Learning how to squat, bend, push, pull, twist, and having proper gait is imperative to you moving and feeling your best. But you don’t just want to go straight to these without adequately making sure your body is in the best possible form to learn them.
These movements are global moves, meaning that your whole body is involved in them. This means if you have weak links (especially within the chain of the action) your body will adapt (cheat) to accomplish it. This means that something is going to be moving in a way it shouldn’t or just flat out not working well at all. You can still do, but it will be hurting, not helping your body.
And this is something that can not be trained out with just practicing the form of the movement. You need to assess what the weakest link(s) are and train them individually. If I want to give directions to one specific person so that they can correct their part, I don’t yell general directions to the whole group. I talk to that person explicitly telling them what they need to do.
Master the segmental strengthening, myofascial stretching, and proprioception and then start to slowly adding in the global movements. Now your body and mind will have the proper solicitation to learn the exercises efficiently.
