If my knees hurt from squatting...

[eat big]

I'm gonna lower the weight tonight. Gonna see how that works out..thanks peeps

Lowering the weight will help. But try it once without shoes, trust me it's amazing.

 

[coolcolj]

loosen up your external hip rototrs, quads and hip flexors. That will ease tension on the patella - can help depending on the kind of pain

 

[HunterUk]

Suprised it hasn't been mentioned yet but try and go deep as possible, stopping at parallel keeps the shearing forces on the knees whilst going lower shifts it more to the hips - a lot of people have found this has completely removed all knee pain. Madcow and others said a lot on this if you want more info.

 

[zaxxon1982]

Lowering the weight will help. But try it once without shoes, trust me it's amazing.

Squatting barefoot is very nice. If you must wear shoes because of personal reasons or gym rules, get some Chuck Taylors. Cheap, flexible, and also very good for deads in addition to squats.

 

[seizer]

Lowering the weight will help. But try it once without shoes, trust me it's amazing.

I lowered the weight tonight. It was a little better. I also happened to do it barefoot too, but only because I was too lazy to put on shoes...and it helped too lol.

 

[Tweakle]

Sitting back on a box helps a LOT when my knees are aching, you don't even have to pause - just put the box at a height just below where you'd bottom out in the squat and tap it gently with that booty then blast up. The action of sitting back to 'feel' for the box will prevent too much forward lean (hopefully )

 

[Quadsweeps Sister]

Are you going deep? Oly stance or PL?

My first guess would be forward lean, especially since you brought it up. Leaning can be due to a weak posterior chain or weak abs, or both. Or just lack of practice with 'sitting back'. I can tell you this much - 'curing' my forward lean caused my squat to take some hefty jumps in poundage.

Extremely good advice here - all points.

 

[mojaz87]

loosen up your external hip rototrs, quads and hip flexors. That will ease tension on the patella - can help depending on the kind of pain

Does anybody know some good exercises to achieve this? I sometimes have some pain from right bahind the patella. Maybe doing ^^this would help.

 

[eat big]

I lowered the weight tonight. It was a little better. I also happened to do it barefoot too, but only because I was too lazy to put on shoes...and it helped too lol.

Cool. If you've seen Pumpin Iron, Arnold and Ed Corney squat in flip flops/barefoot or loafers. Just because they do it doesn't mean it's right but I like it.

I am able to balance much better with bare feet.

 

[thelion2005]

I'm gonna lower the weight tonight. Gonna see how that works out..thanks peeps

Had this problem and cured it with super warm up as follows:

(1) Ride reclining (or stationary) bike at low resistance for 15 minutes.

(2) Stretch lightly ... pulling ankle to glutes while standing.

(3) Wear Dunroy knee wraps.

(4) Hamstring curls first. 3 x 12

(5) Start routine with leg extensions 3 x 12,10,8 increasing weight.

(6) 3 X 8 slow full squats with no weight. Then the heavy squats.

Results? No pain and better pump and more weight used.