Miguel Viero

Your joints talk to each other.

 

Your squat is not a shape, it’s a collaboration

Most people think they’re practicing squats.
They’re not.
They’re trying to land a picture.

The shape they admire.
The depth they want.
The angle they saw someone else hold with ease.

But the body doesn’t care about your desires.
It cares about what you are doing with what it can offer right now.

And this is where things fall apart:
People force the squat they wish they had instead of working with the squat their structure is currently capable of giving.

Until you understand this difference, you’re not squatting.
You’re bargaining with your expectations.

A squat is a conversation, not a position

A real squat is not “hips back”, “knees out”, “abs braced”.

A squat is an ongoing whole body communication, and there are three joints conducting the orchestra:

ankles, knees, hips.

If one joint stops participating, the whole relationship breaks.
If one tries to dominate, the others compensate.
If you impose a depth your body didn’t agree to, the form collapses from the inside.

A good squat isn’t measured by how low you go,
but by how honestly you listen.

Collaboration means meeting your body where it is today.
Forcing means pretending you’re already somewhere else.

That’s the split.

People fall in love with the image, not the reality

The deepest version.
The aesthetic line.
The geometry they wish they could inhabit.

But copying someone else’s shape without respecting your own anatomy, history, and moment-to-moment feedback is just mimicry.

You can admire someone’s squat.
But you can’t just try to force-fit it into your body.

Your current capacities matter.
Your proportions matter.
Your limitations matter.

A real squat doesn’t come from desire.
It comes from the dialogue between your body’s possibilities and your intention.

You don’t “make” it happen.
You negotiate it.

Your feet define the universe you’re working with

The distance between your feet, the angle they’re pointing, and how your weight meets the floor create a universe of possibilities and constraints.

Feet together.
Feet wide.
Feet parallel.
Feet turned out.
Asymmetrical bases.

Each one is a different relationship pattern.
Not a cheat.
Not a workaround.
A new structural conversation.

Changing foot positions is not the problem.
Changing them unconsciously is.

If you adjust the base only to chase a deeper shape, the collaboration is already broken.
But if you adjust it to understand how your body reorganizes itself, you’re actually practicing.

Your feet aren’t the start position.
They’re the language the rest of your body listens to.

Integrity is the non-negotiable contract

Let’s be clear:

If your upper body collapses and your head got closer to the floor, you didn’t earn anything.
It’s just an illusion of going lower, but your pelvis already left the conversation.
You simply abandoned the agreement.

The pelvis must stay under you.
The spine must stay open.
The knees must stay available.

Neutral doesn’t mean stiff.
It means availability.

A squat full of collapse and compensation is not a live squat.
It’s just a low position.

Arms thrown forward, ribs sticking out, pelvis escaping backward.
These are not “technique errors”.

Those are the body’s ways of saying:
“You’re lying to yourself.”

Your job is to listen before the lie becomes a habit.

The ankles are often the ones setting the limits

Most squat challenges begin where people look the least:

the ankles.

When the ankle reaches its dorsiflexion limit:

• the pelvis gets stuck,
• the knees collapse,
• the spine picks up work it shouldn’t do,
• the arms become counterweights,
• and the whole structure starts lying.

Not because you’re stiff or weak.
But because one joint stopped participating in the collective effort.

If the ankles stop offering space, the whole structure loses coordination.

This is why Achilles and calf elasticity, and foot sensitivity matter far more than people think.

Your squat is built on tissues you rarely give attention to.

Human Origami: folding with intelligence

Now we reach the core.

The squat is not a fixed form.
It’s a Human Origami unfolding in real time.

It’s the body folding and unfolding with intelligence.
One joint answers another.
Space adjusts to intention.
Geometry emerges from relationship.

The point is not to avoid geometry.
The point is to avoid copying someone else’s shapes without respecting your structure.

Human Origami means:

• your folds follow your proportions,
• your shapes respond to your current possibilities,
• and your alignment and range evolves through listening, not imitation.

A shape that emerges from collaboration is alive.
A shape forced to imitate is dead.

Humility is technique

Here’s the part no one wants to hear:

A deep squat is easy to fake.
A honest squat is hard.

Humility is the real technique.

Humility to pause where the body pauses.
Humility to feel restriction without fighting it.
Humility to reorganize instead of ignore.
Humility to build from what you have, not from what you wish you had.

A squat is not proof of mobility.
It’s proof of relationship.

If you stop listening, the relationship ends.

When you collaborate with your body, everything changes

You stop trying to land the perfect shape.

You start exploring your shape.

Different bases.
Different spirals.
Different rhythms.
Different dialogues with gravity.
Different stories told through the same intention: folding without collapse, unfolding without compensation.

You begin to notice the subtle communication:

• how the hips respond to the feet,
• how the ankles unlock the knees,
• how the spine adjusts without giving up integrity,
• how the arms participate without stealing responsibility,
• how the breath gives volume to the form.

The squat stops being an exercise.
It becomes a relationship between structure and intention.

That’s the point:
A squat is not a photo. It’s an ongoing conversation.
A form that stays alive because you stay involved.

This is the work that matters.
This is the work that lasts.
This is the work that belongs to you.

 

 

If reading this made you realize you’ve been forcing shapes, ignoring signals, or pretending your squat is something it’s not, you don’t need more information.
You need someone who won’t let you lie to yourself.

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If you’re ready for clarity, structure, and practice without ego tricks, reach out.