13. Resting Squat
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The resting squat is one of the most basic movement patterns of the mankind which most people took for granted since the invention of stool and chair.
Squat doesn’t only strengthen your lower body skeleton and muscles while you trained by repetition, it also improves your balance, mobility, blood circulation and digestive system when you squat statically.
Some of us might not even able to do a flat foot squat — also known as the Asian Squat.
(PS: I’m not sure why people gave it that name. Probably Asians can do it better.)
It was supposed to be our most natural resting posture. Kids do it often, anything anywhere every day. Unfortunately, we don’t.
Here's what you can do if you can't perform an Asian squat:
- Watch this resting squat tutorial and slowly perfecting the resting squat posture. It might take some time.
- Follow this squat routine by Ido Portal to further improve your squatting mobility.
- Make it a habit of squatting statically for at least 5 to 30 minutes a day.
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Footnotes
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Mate some advice - I wouldn't be sending any more SBD to randow
Unless you understand what you are doing.
Thanks for the advice @thomasfarley I wasn’t sure what I was doing. Just testing different things out.
No problem!!
Haha! Yeah, I saw this a few years back and also wondered why they called it that. I think it's also been referred to as the Third world squat.
Keep up the flexibility!
True. I think it's not just about flexibility. It also has to do with muscle memory I guess.
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AKA the "third world squat." It's common in African, Russia and other regions as well. In North American, once most people enter school, our tendons get shorter from all the sitting and we lose our flexibility so we can't do it anymore.