Why & How To Do A Goblet Squat After 60

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So what are goblet squat and how to do a goblet squat after 60? 

Goblet squats are those squats where you can go right down onto your haunches. Now, if you've traveled into the Asian countries, they do this so well, because they don't have toilets like we do where we sit.

They actually squat. And they can squat there for hours and cook and clean. When they go to the toilet, they squat again. They do lots of squatting.

In our westernised countries, we don't squat. So I always encourage people to try and get to that place where they can take those hips right down to the floor and start to get down quite low.

Unfortunately, many people can't do this because of knee pain. So then we're gonna hold onto something supportive and we're gonna progress our way down there. But if you can, you're gonna try and come right down to the floor, keep up that chest.

You can even have a weight. So your idea when you're down there is trying to hold that chest up nice and high. And if you wanna open up those hips, it's a great hip opener as well.

You can do it without a weight and you can just push those elbows out to open up those hips a bit more. But you can also be going down and up. Now, normally those feet will be slightly turned out.

They don't need to be, but it's wherever your feet positioning is where you'd normally be if you stop to do ablutions on a walk or a hike or a camping ground and there's no toilets. However your feet sit there is how your feet would sit. And we can do that with a weight pushing the ground away from our heels and toes as we come up, but not putting the weight onto those, pushing the weight into the heels.

We're coming straight down, coming straight up. This can be a really powerful move to do trying to keep that chest up and pushing up through the heels. Now, if you can't do that, oh, the other thing to remember as well, you don't wanna round out that back.

So you don't wanna be down here. You wanna keep that back up and nice and straight. Now, if you can't do a goblet squat and you want to get into a goblet squat, it can be great for people with sore knees.

But for many of you, and this was the case with me about probably two months ago, my knee was going out of place whenever I did a low squat. So I had to avoid it. But if you can, you can hold onto something stable in the front of you.

And we're gonna have a bit of a look at how you can do a goblet squat if you're not quite up to doing it as a freestyle one.

Let's have a look. There's two ways we can progress along when we can't do a freestanding goblet squat.

We can have a pole in front of us and we can be going down with a pole. That pole can help us to come up. 

Alternatively, if we're really not at that place, as my knees weren't a short while ago, you can be holding onto a rail, coming down nice and low, still keeping that back straight, pushing up through the heels and come back up again.

That's, how to do a goblet squat after 60, let me know how that works for you. I'd love to know how you go with that goblet squat.