When I was younger I didn't put any real effort into mobility. I didn't even know the difference between stretching just to stretch vs working on real range of motion.My squats were sacred, I loved to go heavy and hard, doing volume of it. I had good range of motion, I was not doing shallow reps, but I also didn't improve by checking my form properly.I was a typical gym rat who refused to work on my obvious shortcomings. I took it as criticism and I wasn't willing to take it constructively.I made it into a story for myself how my workouts were too important for myself that I wanted to train without an audience, no judges no trainers. Guess why? I was attached to my performance and if I saw myself for real I'd feel like a loser, inadequate.I was more concerned about having the freedom to train just to train than to work on mastering real great technique.When my ankle and adductor mobility would cause compensation like flexing my lower back in the bottom position instead of working on that I just widened the stance.I wanted to load up the barbell with most weight and loved to go to parallel not deeper. You see, to go all the way down without rounding the back in the pit was impossible unless I dropped most of the weight to relearn a new way to move. Instead of working on real hip abduction strength I just trained my glutes to look good and missed out on a lot of muscle gains for that reason!Live and learn. Now there's no way I want to train like a gym rat or like an arrogant, ignorant fitness toddler, I am too proud to let myself do that!When you work on your squat mobility with me you'll notice how much more productive your workouts become!Instead of feeling defeated for not being as strong as you expected, see it as a wonderful time to gain more muscle than ever, plus, safer since you'll be reducing the load to go deeper. Depth and range of motion matters, and when your technique is solid your true strength increases.Have patience, stay focused and work your way up!