Squatting instead of bending your back

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When picking up things or doing anything below your hips like filling the dishwasher or taking the loundry

is it normal to squat for literally everything as a man?

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  • Normalmember
    11 months ago | pl

    If you pay attention to babies or toddlers they squat to pick everything up, it is a natural moment. It's better than bending, especially for heavy things.

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    • ospry
      11 months ago | pl

      Don't toddlers squat to pick things up because they're extremely top-heavy and trying to bend at the waist causes them to fall over?

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  • Yaidin
    11 months ago | pl

    I work in a warehouse. If I was going to bend my back over everything in there, I'd probably be a cripple by now lol. Plus squatting is good for the legs

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  • RoseIsabella
    11 months ago | pl

    I like to pick things up with my toes.

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  • Anonnet
    11 months ago | pl

    Yeah, that's literally the way you're supposed to lift things. I've been warned more times than I can count (I used to work retail) that you lift with your knees, not with your back. I injured my shoulder once by overdoing it, but better my shoulder than my spine.

    And for light lifts, like dishes and laundry? Hey, you're doing squats. I hear squats are the best exercise known to mankind or something.

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  • SkullsNRoses
    11 months ago | pl

    I do this, even though I feel a bit ridiculous at work sometimes I’d rather that than deal with back pain. Anyone who comments on it is outing them-self for staring at your arse anyway.

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  • 1WeirdGuy
    11 months ago | pl

    I always bent at the knees and was careful not to lift wrong and it didnt matter. Still ruptured several discs in my 20s had to get surgeries.

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    • raisinbran
      11 months ago | pl

      Bad genes. I've lifted plenty of heavy things incorrectly and never had a problem.

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      • 1WeirdGuy
        11 months ago | pl

        Probably genes played a role but I also did this job for 6 years where I had to lift irregs (boxes from 70 pounds to 165 pounds) from the ground into the back of a trailer and then loaders would pull them in. Id do this for 8 hours a day. It was like deadlifting fulltime and I felt great. My hamstrings and ass muscle was huge, I had alot of energy, but as soon as I got promoted and stopped doing it the muscles shrank down and then my back fell apart. I think the discs were already ruptured but didnt know it. Next thing you know I was out of work for weeks at a time.

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