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Originally Posted by blankall
The natural instinct is to treat the squat like a leg press. People have their feet underneath their hips and then just bend their knees. Then they lower their torso at the end to make the bar go lower.
As you say, the squat is initiated in the hips and engages the posterior chain.
I'd definitely recommend getting a good trainer before seriously getting into working out. That excludes most trainers who work at gyms.
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Seems like only a fraction of trainers know much if anything, I've known several kinesiology students/trainers and none of them had any idea on the subject. Same with deadlifts, benchpress, injuries and impingement.
The information is fairly concise at this point in time but also hard to find as well. There should be charts by all the workout areas on the basic motions of each exercise and the potential injuries. The amount of people that benchpress properly is near 4-5%, squats even less. I remember seeing one guy the entire year actually squatting properly, it's so vastly misunderstood for such a simple movement. Deadlifts maybe even worse, in my life I've seen maybe 3 or 4 people deadlifting properly in person.