Lower-body imbalances from squats will depend on how wide your stance is, where you point your knees, and how you use your muscles. Generally narrow and pointing forward you'll use quads, wider and out and it's glutes or hamstrings. I was definitely a hamstrings-dominant squatter and as a result I have tight hip flexors and hamstrings (this is apparently pretty common).
> The standing desk is probably a really good idea for preventing "turtle neck," because as far as I know there's no weight exercise where you push your head back and stretch the neck out (again, this is something that I do consciously now when walking).
Actually, that sounds like what I am doing at the end of a deadlift. Pull-ups and power cleans may also contribute.
But I'll watch out anyway.
I'll look up the muscles used on the squat. I am not that familiar with the anatomical names---in German we tended to use the vernacular.
I'll watch out, thanks! Though I feel that with power cleans, pull-ups/chin-ups, and a standing desk at work, those problems might not hit me as hard.
> Bench pressing can make the inward shoulders significantly worse by tightening the pectorals. I had a pretty bad problem and didn't realize it until I went to a posture specialist. Now I'm really aware of it - a lot of gym rats seem to have it.
At least alternate your bench presses with overhead presses. And do something for your shoulders.
> Apparently squats and deadlifts will give you pretty extreme imbalances in the hip muscles (that's what the posture specialist and a deep-tissue masseur told me after working on me). You can fix that by stretching. I don't know if it matters, because it doesn't seem to affect me functionally or aesthetically.
Is this true for below parallel squats, too? And what kind of stretching?