So do mine, and I see many, many people whose knees collapse some. They don’t seem to suffer from knee pain, so unless it hurts WHEN it happens I’d be cautious about ascribing the knee pain to that.
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Thanks man. I’ll watch out for it the next time I squat and see what happens.
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Hey man sorry to hear that. What I would do now is to rest your knee for a good while. Let the pain die down a little. When I had my knee pain from squats, I did body weight / air squats with different degrees of toe flare and different stance width and a combination of the two. I noticed it was when my toes were close to parallel that it was putting too much torque on my left knee when I would squat so I started avoiding that. Putting them at 45 degrees and making sure my knees didn’t cave in and tracked over my feet did the trick. I’m not suggesting you squat at 45 degree toe flare, but playing around with those small things did the trick for me.
As for the physio, I think your best bet (value for money) is Moro in Ateneo. I’ll ask around how to book an appointment and all. Otherwise, the only other place I know is Cardinal, which would definitely be more costly.
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Thanks man, will do that. It sucks, I was just beginning to actually like squatting lol
Lol that’s okay dude. I had to reset my squats because of that. When I figured out that was the culprit, I went back down to 1 plate and slowly worked up from there.
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Thanks man. I’ll hold out for a bit on the physio though, hopefully the pain dies down with rest and a few form changes.
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Also, I’m no expert and not strong at all but I think you’re divebombing your squats a bit on some reps. So you lose tightness at the bottom because of that. There are some reps that are too low and it’s causing you some butt wink.
Again, I’m not strong by any means and in no position to nitpick other’s forms, but maybe that could help. Maybe @chris_ottawa, @bulldog9899, or @markko can help confirm or disagree with what I’m seeing
Yes, there is some divebombing but it doesn’t look like @johnimperial is folding over so much at the bottom or losing too much tension. So it isn’t something I’d discourage, just something to be aware of. I mean, maybe the speed could cause some pain in the knees? If there’s a shock I guess maybe.
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Yeah, definitely divebombed some of it. I’ll have to work on slowing it down a bit.
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I really, REALLY wouldn’t recommend that. You’re not losing any control that you had because of the speed of your descent, so there’s no reason to slow down. You get good stretch reflex that way.
You’d be better served to work on your bracing, so squeeze your lats, tuck your shin and stabilise your pelvis by pulling your abs in, holding your pee and squeezing your glutes.
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Thanks man. I won’t slow it down then.
I’ll have to incorporate these in the things I have to think about as I squat. I read you wrote this somewhere extensively, not sure which log. I tried the “holding your pee/shit” cue, and man what a difference that was. The problem now is remembering all these cues with a heavy load on your back lol
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That comes with time. Look, if you need to slow the descent down in order to actually do those things then yes, slow it down. However, if you managed to incorporate one element without slowing your descent chances are that with practice you’ll get the whole lot.
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Pretty sure it was here lol
@markko sorry if I caused some confusion regarding the divebombing
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No, not at all. Generally speaking it’s good advice because most times someone descends that fast it’s a shitshow. This is one of those rare cases that we have @johnimperial who can descend that fast without folding in half and making a camel impersonation
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Can you describe the knee pain, chronic or stabbing? Where in the knee, knee cap, side, under ?
There are lots of moving parts down there so knee pain is a little too vague.
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Damn, it was here. LOL
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Hard to really describe. I’m trying to look for the pain by poking different parts but that’s not it. It was really painful when I was going down the stairs (not every step, just that one single step) and I had to hold onto the railings just to avoid falling down. When walking, there’s pain when I put pressure on the left foot.
First I am not a medical professional so you should assume I know fk all.
Sounds like it could just be a little swelling under the knee cap possible bursitis.
Try some anti inflammatory meds for a couple of days and ice it and see if it goes away.
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Thanks Simo. I was thinking on taking pain meds when the pain becomes unbearable anyway. For now I have knee sleeves so I can get to the office. I’ll ice it when I get home.
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Tried third world squatting with hip width stance. No pain at the bottom, once I initiate standing up (around 2 or 3 inches from atg) the pain shoots up right in the middle of the knee. No idea what this means tho. Kept my toes/knees pointed out.