ERF 007: Beauty in the Basics

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You scroll through the internet looking for the latest and greatest HIIT workout with your favorite bosu ball and cable machine.



You spend all your time searching for the coolest most unique workout you can find so you “don’t get bored”, yet you have yet to master a basic squat.



You have yet to master learning how to properly set your shoulder blades when you do a push up so you don’t get a paid in the front of your shoulder or your wrists.



In a world where everything has to be new and unique, finding the beauty in the basics is what I am bringing to the light.





Mastering the Basics

Whether you are just getting into exercising, or been here for a while, you have probably pulled out your phone and searched what exercises to do.



10 best leg exercies, exercises that burn the most fat, ways to build your chest, whatever the case may be.



You probably saw “squats are the best builder for your legs, bench press is the #1 upper body builder, deadlifts are great for the whole body!”.



You probably then thought “ yea yea squats and deadlifts jeez I’ve seen these everywhere, what else is there, what other exercises can I do?”



That is where I am coming in to strike a conversation.



There is a reason you have seen that squats are the best for your legs, because squats are generally the best for your legs.



Obviously with some caveat, and there are plenty of unique variations that come into place from person to person.



But in some way shape or form, a squat pattern should be a staple in your training, because you will get exceptional results from them, *if performed correctly.



I preface that because that is what I want to talk about.



Instead of people talking the time to truly master a squat pattern, properly bracing your core, externally rotating your hips, activating your glutes, ripping the ground apart with your feet/knees/hips, having your knees track over your toes, and sitting down and back to complete the squat, they just look for a new exercise to do every week.



Now if you are reading this you may have been like, “wtf is that english?”, or you may have been like “I don't really care about those things I just wanna be in shape and do it correctly”.



And while I understand both sides, I urge you to care.



I urge you to want to learn these movements, to do them over and over and over again to master them.



To spend time learning how your body moves in space when you perform the exercise.



Do you feel your knees cave in? Is your core braced? How does your low back feel when you perform the exercise?



All of these things will be found out over time from reps and reps and reps.



But, if you do not do the reps because you keep looking for new exercise after new exercise every time you do a workout, you will not learn these things.



You will not reap the benefits from the exercise because you cannot perform it correctly.



That “best exercise” will lead to just okay results because you have put in the reps to master it to see the best results possible.



There is a reason these basic movement pattern exercies, squats, lunges, deadlifts, overhead presses, etc, have been around for a while.



They work.



Period.



But if you spend every workout looking for new things to do because you are “bored”, then you will not learn anything about the movement nor your body, and you will be a cat chasing its tail.



I challenge you to learn the movements.



Learn what I was speaking on earlier, how to brace your core for a squat, how to set your shoulder blades in the right position for a chest press,