The use of the mirror during squats

Most personal trainers recommend squatting in front of a mirror for visual information about the art; some people who tend to put more weight on their dominant leg squat, using a mirror, can correct itself during exercise. Contrary to this, in most gyms Olympic lifting, no mirrors in front of the squat rack; to address the question of whether or not it is beneficial to perform squats in front of a mirror, researchers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago recently examined how preferential load that is affected when the exercise is performed with and without a mirror.

This research was presented at the Academic Sports Association at the Annual Meeting in Sacramento, California where researchers set out to examine the use of the mirror during squats ; for it recruited 10 healthy people (5 men and 5 women) who conducted five squats at the height of a chair fixed in three different positions feet and five deep squats with and without mirror.

They were asked to keep our feet on two platforms of different strength; this tool allowed the researchers to calculate the amount of force that a person placed in each leg during squats. Half of the participants developed the exercise with a mirror and the other half without a mirror, and then exchanged the position; so at the end of the study, reported that the comparison to make a squat with or without a mirror, no difference, citing the findings indicate that when it comes to distribution equal weights and symmetry of the load each leg during a squat, the mirror does not seem to make a 

In conclusion, the use of the mirror during the squat involving both legs not changed preferential loading of the lower extremities; then, athletes must choose for themselves a comfortable foot position during an exercise squat for equal load.