Mobility tips and tricks for you to help improve your deep squat

Deep squatting is a skill that we develop between crawling and walking. If we continue to deep squat throughout our life we never loose the skill. But for many of us, at some point in our lives we lose this skill and it becomes much harder to get back at an older age. Hopefully that doesn’t stop you from trying, because deep squatting is incredibly important for the life and longevity of your body!

Because this is a blog post and not a one-on-one appointment, I am going to give exercises and stretches for the most common areas that people are restricted and where it is preventing them from doing a deep squat. I recommend trying them all and picking the few that you find most difficult.

Deep squatting requires good mobility in your ankles, knees and hips. Here are some stretches you can do to help improve your deep squat:

Ankles

If you are finding that your feet are really restricted, check out the foot flow I created. If you are finding that your ankles are really restricted, check out the ankle mobility flow that I created.

Knees

Hips and Low Back

Thoracic Mobility

Deep Squat Progressions

For more information check out my Deep Squat Flow on YouTube.

Remember if you can not currently do a deep squat, that’s okay! The more you work on it the easier it will get, trust me! A good goal to aim for is to do a deep squat for a total of 5 minutes per day. This can be done at once or spread out throughout the day. You will notice the improvements in you hips, knees, ankles.