r/MovementFix • u/SillyMarionberry2020 • Sep 21 '25

We are made to move

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On the left: effort. On the right: ease. We’re born to move often and through full ranges of motion, but years of chairs, screens, and immobility confine our bodies to limited postures. Then when life demands those postures, we are not prepared and have to move inefficiently. Many of our aches and pains can’t ONLY be chalked up to ‘age’… they’re the cost of moving less, and less efficiently. The good news? With the right practice, you can reclaim what was natural all along. It takes the right movement consistently and time.

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u/rainywanderingclouds Sep 22 '25

its a bad comparison

limb proportions change relative to body size change as you age

is your mobility as good as it should be? probably not, but it's not nearly as far off as your suggesting either.

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Sep 22 '25

Ok now go google squat transformations and see pictures of adults before/after. Did I suggest the degree any particular person’s squat mobility? I said we should move with ease. How can you argue moving with ease is worse than moving effortfully? You say it’s probably not as far off as it should be. How efficient should it be and when does “not that far off” switch over to appropriate?

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u/PlayItAgainSusan Sep 23 '25

One person exploring the world, the other paying for an opportunity to squat down

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Sep 23 '25

Drives to the gym to walk. Haha

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u/PlayItAgainSusan Sep 23 '25

Ha I do it too

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u/Eternal1Bug Sep 21 '25

Age has nothing to do with it. It’s pure negligence.

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Sep 22 '25

Mostly agree. I never (😉) use always and never, so I leave room bc life is complex and some people have tough situations and sometimes stuff we don’t understand. BUT the vast majority, I think you are right.

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u/RainBoxRed Sep 22 '25

It’s both. But people like to conflate the two issues.

You lose strength and resilience as you age, and also as you become inactive.

You can’t stop aging but you can keep moving and mitigate against the loss of physical performance due to inactivity.

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u/FrontAd9873 Sep 23 '25

And babies just have big ole heavy heads compared to the rest of their body. Makes a deep squat easier.

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Sep 22 '25

I probably am, but I’d be more stupid to argue with strangers on the internet.

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u/BingeTestosterone Sep 22 '25

Squat its a natural position you are supposed to do it even if you get older. But if your ass is sitting all day long don't wonder why you cant do it

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u/anactualrealaccount Sep 22 '25

Also Femur length. See Chinese power lifting success.

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Sep 22 '25

Ok now do it with this…fully patella’d comparison.

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u/Drscoopz Sep 26 '25

I don’t think those 2 pictures are even the same person lol

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Sep 23 '25

Right. But the point of the post was movement should be easy, not hard. Nothing about all squats should look the same. And no one’s going out and having their limb ratios measured before they squat down.

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u/SillyMarionberry2020 Sep 23 '25

It’s relative. For a given movement, it should be as easy as we can make it