For all you HIGH squatters who are afraid to actually squat properly for fear of doing less weight and the so-called injury factor this is for you: "The greatest posterior shear force (and thus risk) is in the first 30 degrees of the squatting movement, with a substantial decrease in shear as the knee goes past 90 degrees. This means shallow squatting is worse for your knees (specifically meniscus and ACL) than deep squatting. To set the record straight once and for all, squatting deeply will not hurt your knees; squatting poorly will hurt your knees." If you want to squat properly squat to a low box or medicine ball and work from there.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 19:30:12 +0000
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