Assessing & Improving Squat Limitations
by Team MountainDog on October 6, 2025The conventional barbell squat, to me, will always be a fantastic movement for overall leg development, and should be done with as much range of motion as possible for optimal growth. But, sometimes range of motion can be limited by multiple factors:
Structural limitations: including things like the position of the femur inside of the acetabulum as well as the proportional length of the femur, tibia and torso
Muscular limitations: range of motion can be limited by muscles that are tight and need to be lengthened through more conventional flexibility and mobility techniques, as well as muscles that are tight and overactive due to weakness and/or instability as your central nervous system’s way of protecting you from injury in the more demanding parts of a movement
The following video that I did on a client of mine in real time who has struggled with getting a good squat depth for quite a while, and show how you might go about evaluating and addressing each of the above limitations.
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