In 8 hours, there'll be a very simple post that I'll put up, that can help others comprehend squatting with legs better. It involves an unbreakable plastic bottle, and a piece of paper. Very simple, and something I've found effective in teaching how to use legs when squatting.
Why's squatting with quads important? In my week here in China, I've seen so many squats, which would've been impossible to save if they kept their weight on the heels. They would drive back up and accidentally go backwards on the heels and get stuck. These Chinese guys have so much awareness of their bodies, they saved it, by pushing their knees forward back into place, and bam! It shoots right up.
If this pops up on some weightlifter's feed, understand that the fitness world have a very different way of squatting, where they are taught to squat on the heels. I'm trying to show them how weightlifters squat, and still have good knees. I'll try recording a video of one of the "old geezers" that looked blazing fast in his snatches and squats. I didn't record him before, because my jaw dropped at how fast he moved.
In this series of pictures, I show the stretches the Chinese team use to prepare their athletes before training. They do these stretches before, during, and sometimes after training as well.
They don't care about static stretching supposedly not reducing incidences of injury. They are strong believers that proof and evidence, is far more important than research. They've had athletes who were lazy to stretch, get injured often enough, that when they forced all athletes to stretch beforehand, injuries dropped. That's enough evidence for them to believe the research is flawed or incomplete.
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