- Asian squats, they've been getting very popular
on YouTube, I've been watching a number of videos on it,
'cause I looked at it, and I thought,
oh, I need to learn a little bit about this.
And actually one of our workers, Mike,
has been using this technique and had great success
improving his hip. - Helping his hip.
- Yes, hip mobilization.
But we're gonna show you and talk about,
there's four specific instances
where you must stop doing this
if you don't wanna hurt yourself, we'll get right to it.
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All right, so we're gonna talk about the Asian squat.
And it's just been brought to our attention
that this is very similar or the same as the Slavic squat,
which is new to me too.
But, either way, this position right here
is what we're looking at.
We've got, you know, end range, knee flexion,
a lot of flexion in the back and then the hips.
That back, we wanna keep it straight.
The heels should be down on the ground,
and evidently you want the heels flat.
And if you're good at this, you can feel comfortable
like this for quite a long time, minutes or whatever.
But you can use something like this,
they recommend, to hold so that you can get your heels flat.
You can hold it like this, so you have weight
to counterbalance it.
You may wanna put something on your heels.
Now I'm going through some of the details on this,
but that's all I'm gonna do.
It doesn't matter where you're doing this,
what phase you're in, if you've been doing it for years.
If you feel one of these symptoms, you need to stop.
And it's as simple as this.
If you do this and you start to feel sharp pain in your back
or anywhere in your buttock, then you need to stop.
Your body's telling you- - Stop immediately.
- Yeah, don't think, well, I'm gonna get through it,
stretch it out, and by the time I'm done
in another five minutes, it'll get better.
Don't take that risk.
- Also, Brad, I would say, if you have osteoporosis
or osteopenia, I would not do this.
- So in other words, weak bones.
Typically it's older people with that.
Something you probably are aware of.
- A lot of females. - Yep, exactly.
The next thing, and this is a big red flag,
if you are doing this and all of a sudden you start to feel
numb- - Symptoms down the leg.
- Yep, so symptoms could be numbness, tingling,
burning, a sensation of cold water,
anything going down the leg, that's a big red flag.
You need to stop doing it.
- Possible disc problem.
- Yeah. Very good possibility of a herniated disc.
And that's just gonna make it worse,
because it pushes the disc in a direction it does not
(popping) or should not go.
(Bob chuckling)
What was so funny about that?
- Well, you slipped a word in there.
- What did I say?
And the next scenario you really want to watch out for is,
let's say you're doing your squat, your Asian squat-
- And it feels fine. - It feels fine,
everything's going good.
You may be here for a few minutes, and then you get up,
and, then once you get up, you start to feel
like it's hard to get up.
- A catch. - A catch,
maybe pain in the back,
or, even over the next 5 to 10 minutes,
you start to feel pain or numbness.
- Or over the next couple hours.
- Yes, and, yeah, I was gonna go right into that.
It may be the next few minutes or over the next 24 hours.
If something happens as a result of doing that
over the next 24 hours, back pain or pain down the leg,
that's gonna be a red flag.
- Stop.
- Oh, is that stop?
- Yep. - Okay. There you go.
You're gonna stop because you do not wanna get a disc injury
as a result of that, 'cause that is a position
which can irritate a bulging disc.
- You've been warn.
- Yes, other than that, go ahead.
Asian squat all you want, mobilize the knees
and back and hip. - Have fun.
- Stretch things out all you want.
Have fun with your squatting and be careful.
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