Doctors and physical therapists often say that the deep Asian squat is bad for your knees. In this video, you'll learn where this bad for your knees mythology comes from. You'll learn why westerners often believe the slav squat is bad for your knees. And you'll learn how to protect your knees when doing a deep primal squat.

Pain relief, confidence, and better athletic performance can all come from correcting bad posture. Learn how to hold your body more efficiently with functional training.

Table of Contents

• What are the Mental and Emotional Effects of Bad Posture?
• What Are the Physical Effects of Bad Posture?
• Good Sitting Posture
• Good Standing Posture
• Good Athletic Posture
• Bad Standing Posture
• Does Bad Posture Really Matter?
• What Causes Bad Posture?
  • Common Activities that Lead to Bad Posture
• How to Fix Bad Posture with Functional Training
  • Hunchback Posture
  • Anterior Pelvic Tilt
• 4 Keys for Good Posture

What Are the Mental and Emotional Effects of Bad Posture?

Some of the clearest effects of poor posture are related to mental health. For many...

If you have stiff hamstrings, you probably can't touch your toes. To get more flexible to touch your toes, you need to strengthen your hip flexors and learn how to stretch your hamstrings properly. This video will show you how to stretch to touch your toes.

If you or someone you know has trouble walking upstairs because of pain and/or weakness, make sure to watch this video. You'll learn some simple ways to build leg strength so you can walk upstairs without pain. You'll learn what proper walking upstairs looks like. You'll also learn one simple exercise to improve knee strength and flexibility so you can walk upstairs without knee or hip pain.

If you want to do a deep squat like the Slav Squat / Asian Squat / Primal Squat, you need to have flexible and strong knees. You need full knee range of motion. In this video, you'll learn how to strengthen your knees so you can do the Primal Slav Asian Hindu Squat without pain!

Learn how to stretch tight hip flexors properly. You'll learn how to do a standing psoas stretch and a kneeling psoas stretch. You'll also learn how to release your psoas and iliacus with flexibility exercises that also build strength. If your psoas and iliacus need release, these hip flexor exercises will help you!

If you get tension in your shoulders from working at a computer all day, this video will help you. Tight shoulders don't just come from working too much. Tight shoulders also come from underusing your shoulder muscles. If you learn to do simple exercises to keep your shoulder muscles happy, you'll get reduced shoulder tension, and you'll relieve shoulder pain!

Ankle mobility is important to be able to do the Asian Squat (Primal Squat, Slav Squat, Resting Squat, Hindu Squat). If you can't get your heels to the floor because of stiff ankles, the ankle flexibility exercises in this video will help you. You'll also learn ankle strengthening exercises that will improve your deep Asian squat.

In this video you'll learn the best sleeping positions if you have hunchback posture. These hunchback posture correction tips will prevent your posture from getting worse and will help you fix your posture while you sleep. You'll also learn a simple hunhcback posture tip to help you while reading in bed!

Shane Dowd of GotROM.com is the co-creator of the FAI Fix program. He and Matt sit down to chat about how to improve flexibility, meditation, hip impingement, and their long term goals for fitness as they age.