09-09-2016, 09:29 AM
(09-07-2016, 12:18 AM)Scott Stevenson Wrote: BG,
I looked back and found that we had an exchange in 2013 on intense muscle about your knee pain when / from squatting.
I guess the question is - if the smith machine allowed your legs to improve and you to position yourself so you don't have knee pain (which WILL eventually catch up to you), would you hate it so much?...
There are a lot of alternative to back squatting - it's really a great exercise for many folks but in another sense (and this both good and bad) kind of primitive (in a good and bad way), when we have so many other implements to target the legs.
If you were training to build your biceps and found that a preacher curl caused you to have tendonitis - and this happens for YEARS on end - would you just keep banging away at it or maybe try something else?... In other words, why are you so enamored with the BB back squat?... (That's mainly a rhetorical question...)
-S
I am actually slowly filtering out all these exercises that either don't work for me or cause pain when gets heavy.
The problem in many cases is an exercise/machine feels great at 1st but then as you progress on with it over time it maybe doesn't feel as good or starts causing tendon flair ups. By the time your feeling this it's usually too late and your stuck with a nagging injury for a while.
Have you been there before dude? Where an exercise starts off all good and ends up with eventual sets feeling like your on a knifes edge with it? Lol where risk to benefit ratio is blown outta proportion? Especially for the needs of bodybuilding. I'm very guilty of this, but now I'm a little older and definitely had a few minor set backs I feel I'm smarter with my training. If something twangs/pops or grinds I now discontinue haha.
Matt