Patient has dragged the squat rack 3 feet to the left so the mirror's angle reveals, specifically, the glutes during the descent. This has displaced the established weight-bench area. Another gym-goer has, silently, adjusted around the move. Patient has not noticed. The squat, in patient's training notes, is 'to check activation.' The activation, it turns out, is visual.
Chronic. The rack will be moved again next session.
None. 'I need to see the form' is a complete defense.
Patients with Pathological Squat-Form Mirror Migration typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Pathological Squat-Form Mirror Migration present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Cancellum ad speculum migratio, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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