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Q&A Episode - Passing the Opt-In, Heat Exhaustion, and Rip Retiring Starting Strength Radio #168

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Do You Squat Correctly Every Single Time?

The body works as a system. Just because you can tease out origin, insertion and contraction does not mean that that's the way the muscle belly functions. The only time the rotator cuff acts to externally rotate the shoulder is in the physical therapists office with a band. Train that group of muscles in their anatomically normal function. If your knees get tender when youre squatting, you're squatting incorrectly. We overused injuries happen when you do things like sets of 20, which we don't do. We do sets of five. You practise doing the movement correctly every single time. Correctly is defined as the most muscle mass over the longest effective range of motion. Not everybody

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