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Originally Posted by JD¹³

I simply cannot do heavy squats going to parallel. My hip to knee length is almost 2.5ft, anything over 2 plates puts massive pressure on my knees and I can't risk it. Probably why I've capped out doing squats at only 240-250. Any more is genuinely uncomfortable, but I can leg press 8 plates without too much issue

if anything squatting above parallel puts more pressure on knee joints, i tried quarter squats before..... had to ice knee for a while, never again