if your knees hurt while you're doing squats you're either doing the exercise wrong because you may not be going lower than parallel or because you shouldn't be doing squats if you've had an injury in the past or something similar

Yeah, when I was young, I had some really bad issues with my knees...jesus, my knees feel pressure just squating without any weights...

take a break from squats and focus on getting them stronger the last thing you want is a blown knee

Do knee rehab excersi2s, strengthen your knees, take glucosamin, and when doing squats go ass to grass for a period of time. I had badd knee problems a few years back because I always fell on them as a kid, and they're a lot better now. Strengthening knee/hamstrings helps pull the knee joint back, relieving stress off the knee, a2g squats use a glutes/hammys a lot.

Or visit a sports med doc for more help
Posted via RS Mobile

Awesome info guys. I really appreciate it. Don't want to have chicken legs lol
Posted via RS Mobile

Anyone know where I can get some chalk in Richmond? Fitness Depot along Bridgeport is closed, I went to Reflex and their branch didn't have any...also went to a fitness store across RC and he didn't have any either. :okay:

Atmosphere (SportChek)

Have you tried SierraSil? Might not be effective if it's been such a long-running issue, but may be worth a shot.

if u cant readily find sierrasil, give allmax allflex a try. helped my joint pains in just a few days.

I think before he tries serralsil or another joint pain relief pill, he should strengthen that knee.

These temporary joint relief pills might give him the illusion he can squat heavy again and might give that knee an extra boost to bust.

Just a thought.

Try these:

Step Down for Stronger, Healthier Knees

hey hal0 what grip do you use for guillotine press that targets your upper chest by your collarbone, shoulder width, close or wide?

FAWK.... just saw a dude max out the lat pull downs with perfect form and no back thrust... frikin beast of a man...:yuno:

that shit cray

wide and pause for a bit

do any of you guys know any websites similar to t nation that has a lot of good articles?

Just out of curiousity, how many of you guys here can do 3 plates or more on bench press? If you can, how long did it take you to get that high?

3 years for me
bench press is really hard to move up imo after 3 plate, i have been stuck at 4 plates for prob close to over a solid year now
if u want a high bench you constantly have to bench all the time for it to stay up, im sure most will say the same,
i am happy with being able to go in the gym and rep 3 plates that is good for me , doing singles on bench does really nothing for me just looks bad ass and is more of a ego thing, much rather stick to dunbells to build chest, i also like to do incline barbell over flat now

but that is just my 2 cents

Or try these :D

The 09 Best Alternatives to the Bench Press

3:15.. wtf

so maybe i should stop ? i got into an accident back in october that banged up my knee but it didnt hurt for the first 2 months but since late november i've been feeling a pain , normally when i keep them bent for too long or i go down on my knee

^
was that a 5 plate bench i just saw...

yeah eventually you'll get to a point where your knees are going to have some issues

but you could do exercises to strengthen them.. but if you have pain that keeps on persisting i don't know.. it sucks not being able to squat

:accepted:

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."

- Theodore Roosevelt