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Podcast: The Active Life Podcast
Episode: Don’t Use the Overhead Squat in Your Assessment
Description: In this episode, Sean and Cody explain why Active Life’s movement assessment deliberately avoids popular top-down screens like the overhead squat and instead relies on joint-level, bottom-up testing. Sean walks through how the assessment was originally adapted from his clinical work and why the goal is not to watch a movement fail, but to predict how a movement will fail before loading ever occurs. The conversation breaks down the real limitations of screens such as the FMS when used with general population clients and even high-level athletes. Sean explains how skilled athletes can hide massive inefficiencies through compensation, crea...