One of the most fundamental components of human movement is squatting. If you go back in history people would squat to work, to have babies and to go to the bathroom. Now we sit in chairs to work, lie in beds to have babies and sit on toilets to use the bathroom. The problem with us not squatting is that we do not utilize our pelvic floor in the proper position. Pelvic floor dysfunction is talked about quite frequently these days and a lot of it is due to the fact we just don’t squat any more. Remember that a proper squat involves having your buttocks a couple of inches off the floor and holding it while you breathe properly.

I always tell my clients and athletes that you are essentially two humans a right side and a left side and we have to make them get along. The human body is not symmetrical not even close actually, we are designed in a way in which the right side of our body will always win. We weren’t designed to be perfect but rather imperfect.

The most misunderstood topic in the fitness industry is always the core. We see these fancy charts and pretty pictures in the anatomy books highlighting certain areas of the stomach and everything looks symmetrical and perfect. Unfortunately we are far from symmetrical and we operate far from perfect especially when it comes to your core function.