aren't fully developed and as a result their skeletal system is more pliable. They have more bones than an adult (270 vs. 206 per wikipedia) with areas of cartilage in between that allow for flexibility which diminishes when the maturing bones fuse in place.