I have succesfully started incorporating front squats and overhead squats into my workout. I go as low as possible and my rear usually is about two inches from the ground.
Once I am warmed up and working out my knees are SOLID. They feel great and I feel confident in my strenght.
My problem is that when I am not working out my knees are creaky and there is a slight pain when I bend.
I am 23, I take a fish oil capsules with every meal and my whole life I have had knees that crack when I bend down. But I have never had any pain in my knees until I started squatting low. Any advice, thoughts or people with similiar problems??
It’s probably just some patellar tendinitis. I get it occasionally,too, and I’m 24 FWIW.
The two things that pretty much prevent it altogether for me are to do a proper warmup and to remain flexible. If I fall behind on my stretching it will start to bother me, but as long as I keep my hip flexors, quads, hams, and calves loose, it is not a problem.
Not a big deal, just warmup better and start to stretch.
Yup I warm up for about 10 minutes prior to my bout with quads. I just couldnt bring that shit to the grass. I hit the bike for 5 and do several pansy sets on the leg extension and I superset those with bodyweight squats.
So I recently developed some patellar tendonitis, it is only in one knee, and it is mild, stretching and warming up thoroughly helps it to not get re-aggravated, as does fish oil, icing after activity, and being aware of it.
Additionally, you might want to consider the shoes you are training in. I am almost entirely certain that I developed this knee pain/tendonitis because I was doing heavy activity in broken old shoes that were not even designed for the type of activity I was doing in the first place.