Anyone dealt with knee pain during squats and such? I've

Your quads are tight. Loosen them and strengthen hamstrings. This plagues me

Try leaning forwards more (make sure your back is at 45deg) Also make sure you're driving your knees outwards. Also try knee wraps

talk to a doctor and get some knee sleeves. good ones not convenience store ones. I got Inzer XT knee sleeves and I've never regretted it

Strange, anon, I've had almost the exact same problem as you, especially the part about it getting easier if you push through it.

Advice (my personal experience):
>Do a proper warm-up (light cardo, kinetic stretches, ect.)
>Also do a proper cooldown (static stretches. The human body is weird; if one muscle group is tight, it can affect other areas negatively)
>Do supplementary work to keep leg muscles balanced (just like with stretching, the body needs balance and will try to compensate in weird ways to accommodate for that)
>Wear a brace (you could easily have patellar tendonitis, very common)
>Lighten the load or take a break (overtraining is a real thing; listen to what your body is trying to tell you. 2 weeks off from squats isn't going to ruin your gains)

Again, this is all my personal, non-professional opinion

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Thanks guys, all great advice. Will see if I can get it fixed.

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foam rolling out your IT bands and quads might help. Calves too occasionally.

do some lightweight goblet squats. Aim for like 10 reps

Also if you think you're weak in your hamstrings try out glute ham raises, but make sure that you do them after you squat/deadlift

I get this knee pain during squats and when running. I normally warm up with intervals on the rowing machine or bike, and my knee feels fine for some time, but the day after I can feel it flare up while running for the bus. Really fucks with my leg gains :/

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I just got done seeing a chiropractor about knee pain so bad I couldn't walk days after workouts. First day back doing legs, and I can immediately tell that the problem is stupidly tight quads. That's the muscle that controls and holds the knee together, so it makes sense.

Start stretching your quads a lot more than you are right now. dynamic stretches to warmup, static to cool down. Strengthen your hamstrings. Try and incorporate more Closed-chain exercises into your routine; Open-chain exercises just give your knee room to wobble and flex in ways you don't want it to. Keep the exercises double-leg until the pain stops.

Also, my guy told me that when it comes to cardio to cut out running entirely and replace it with swimming. It sucks, because I'm terrible at swimming, but the whole 'moving while floating' bit gets all the muscles working harmoniously instead of stressing one group more than the other. Grab a pair of goggles and find a trainer if you can't swim.

If you're taking care of it properly, you won't have any more flareups. You're young and healthy; this stuff goes away with proper mindfulness.

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Will def try this, thanks m8

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"Nah anon you don't need to stretch"
-some guy who doesn't squat because "his knees hurt"