Why aren’t you Squatting?

There are many different exercises to choose from when designing a workout routine.  Theses choices can make your head spin no matter the experience you have putting workouts together.  Even though these choices can be difficult at times, one choice should be a no brainer.  You need to squat.

 Now this doesn’t mean you have to load the bar up with a great deal of weight or even use a bar at all.  You just need to perform some type of squat movement with all your workouts.  A squat is one of the best exercises you can use.  So why aren’t you squatting? 

 Most people don’t squat for 4 reasons.

1. They don’t know how to squat properly – this leads to pain while performing the movement
2. They have been told by so called experts that the squat is bad for your knees or back or what ever – WRONG
3. They are injured and can’t perform a squat – Justified
4. They don’t know any better – Now you do

 Looking at the reasons why most don’t include squats in their workouts, do any of these sound familiar?  Now, only one of the previously listed reasons is justified, injury.  Even though not performing squats do to injury is justified, I would bet that most of these so called injuries are mental or just plain laziness. 

 Now for the other 3 reasons, they are just excuses.  You have the world at your finger tips to answer any question you want answer it just might take some work to find it.  So if you didn’t know that squats are good for you now you do and as far as form well you will have good examples of how to learn the squat in the near future. 

To Your Success,

Blaine