 Ladies and gentlemen silent Mike back with another video today. We're going to be talking about squatting with different leverages Different height, and we got my man-dime friend here fast Vingy's Kai if any of you have tuned in to twitch I do stream multiple times a week silent Mike on twitch fast Vingy's Kai here is one of my main teammates on Call of Duty Apex fortnight whatever we're playing And Kyle is a professional baseball player drafted in the third round to the Rangers a pitcher And he is six five He's currently in the rehab process. He messed up his shoulder had a couple surgeries pretty bad And so he may go play baseball again. He may not but he also just loves training So him and I have been friends for a couple years now But we've never trained together and he wants to really get more serious about a strength conditioning for life And potentially coming back in the sport And so I didn't know what to think coming down. I was like all right I've worked with a lot of pro athletes mostly football players some baseball a lot of basketball just because that's my background and Some rugby some of them have been tall. I've worked with multiple basketball players over six foot But a lot of them although they're very coordinated and move really well They just tend not to lift as good because they don't put the hours into that even though their body control Their motor patterns their mind muscle connection is really really good being high-level collegiate or professional athletes often They're just not taught proper squat mechanics and they don't practice them enough So they move poorly plus Although I think that's tall people can clearly squat really well and there's examples across the board But a couple of my personal examples are Casey Johnson daddy long legs an old training partner from super training of mine Who's six four six five and then storm cloud Dan store? And yellow fat Dan for most of you is also six four six five high-level athlete Both have squatted, you know six hundred and eight hundred pounds Very very strong guys and move really really well for being that tall and I was actually pleasantly surprised Kyle kind of came to me saying hey man help me out with my squat I hurt my back a couple times doing some trap bar deadlifts with a You know a loosey-goosey who gives a shit strength coach. Could you help me out with my form and I was present pleasantly surprised his Squat forms actually really really good. I had him on the safety squat bar just to kind of save his shoulder although he's cleared to move that shoulder throw and Progress in the gym how he likes. I just figured look if you ever do want to play baseball again There's no reason to wrench under a straight barbell no reason to put that torque on the shoulder The biggest things with a taller person is often their legs are longer So we have to find a way to hit depth with getting kind of our femurs out of the way And what most people automatically go to is oh well then also squat super super super wide You know kind of like a geared powerlifter and kick my knees way out But also issue is when you're really really tall often not always But often we don't have that mobility in our hips either So to go really wide stance and still get our knee over our midfoot or over our second toe at the bottom of the squat It's just not possible. We're just doing kind of a side-by-side here with my dumpy lumpy self And honestly when you see Kyle in the squat next to me He moves very similar to me one thing that may help Kyle is kind of loosened up the ankles the calves a little bit Because his heels do move slightly when he squats But the general cues and form are going to be the same kind of break at the knees and the hips Put the barbell where it doesn't hurt if you're a powerlifter eventually We'll try to go to a low bar position But to start it doesn't really matter safety squat bar is great for a bunch of beginners Just because you don't have to worry about where the barbell is and we're just trying to get general length Legs stimulus and growth and strength and move some weight around in the gym So then it can hopefully help you create more power on the you know track court baseball diamond Whatever it is that you play So again Kyle's ankles kind of internally rotate a little bit there He loses a little bit of stability in the ankle and the knee so we could use some small heels Or we'll just work on that ankle over time But overall his forms really good one thing that something is he's not ever been taught or used to is how to breathe embrace So next time I work with them will probably throw a belt on there We'll throw a belt on there nice and loose actually probably a finger Loose so you could shove a whole hand in there and then teach them how to breathe embrace into that belt I gave them some cues on this day how to breathe embrace But sometimes having an external cue or an external tool that you can really feel the belt pushing against yourself And you can mentally tell yourself to breathe into that belt will help in the long run and that'll obviously keep his back safe And allow him to lift more Weights over time. 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