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First day of logging workout in notebook was a success. Clear handwriting and solid notes on form and pain in knees 
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Son Goku
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First day of logging workout in notebook was a success. Clear handwriting and solid notes on form and pain in knees
Gully Bull
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Maybe you can shine a light on what’s happening
started out with back squats and the pain wasn’t debilitating but it felt like I was on stilts. Did two or three reps at each weight increment with a considerable amount of rest time. I switched to front squats and the pain was barely noticeable. Also walking lunges with light weights didnt make me grimace. It’s only at the bottom of the squat when I hit parallel that I feel discomfort.
And outside of just not working out legs, what would you suggest?
For the next month, I won’t be as active as I have to audit my companies records so my only physical activity will be at the gym
wedmd suggest it’s either cancer or Patellofemoral pain syndrome which just says to rest and stretch
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First day of logging workout in notebook was a success. Clear handwriting and solid notes on form and pain in knees
You an interesting case study bruh
Maybe you can shine a light on what’s happening
started out with back squats and the pain wasn’t debilitating but it felt like I was on stilts. Did two or three reps at each weight increment with a considerable amount of rest time. I switched to front squats and the pain was barely noticeable. Also walking lunges with light weights didnt make me grimace. It’s only at the bottom of the squat when I hit parallel that I feel discomfort.
And outside of just not working out legs, what would you suggest?
For the next month, I won’t be as active as I have to audit my companies records so my only physical activity will be at the gym
wedmd suggest it’s either cancer or Patellofemoral pain syndrome which just says to rest and stretch
never stop being u
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
Maybe you can shine a light on what’s happening
started out with back squats and the pain wasn’t debilitating but it felt like I was on stilts. Did two or three reps at each weight increment with a considerable amount of rest time. I switched to front squats and the pain was barely noticeable. Also walking lunges with light weights didnt make me grimace. It’s only at the bottom of the squat when I hit parallel that I feel discomfort.
And outside of just not working out legs, what would you suggest?
For the next month, I won’t be as active as I have to audit my companies records so my only physical activity will be at the gym
Sounds like you have runner's knee to me, which could actually be a few different syndromes.
(Basically an overuse injury caused by repetitive soft tissue stress.) The main reason daily/frequent squatting is not recommended for less than advanced lifters is that any form deficiencies will be magnified in proportion to the increase in frequency. If you went from 2 days to 5 days, you increased freq by 2.5x. If you form is less than stellar, you also just increased the amount of times you squatted with mid form by 2.5x too.
You were doing cardio (racquetball plus some other forms right?) and squatting and still doing other leg exercises, yes?, and it sounds like your connective tissues got stressed and couldn't take it. Remember @The Butcher can daily squat because his cardio game is almost non-existent. Any type of high-impact exercise is compounding the stress on the shock absorbers in your legs that allow you to squat. You double (or maybe triple) dipped.
One of the reason's I woulda told you *not* to try daily squatting besides:
- the fact that you don't compete and thus don't need to raise your 1RM using such drastic measures
- I'm pretty sure you didn't read up on the Bulgarian Method or other similar programming, you prolly just jumped into it
, especially since you never asked for #POWDA1's adivce. 
The same way we don't do quite as many sets per muscle group on a PPL split that we do on a bro split is because we doubled the frequency of the stimulus to a given muscle group. (My sessions are usually less than 15 working reps compared to maybe 40 or so working reps on other splits.)
First thing you do when planning to squat everyday is cut volume. Quad-focused leg accessory exercises are nixed (I for example do maybe three sets of Leg Extensions every two weeks). No lunges, no leg pressing, nothing, because squatting already provides more than enough stimulation, and those other, inferior exercises are only further taxing your recovery. Also, if you weren't conscious of keeping some quad/hammy balance in there it could have exacerbated the problem.
Not only do you cut total leg exercise volume, you should also be cutting the number of reps per set as well (don't know if you did this or not). Majority of your working sets should have been 1 or 2 reps max, with a few lighter doubles and triples if your energy levels permitted. If you tried doing 5x5 or 3x10 or whatever rep scheme everyday,
.Not wearing sleeves was also foolish. Can you daily squat without them, of course, but the folks that do build up to that. Besides giving you support out of the hole and adding a few pounds to you squat, sleeves also serve to warm up your knees and keep them warm: you can literally abbreviate or even skip warming up just by putting on your sleeves ahead of time and traveling to the gym.
But yeah, sounds like your muscles might have been recovering okay but your tendons and ligaments weren't. You kept pushing it because you're not a bytch and now those same connective tissues are sprained and inflamed.
RICEN is what they told me to do when I had runner's knee. Take it easy until your knees have recovered.
Son Goku
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Patellofemoral syndrome falls under the runner's knee diagnosis umbrella. It's possible you have that and maybe something else too.
Gully Bull
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Just popped a glucosamine pill, I’m sweatingnever stop being u
Patellofemoral syndrome falls under the runner's knee diagnosis umbrella. It's possible you have that and maybe something else too.
Looks like it’s walking briskly around the mall in a windbreaker outfit and body weight squats for me
Son Goku
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All barbell lift maxes were up 50 pounds (didn't test incline bench all year). PLT only went up 10 pounds last year, with PRs on bench, sumo deads, high-bar squat, Pendlay row, and fronts. Still no low-bar PR.
Kind of to be expected given that I was on the road for 9 ½ months, so at least I didn't regress at all.
2022's goals will be to increase conditioning and break 1500 lbs (wrapped). I really want that shirt.
Kind of to be expected given that I was on the road for 9 ½ months, so at least I didn't regress at all.
2022's goals will be to increase conditioning and break 1500 lbs (wrapped). I really want that shirt.
Son Goku
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Squatting is one of the repetitive motions that both causes and can further aggravate runner's knee. I wouldn't even do the prison squats tbh. Ask @Lavista what them air squats did for his gains.
Maybe if you just chilled the fukk out and took it easy you could get back in the game faster.
Your ass staying doing the most during practice then can't suit up during game day.At the end of the day I know you'll do what you want (as you should). Not his knees, not his business.
Gully Bull
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OkSquatting is one of the repetitive motions that both causes and can further aggravate runner's knee. I wouldn't even do the prison squats tbh. Ask @Lavista what them air squats did for his gains.
Maybe if you just chilled the fukk out and took it easy you could get back in the game faster.
At the end of the day I know you'll do what you want (as you should). Not his knees, not his business.
momma take an entire month off from any leg movements and cardio. Just stretching and foam rolling.
Son Goku
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These leggings be capppppppppppin
I don't even pay attention to leggings anymore.
Even the fat, sloppy hogs in the gym wear them.I pay attention to how them hips and them cheeks move during her squat.
Son Goku
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Ok
Imma take an entire month off from any leg movements and cardio. Just stretching and foam rolling.
I would keep it to either walking, rowing, swimming, or recumbent biking, just so your cardio isn't trashed completely.
I leave for three weeks and comeback to @Gully Bull being in shambles