Critiquing the 'Primal Movement' Narrative

you have to squat it's the king of lower body exercises why do you have to squat it's a primal movement it's a primal movement to squat down and take a shit it's not a primal movement to squat down with 100 kilos on your back, right? You think that's natural, you're fucking retarded. Something's wrong with you, right? If you think that's the case, then install a squat rack on your toilet. And every time you take a shit, squat down with 100 kilos on your back. Stop telling people these are normal natural movements and they have to do it if they really want to be strong and healthy, right? Because if you look at things like the squat, there is only one sport on earth where the squat is a specific physical preparation exercise and that's powerlifting. Okay. For all other sports, it's a very good tool to develop lower body strength to transition into your sport. Right. So, um, that's the thing, like our kind of thing is if you know enough about the body, you realize there's many roads to roam and you need to pick the training that you're going to get enjoyment out of because you're more likely to actually do it multiple times a week. You know, when I was in my twenties, I, again, I came from the camp where if you couldn't fix it with squats and fish oil, you're probably going to die. and I made everybody had to squat, you know, so God would roll in in a wheelchair and, you know, can't, can't, can't move his legs from the leg down. I'd be like, that's no excuse getting the squat. Right. I realized now, I realized now, like I was a real asshole. Like I love to squat. Not everybody likes that. And not everybody has the orthopedic profile to do it correctly. So there's no inherent reason to do that. If you can't squat, great. You got the hack squat, you got the leg pressure, you got split squats, you got step ups, you know, you got lunges, you got fucking booty blaster hip extension shit. You got a reverse hyper, you got back extension, you got all sorts of other things you can use. If you hate a movement or hate an exercise or hate a style, then don't fucking do it. Right. Do something you're going to love and you're going to be consistent at. And I think that's probably the best advice for most people. You know, I think that obviously I'm a, I'm a meathead at heart. I started lifting weights when I was eight. Everyone should probably lift, but everyone should also take care of the cardiovascular respiratory system and take care of the things that give them the energy to lift harder, faster, and better, which is take care of your mitochondria, get your stress down, take care of your lungs and your heart and your vascular system. And then yes, also resistance training. So you keep high quality of muscle and then understand that you should probably, you should probably lift in ranges that work every muscle fiber, meaning that yes, yes, you do still need to lift weights for your type one fibers. Yes, you need to lift for the type two and yes, you need to lift for the type two X, But then you have to keep that in context too, because we have to say if Mary Muffintop comes in, does she need to do single one rep max in the squat? Probably not. So we've got to say, okay, what's our range of where we can lift where you still get strong enough to stimulate those fibers, but not to a point where it becomes risky and dangerous with somebody who can't chew gum and walk at the same time. Right. So, I mean, I can go on for hours and bitch about this, but it's just because I've, like I said, I've come from the bro side first and I've, I've preached the dumb shit and the shit that doesn't make sense. And now that I've gotten, you know, more research based and textbook based, I realized like, man, like some of the stuff I used to have people doing was completely unnecessary. and there's no wonder I had a lot of client turnover, you know, because I was making them do things that they did not want to do and it was completely unnecessary to make them do that stuff. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. I think a lot of it as well, it's like people, when they start their journey in health and fitness at this point, it's almost like, okay, anything works as long as whoever's teaching it to them or whatever keeps them safe. So obviously like the first thing is the injury right Like you never want to go do something that just going to fuck you up And and then you like all right all movement is bad and now they can walk So like considering that whatever they do they ease into it and they do it correctly i think is really good