Lost Art of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines
The strangest thing about this is that children know this without any input, and then go bad.  I&#x27;ve watched my older son (now 5) go from having a perfect squat and hip hinge to starting to bend over &quot;like an adult&quot; with the arched back.<p>There must be some reason that everyone, to some good approximation -- I&#x27;m in the US and this is what I see, does this the wrong way.  Even people who know better seem to require conscious effort to do the motion correctly, myself included.<p>Maybe it&#x27;s because squatting and hip hinging are thing that require that you work into the position, rather than &quot;falling&quot; into it.  It is strange that it follows cultural lines; possibly it&#x27;s just imitating what people around you are doing, so fixing this would require some pretty large-scale brainwashing.