this comment was under an old kotaku article about Japanese delinquents so no link for you because bruh its from 2012
The anatomical difference is your body gets good at something if you do it your whole life.
Plasticity isn't real, it can't hurt you. Everything is preordained by genetics. Its in the Bible.
Heels on ground, comrade found. Heels in sky, WESTERN SPY
-ancient slavic proverb
serious answer:
i asked a slav co-worker once about that
he just said practice basicallyNo really. (also, I'm terrible at squatting because I don't practice. Always on my tippy toes)
This is true, because my back is fucked I have to squat every time I pick something up off of the ground. Now I can do it easily lol.
I started doing the heels down squat after I hurt some foot bones and have a hard time kneeling to work on equipment, and now I can do it pretty easily, though not for hours like a true comrade. I started this older than 30, so I’m pretty confident it’s learnable.
After squatting for like 15 minutes my legs start to get unbearably sore and numb and I have to get up. It appears I'm not like most asian people.
The true sign of complete westernization is to have terrible hip and leg mobility
It's a height and leg anatomy thing, not a race thing. Most tall people with long legs can't squat "ass to grass" under load without either flexing their lower back, stressing their ankles, or both.
I'm 185cm/6'1 with short legs and while I can squat ass to grass without lifting my heels and rest there for a long period of time, I avoid doing it on weighted/single leg squats as I can feel my lower back enter a compromised position if I squat too low. I just focus on breaking parallel and bracing my core properly when I exercise.
Don't know why these weirdos always have to make it a race thing, I'm pretty sure there are plenty of tall Asian dudes that find squatting past a certain point awkward
Don’t know why these weirdos always have to make it a race thing
Because we have to rank everyone in order of greatness. Everything is a competition. Someone must be declared The Best, so that they can produce the most children and create an army of Super Squatters who will rule over the Earth in a Utopian 1000 Year Riech.
Literally it's just doing it frequently enough. When I lived in Japan instead if sitting on the ground you'd squat to "sit" outside during a school assembly and most students had been doing that their entire life so they were used to it but I was struggling to just not lose it after a bit.
Anyone can squat if they just commit to it and do daily stretches. I recommend it
I've gotten so much better at squatting over the past year of "practicing" (seems a weird way to put such a normal activity). I feel like I unlocked a super power. It's great. My hips are flexible now in ways they never were before and I've always been fairly active in general.
Yeah turns out if you don't ruin your core muscles with chairs your entire life you can do amazing thibgs
Slava libs will cite this as ultimate proof that the Russians truly are part of the asiatic hordes.
Just tuck your knees into your armpits what
also keep your feet flat idgi
The thing is, people here in the west basically never squat, we just pretty much design everything around never doing it. So the muscles never get stretched and we lose the ability to squat at all. You need a certain amount of ankle mobility to even touch your heels to the ground in a squat.
yeah i cant keep my feet flat throughout the exercise movement, but when you get below 90° you just... nestle your knees in and roll back on your feet a bit?
that said, I can't do a single pullup these days, surely this isn't an indicator of lifestyle and is instead directly attributable to my racial makeup
In my experience as a very sedentary whitey, that just doesn't work. I'd fall on my back if I tried resting in a deep squat.
Pull-ups are hard though, most adults can't do even one. Regardless of where in the world you are. The muscles used are ones most people don't need to use often, and lifting 100-200 pounds can be tough even with muscles you do use often.
It's literally just a method people use to avoid dirtying their shiny white tracksuit on the street.
Turns out I am a slav after all. Squatting is a comfortable rest position for me at this point
Only asians can squat, science says this. Trust me bro.
LOL wait for the first time you have to use a squat toilet. It is murderously uncomfortable.
I will take a taxi to the lobby of a five star hotel with a sit-down toilet to avoid using a squattie.
I squat on top of regular toilets because I find it so much more comfortable and easier to shit
https://image.shutterstock.com/image-vector/no-permit-toilet-signs-600w-1398988412.jpg
Your cell phone and your keys don't drop out of your pocket onto the slimy gross floor? You don't find they use the "but your butt doesn't touch the seat" as an excuse to not clean the bathroom regularly?
What is this, Reddit? There's plenty of filthy toilets here in the West. The type of toilet being used has no bearing.
As a man who has had to use more squat toilets than I would ever care to repeat, I can confirm that "but your butt doesn't touch the seat" is used as an excuse to keep lax toilet cleanliness. I'll take the worst any truck stop could offer over some of the ones I've been in. Yuck.
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