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The bethak sends the knees well past the toes with the heels off the floor, which breaks the one squat rule everybody knows. Both sides of the argument cite research that never studied the movement. Here is what the evidence covers, where it stops, and how to start without hurting yourself.

Six thousand squats a day, four thousand push-ups, twenty litres of milk. The Great Gama's training figures get repeated everywhere. Read the source properly and the same round numbers turn up for other wrestlers, and the biographer who studied his training said nobody ever counted. What the record does document is more useful.