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bblazer
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Please do not be offended by this.
I am a believer that there is no correlation between hurt knees and a properly preformed squat. In short, if you are doing your squat right, then there should be no problem with your knees.
When people come to me and say their knees hurt when they squat, 95 times out of 100, I can point to flaws in their form that are causing it. The other 5 have a structural problem with their knees that either is not related to squats, or has come from doing them wrong for a long time.
Here is what I would do. Drop your weight in half, and get your form down as close to perfect as you can. While you are doing this, your knees will heal up, and you will then be in a position to move up in weight without worrying about your knees.
If you are unsure about your form, find someone that knows more than "bro-ology" to watch you - preferably a power lifter or strongman. If you can't find one of those, video yourself from the side, and from the front, post it up here and we can try and help.
Good luck,
B-
I am a believer that there is no correlation between hurt knees and a properly preformed squat. In short, if you are doing your squat right, then there should be no problem with your knees.
When people come to me and say their knees hurt when they squat, 95 times out of 100, I can point to flaws in their form that are causing it. The other 5 have a structural problem with their knees that either is not related to squats, or has come from doing them wrong for a long time.
Here is what I would do. Drop your weight in half, and get your form down as close to perfect as you can. While you are doing this, your knees will heal up, and you will then be in a position to move up in weight without worrying about your knees.
If you are unsure about your form, find someone that knows more than "bro-ology" to watch you - preferably a power lifter or strongman. If you can't find one of those, video yourself from the side, and from the front, post it up here and we can try and help.
Good luck,
B-
Lots of knee replacement rehab going on in my gym. Just as bblazer advises, form is very important. We watch the line of force from above, sides and below to see that head, neck, spine, hips, knees, ankles and feet are all inline. Everyone starts off with a bare bar. Depth is parallel. Build up to 135, 8 perfect reps and then 1" lower.
Pain can come from the smallest deviation. Or ... the damage is already done.
No wraps either until the weight really starts to climb.
I found "chin up - eyes up" to make a big difference. Also ...
the knee cap dead over toes.
awesome advice as usual.
to the poster, what is your entire leg routine and its frequency? there could be issues besides the squat. it might just hurt the most then.
Gonna agree as well. Most damage created is breaking form. Getting the form down and all else falls into place. I have never injured my knees squatting...but I did tear my rotator cuff.
nouse4one
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Sets / Reps
Squats 3 / 6
Frnt Squats 2/12
Leg extensions 2/??
Leg Curls 4/8
Dumbell Lunges 4/ ??
Calfs
Calfs
Calfs
nouse4one
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Just left the Gym, im really siked i tryed out some things from the vids concerning alignment with your toes and knees it helped my form out 200% no knee pain! i got this shit in check now. Going to keep the weight low for a couple more work outs, then we will see about building building some muscle
bblazer
Banned
I'm glad there has been some improvement.
I like to call the clean and press a 2000 rep movement, meaning that it takes about 2000 reps before you have it down pat. Squats are pretty close to that - about 1200-1500.
Keep at it - as the weight goes up the more important form becomes. I had to ditch the other week because my back was just an inch or two forward, I couldn't recover, and it threw the whole rep off.
B-
