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Please share how your knees are doing and whatever valuable experience you can share in regard to quad training and knee health.
You can checkout my log for my specific training, pics etc.
I'm still within a year of a comeback from untrained. 29, and have had strings of years where I trained hard and consistent but always trained legs through those times. The knee pain I have been fighting with, has never been present. I train VERY strictly in regard to form. My biggest "compromise" to form will go no farther than rep speed. I have worked an office 9 to 5 for half a decade and it's the only variable along with age that I attribute a detriment to mobility & flexibility.
Upon getting back in the gym, I choose a hack squat as my staple. It was going well, progression is there, connection, pump, fullness of muscle. Issue is after a month, my knees outside of training became so damn sore and impaired of mobility, I had to switch it up.
Sled leg press which I would never personally choose say over a Cybex squat press is my next available option. I was using it with my feet very high on hamstring focused day but even so my knees took a similar beating. I get it, same general movement different angles, both pretty restrictive movement of the knee.
I say fuck it, I'm barbell squatting frequently and getting good at that. Its never bothered my knee but was kept to 1x per week for about 3 sets. Why? Because it hit my glutes as it should and I need more quad, much more than I do glute.
Unfortunately my squat, feels pretty good. Awesome depth, good cueing. As I start to work with any weight around 2 plates, I get discomfort I can recognize while resting between sets. I do a test set with the same weight but very cautious of ROM and I will put that weight right back if I feel pain upon a specific part of the depth.
I work around it, with weight and sprinkling the working sets through the workout. Ultimately I'm going to have to hire a coach who can review my mechanics and give guidance towards therapy.
Feel free to share tips
Please share how your knees are doing and whatever valuable experience you can share in regard to quad training and knee health.
You can checkout my log for my specific training, pics etc.
I'm still within a year of a comeback from untrained. 29, and have had strings of years where I trained hard and consistent but always trained legs through those times. The knee pain I have been fighting with, has never been present. I train VERY strictly in regard to form. My biggest "compromise" to form will go no farther than rep speed. I have worked an office 9 to 5 for half a decade and it's the only variable along with age that I attribute a detriment to mobility & flexibility.
Upon getting back in the gym, I choose a hack squat as my staple. It was going well, progression is there, connection, pump, fullness of muscle. Issue is after a month, my knees outside of training became so damn sore and impaired of mobility, I had to switch it up.
Sled leg press which I would never personally choose say over a Cybex squat press is my next available option. I was using it with my feet very high on hamstring focused day but even so my knees took a similar beating. I get it, same general movement different angles, both pretty restrictive movement of the knee.
I say fuck it, I'm barbell squatting frequently and getting good at that. Its never bothered my knee but was kept to 1x per week for about 3 sets. Why? Because it hit my glutes as it should and I need more quad, much more than I do glute.
Unfortunately my squat, feels pretty good. Awesome depth, good cueing. As I start to work with any weight around 2 plates, I get discomfort I can recognize while resting between sets. I do a test set with the same weight but very cautious of ROM and I will put that weight right back if I feel pain upon a specific part of the depth.
I work around it, with weight and sprinkling the working sets through the workout. Ultimately I'm going to have to hire a coach who can review my mechanics and give guidance towards therapy.
Feel free to share tips