{"id":215,"date":"2019-10-21T02:04:46","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T02:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/68.183.153.237\/?p=215"},"modified":"2019-10-21T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T02:05:04","slug":"30-30-squat-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/21\/30-30-squat-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"30\/30 Squat Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I have always been active most of my life, playing recreational sports and exercising. As I age the more aches and pains seem to pop up. I can only assume it was from years of not wearing the right gear and not stretching! I am learning that the mobility and flexibility of my Legs, hips and ankles are terrible. One particular test I failed is the calf tightness test, where you place your foot 5″ from a wall and try to touch your knee to the wall without lifting your heel. Without that calf flexibility it means a host of issues stemming from increased load to other areas of my feet and ankles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Any kind of running can be brutal to your joints when your lower body is inflexible and tight. I believe a lot of my aches and pains are from that inflexibility and immobility. I have been watching\u00a0Tom Merrick’s\u00a0youtube<\/a>\u00a0channel for some time now and his content is all about becoming more mobile. He refers to a book, ‘Becoming a Supple Leopard’ by Dr. Kelly Starrett, which inspires some of his videos. I am looking to get the book as soon as possible.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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My goal for fitness is injury prevention, health longevity and functional strength. Without proper range of motion I will not have a foundation to stand on. I have learned that my squat position is totally incorrect, and I can’t believe I was loading up with weights, most likely making the issues worse.\u00a0<\/span>I will be halting the weighted squat for a while, and focusing on getting full range of motion in my squat, ‘ass to grass’ as they say.\u00a0<\/span>Right now I can only get to about a 90 degree angle from my shins, and this has to be a source of a lot of my issues. Also it is the reason I could never get good rotation on my windmills back in my bboy days.<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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I decided to go for the\u00a030 for 30 squat challenge<\/a>\u00a0designed by Ido Portal. 30 minute deep squats a day, for 30 days. Tom Merrick sited this for how he got his squat form on point, and I have read about a few others who were able to accomplish the same. This would be a huge accomplishment for me physically, and I hope it will be a great foundation to build off of moving forward.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decided I will be tackling Ido Portal’s 30 day 30 minute Squat challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larrybuffaloboy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}