I think everyone needs to always be working on it. I always have something I won't to improve on and squatting is not really a big thing for me (as far as a "focus").

I don't know anything about that sticking the toes up idea. My only thing is it looks a bit dangerous what you are doing right now!

I figured it was westside you got that arch thing from. I completely disagree with that idea. In every day walking around you are really going for a "neutral" pelvic position. That is what puts the musculature in the most advantageous balance. You don't want the pelvis tilted too forward or backwards but "just right". A good arch is a good arch and quite frankly one size fits all advice can be a little haphazard.

If you had someone who didn't have a good tight arch you might tell them to exaggerate it to stress the point and get them where you want them but that would be on an individual basis. So from what I can see all that stuff at the beginning is making you look a bit unstable and all the pre-stretching is probably just helping to force your back out of set. Nothing good in that and as you say it don't feel good.

I have a list of the basic stretches that will serve people on average. Some people can be different and need different stretches. Also, though, there may be muscles where you need to increase ROM but others where you just need to maintain ROM or stretch to assist in recovery, etc. You don't need to be able to drop down into a side split to squat, lol.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.