Functional Patterns Analysis: The Back Squat Dilemma

[@thegarybains]

issue with analysis is that everyone you show doing squats is doing it wrong! its like if I made video of unilateral movements being useless but only showed people doing joel seedmans unilateral work and said FP doesnt work

[@selda2528]

to me, the compression is a bonus... the issue is when u only squat and dont know other methods. also. compression and decompression needs to be combined, not just one. u need the both of em

[@selda2528]

strengthen the aria. but also decompress it..... no decompression and not even a way to rotate the compression out is the real issue, alongside ignoring its bad effects on making shity posture worse

[@tonyneillaw]

But you will always compress the same vertebrae more than others. Not good.

[@slings7149]

​@@selda2528wrong. Watch the video before making stupid comments

[@JustifiedRidiculousOly]

@@slings7149 take a physiology class and get a degree in sports medicine before believing everything on the internet.

[@jawzzy3]

lol had to put a dig on Layne Norton in there 😂

[@juancarlosrobalinoalarcon3802]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼FP🙏🏽🌎🙏🏽🔥💯🤝🏽

[@SamuraiJack2023]

What is the name of this music? ❤❤

[@thebodykeepsthescore2828]

Darude-sandstorm

[@duck_gainz_m8]

Ok, your program looks good, but how does one get strong, with all this jumping and twisting. Let's say an NFL linebacker, if he only did these exercises, he would be squased on the field.... Why not do both?

[@adamc2208]

I feel like FP is actually extremely valuable to people like myself who have struggled with persistent pain and issues and other methods haven't worked. There is something very healing about the limited, steady approach, based on rebuilding the most basic aspects of your movement. I feel as though their marketing sometimes leans too much toward trying to present themselves as the be-all-end-all of training, including high level performance training. The reality is most high level athletes already have good movement capability and they need extra input for performance, they need weight, force and overload. Most high level performance coaches are actually aware of much of what FP is saying and they generally don't have field athletes etc doing squat bench and deadlift very often. Where FP is valuable is for the untalented, unwashed masses, who see all these people running on instagram and think that's what we need to be doing. Many of us need to learn to crawl first. As for weights and bodybuilding most people just want to look good and feel strong, they don't really give a fuck about how athletic they are. It seems like athletic training has never involved more than necessary of these kind of lifts. Strength sports are obviously a different story. Its just another fitness industry BS, everyone talking past each other about slightly different things - don't even get me started on how everyone uses examples of high level athletes as why their method is successful. Like you mean to tell me that this 6'3" 220lbs teenager who can run a 40 yard dash in like 4.7 seconds got this way because of the way he trained in the gym 4 days a week? Lets get serious that kid would have been a god no matter what he did. Sorry long comment, rant over hahahaha

[@duck_gainz_m8]

@@adamc2208 yeah FP looks cool and healthy but those guys are mostly pencilnecks. I do both. Lift and part FP, and little crawling and floor stuff

[@healthcoachjoff]

Sorry, but I am unconvinced by this video that barbell squats are detrimental towards spinal health.... if you are claiming that barbell squats at a certain weight threshold CAUSES scoliosis, please provide the scientific evidence and point me to the study (or studies) that say so

[@anklebreaka03]

Have you ever thought that maybe asymmetries aren't the worst thing in the world? Maybe they're potentially useful for our bodies in certain instances? Maybe having one side of your body as being dominant isn't the worst thing. You do realize almost all of us are dominant with 1 hand or foot over the other, and this is for functionality. Both hands can't at the same time be the one to carry the sword and the shield, and one SHOULD be better at the task than the other. functionality does not equal symmetry, which seems to be some sort of dogma you guys religiously follow. Also compression isn't bad for the spine as long as you also decompress and twist, another dogmatic approach you take. The spine flexes, extends, and rotates. Attempting to deny an entire aspect of the spines functionality and refusing to train it is sheer stupidity. You focus too much on rotation and too little on flexion and extension, whereas people that only squat focus too much on flexion/extension. You can barely get in a deep squat and don't see it as something functional when it's literally the most functional human movement pattern we've developed. You need to take a new look at your approach. You have many great aspects to your training program, but you're also missing so much and limiting your physical potential in my opinion.

[@tonyneillaw]

Given how a lot of people have scoliosis of the spine as an asymmetry, not to mention hyper kyphosis etc. asymmetry is harmful when lifting heavy and bi-laterally.

[@ayjie6829]

even the mildest of scoliosis can cause much pain, trust me i know

[@mainsourcery]

Asymmetries are problematic when it comes to gait/throwing mechanics & having to adapt to stressors in your environment. That’s what FP addresses, and they have tons of results to showcase that & why barbell back squats are garbage training & have virtually no utility for reality.

[@JustifiedRidiculousOly]

@@mainsourcery go watch a video on olympic weightlifters. Look at olympic and pro-athletes. Maybe FP is the standard for the general public but not for the athlete. That being said, every module is good. There's no alpha and omega of workouts. That's just egotistical talk of the FP community.

[@mainsourcery]

@@JustifiedRidiculousOly can you please repeat the part where Olympic lifting aligns with the mechanisms of gait & how? 🧐🧐 There is no value in watching Olympic weightlifters when the physics of those exercises have no translation to 3-dimensional human movement. What metrics do you use to determine that squats “work” for pro athletes? Where are THOSE results, as in before/afters of people’s structural integrity & biomechanics? They can’t even get Zion Williamson back on the basketball court or Kawhi out of street clothes. Chris Paul can’t stay active in the playoffs. And with the results of FP working on the general public & people with really bad conditions, what makes you think FP can’t be scaled up & wouldn’t work on a pro athlete?

[@seekingthevalue1016]

No scientific evidence. I've been doing squats for 20 years and everything is okay.

[@mainsourcery]

Yea..barbell back squats are garbage exercise & just cause or inflame problems. A squat without a longitudinal load on your spine has utility, but nowhere near as much as training gait/throwing mechanics with precision. #FPisthestandard

[@shaftofwisdom]

just add 100 reverse hypers, nordic leg curls, tib raises. 1 minute dead hang, inversion table, an ice bath and 30 minutes of mobility plus massage gun before and after you squat and go to for manual therapy and to the chiro at least 3 times a week bro. no excuses not to squat heavy man. squats milks and oats. rice and beef and heavy deadlift, come on man up, make america strong again, remember son nobody will mess with a 500 lb below paralell squatter.

[@tonyneillaw]

They're already messing with themselves, no need to add further injury. Just make sure when ya boy Biden squats, he has his diaper fully in-place. wouldn't want any more accidents.

[@GrueneVanilleWaffel]

bruh so you "TRAIN" to go to the doctor afterwards ?

[@timetravellist1930]

Let see your 500lb squatter mess with Johnny Eblen