Group: Experienced Exercise

Experienced Exercise
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 50, Messages: 19484

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full squats

archan
archan
Posts: 135
Joined: 2001/04/14
India
2001/08/11, 12:07 PM
Well friends I have heard that if u do full squats with heavy weights then u start accumulating water near ur knees which later has 2 be operated.Therefore ots better 2 do half squats with heavy weights.Is it true?Please advice friends.
mongrel2012
mongrel2012
Posts: 125
Joined: 2001/05/04
Australia
2001/08/12, 08:33 PM
if you do them properly then you shouldn't have any problems. Look at olympic lifters, knee injury is rare in the sport
jbennett
jbennett
Posts: 1,558
Joined: 2001/02/28
United States
2001/08/14, 10:15 PM
Pressure builds up in the knee upon lockout. When the knees become locked (at the top of the motion), that's where most injuries will occur. To prevent against this, keep constant tension the leg muscles and DON'T LOCK YOUR KNEES. Knee wraps will also help if you're doing very heavy squats.