Neutral head. Shoulders back. Ass to ankles. Strong and straight lumbar. Knees in line but not past toes. Weight completely on the heels.
He can’t speak well, he falls when he runs, he drools, he even likes to try to eat dirt sometimes, but that little dude can squat like a pro. My 2 year old as well. Nobody warned me, when I became a parent, that I’d have to come to grips with the horrible truth that as a lifter I would spend countless hours trying to master a technique that I was dope at when I was a baby.
His chest game is weak as balls. He can atlas-stone-load a gallon of milk into the fridge with pretty good form though. I do a lot of calisthenics in the living room on non-gym days and he’s started trying to do push-ups with me so we’ll get there.
Haha reminds me of those articles about squatting that’d have a toddler in the squat position.
I’d always think if I had legs half the length of my body and my head as the heaviest bit of me, I’d squat like that too but instead I have ankles that consider blowing up before they consider flexing haha
In all seriousness, it’s unrealistic for us to squat like toddlers due to this exact circumstance - the heaviness of the head, not to mention the insane flexibility and the fact that not all bones have fused.
Actual picture of my kid looking like a supervisor who has just asked the pretty intern to come “evaluate her work performance” but is actually pouring two glasses of wine when said intern walks in his office:
Do kids actually squat with neutral spines? My observation of both the mythical kid squats and the third world squat is that they simply aren’t weighted and so there is no problem if the spine goes into flexion.
Have a pull up bar? My 2 1/2 year old daughter insists I put her up on it when im working out. She was able to free hang on it for about 4 seconds before she was 2 years old.
didnt realize this thread was still alive - yes, i notice when he’s squatting his spine is neutral. the third world squat - which i’ve seen in third world countries - is not with a neutral spine, it’s with an extremely rounded spine and them resting their armpits on their knees, essentially. But toddlers are crazy flexible, and their heads are super heavy, so they’re kind of set up for success here. chilling with rounded spines is something we develop over time with bad posture and sitting down all the time, i think humans are born to stand upright and bend/squat with proper form, but especially in the western world, we have largely lost that ability.
no, but now i want to get one. pullups are my jam and my son loves doing pushups when i workout in the living room.
