{"id":223329,"date":"2022-03-17T14:58:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/what-it-means-when-you-can-t-do-a-deep-squat"},"modified":"2022-03-17T14:58:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:58:38","slug":"what-it-means-when-you-can-t-do-a-deep-squat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/what-it-means-when-you-can-t-do-a-deep-squat","title":{"rendered":"What It Means When You Can&#8217;t Do A Deep Squat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you noticed while you were working on lifting your booty, or perhaps it was when you bent down to pick up the toys your dog-child left on the floor. However it happened, you finally had the realization&#8230; you can&#8217;t do a deep squat the way you used to! Our bodies are designed to crouch and get low, but it can become a bit harder as we get older. There are a few explanations for this change, but the most common reason we struggle to squat is pretty simple, actually. We sit too much and use those muscles too little. Since we were school kids, we&#8217;ve been training our muscles to sit for 8 hours a day or more. While we have likely always spent a lot of time sitting , it&#8217;s not the most natural position for our bodies. Physical therapist Doug Kechijian explained to Men&#8217;s Health that when sitting in a chair, our hip and ankle muscles tighten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sitting too much is the biggest culprit when it comes to inhibiting your range of motion. There are a few muscle groups that can be negatively affected by it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,116],"tags":[191,6,224,264],"class_list":["post-223329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-workouts","tag-fitness","tag-lifestyle","tag-workouts","tag-yoga"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}