10 Years A Pro Athlete, I Couldn't Squat Like My Grandmother | How I Found Mobility — Key Takeaways
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10 Years A Pro Athlete, I Couldn't Squat Like My Grandmother | How I Found Mobility
Making Moves Podcast30mAug 9, 2026
Watch the originalTreat the deep squat, hanging from a bar, and ground-based crawling as baseline human requirements — not exercises — and integrate them throughout your day rather than reserving them for gym sessions.
Key takeaways
Humans must be generalist movers first; specialization without this foundation breaks bodies
Humans must be generalist movers first; specialization without this foundation breaks bodies
- A professional tennis athlete couldn't squat, hang, or touch the ground despite years of elite training
- Children are natural generalists — specialization strips foundational movement capacity adults rarely recover
The deep squat is a resting position, not an exercise — losing it is cultural, not anatomical
The deep squat is a resting position, not an exercise — losing it is cultural, not anatomical
- Eastern Asian populations retain the deep squat into their 80s and 90s because daily life demands it
- 'My hips aren't built for it' is contradicted by universal human retention when the movement is never abandoned
Months of yoga produced zero flexibility gains; targeted mobility work later surpassed the yoga teacher
Months of yoga produced zero flexibility gains; targeted mobility work later surpassed the yoga teacher
- After quitting yoga and pursuing movement training, she outperformed the Bikram instructor in every pose
- Yoga as typically practiced (hot, fitness-oriented) does not reliably produce flexibility results
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In this video
- 1mThe question I get asked most
- 1mDesperation, not curiosity
- 1mWhen I got serious: martial arts to tennis
- 2mThe price of being a specialist
- 4mThe injury: a frozen shoulder for a year
- 5mChronic tendinitis nobody could fix
- 6mWhy Bikram yoga never made me flexible
- 7mThe seminar a friend dragged me to
- 8mIdo Portal and the day I got humbled
- 9mCouldn't squat, hang, or cartwheel
- 9mWhat my grandmother could still do
- 10mGiving it all up to chase movement
- 13mHumans first, movers second
- 16mMovement is the nucleus of your life
- 23mThe squat is a resting position, not an exercise
- 24mFitness is engineered, movement is free
- 26mOnly you can save you: movement is medicine
- 30mYour homework: journal it
“we are humans first move second and only then can we specialize in something”
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