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Lower Body Exercises : How to Do Squats Without Hurting Your Knees & Lower Back

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Uploaded by on Sep 29, 2008

Execute squats without hurting your knees and lower back by lowering the body through a comfortable full range of motion. Perform squats with tips from a fitness trainer in this free video on lower body exercises.

Expert: Les Whitley
Contact: www.velocitysp.com/coolsprings
Bio: Les Whitley is director of Velocity Sports Performance in Franklin, Tennessee. He has a degree in exercise science.
Filmmaker: Tim Brown

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  • lol he's got chicken legs

  • A deeper squat will actually put less pressure on your knees. The point at which the most pressure is exerted on the knee is above parrallel

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  • Knees follow toes! Thats what I've been doing wrong, I've had pain in my right knee for weeks and I think the problem is I was keeping my knees in too tight. Moved them out to follow the toes, no pain. Thanks for posting this.

  • @bjivner I thought bending the knee below 90 degrees put pressure on the knee joint..? When you set up your bicycle your knees shouldn't bend that far because it puts strain on them? I thought anyway. Everyone I know bends them further put they all have clicking knee caps!!

  • sqauts are a pain in the ass.

    

  • @DameCahill yeah fucking tell me about it! i did like half/3/4 squats when i was a freshman and sophmore because i rly didnt no any better. so i had to work legs so hard to be able to deepsquat

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  • @bjivner I think is the contrary. Where does all the pressure go then when you go deeper? Most of it on the knees.

  • i have been told that you should be able to see your toes over your knees when using a bar

  • Thank you so much for the detail... I had almost hurt my knees while doing this... your vid helped a lot... cheers

  • dude what da hell is your problem?! calling me a pussy for what? just cause i had your mom's that dont mean am one ya know. fuck face

  • @rfsgfsdgfdg youre a pussy.

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