hornedfrogs07
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How can I reduce knee pain while squatting? I've gone from wearing tennis shoes to squatting barefoot and from very little warmup to a very extensive one beforehand, but the pain stays the same.
I'd never had knee pain until about this past January, but all of a sudden it just got HORRIBLE. I'm talking to the point that it almost made me cry just to walk (and I have a VERY high pain tolerance)......it got so bad that couldn't walk from my desk in lots of classes to the front without leaning on something the whole way. So, I took 2 weeks off of doing legs altogether, 4 weeks off of squats, and they still didn't get better, so, after I figured out that it was 75% likely patellar tendonitis (about 25% probable for chondromalacia patella), I started doing stim treatment on it after work. Still didn't help. I finally got fed up with the whole 'rest' thing, so I said fuck the pain and started back harder than before.
It got somewhat better this summer, and got to the point that I rarely, if ever, thought about it even, and to where I'd even quit IcyHot'ing my knees before every leg day........however, this week, I had to put off doing legs for 2 days because of pain.
I squat with my feet about halfway between shoulder-width and the extreme width used in PL-style, and I now do box squats to a low plyo box (8-9" off the ground), so I'm not going ATF, but I'm damn sure going past parallel. Form isn't my problem either, I have very little, if any anterior translation in the knee joint (i.e. coming forward on the toes).
So, any suggestions to help with the knees?
BTW, sorry if this is somewhat incoherent babbling. It's late. I'm tired. I'll double check this tomorrow to see if I need to add anything or rephrase anything.
I'd never had knee pain until about this past January, but all of a sudden it just got HORRIBLE. I'm talking to the point that it almost made me cry just to walk (and I have a VERY high pain tolerance)......it got so bad that couldn't walk from my desk in lots of classes to the front without leaning on something the whole way. So, I took 2 weeks off of doing legs altogether, 4 weeks off of squats, and they still didn't get better, so, after I figured out that it was 75% likely patellar tendonitis (about 25% probable for chondromalacia patella), I started doing stim treatment on it after work. Still didn't help. I finally got fed up with the whole 'rest' thing, so I said fuck the pain and started back harder than before.
It got somewhat better this summer, and got to the point that I rarely, if ever, thought about it even, and to where I'd even quit IcyHot'ing my knees before every leg day........however, this week, I had to put off doing legs for 2 days because of pain.
I squat with my feet about halfway between shoulder-width and the extreme width used in PL-style, and I now do box squats to a low plyo box (8-9" off the ground), so I'm not going ATF, but I'm damn sure going past parallel. Form isn't my problem either, I have very little, if any anterior translation in the knee joint (i.e. coming forward on the toes).
So, any suggestions to help with the knees?
BTW, sorry if this is somewhat incoherent babbling. It's late. I'm tired. I'll double check this tomorrow to see if I need to add anything or rephrase anything.
