Edgbaston Personal Training

1. Squatting is bad for your knees. There are many who suggest that squatting (particularly when the movement is performed to full depth) is bad for your knees. They suggest that squatting below parallel puts excess strain on the patella tendon in the knee and if you are going to perform the movement that you should do half squats instead. Let me make this clear this is not true. The idea probably comes from the fact that when you squat down below parallel your quadriceps contract eccentrically and the patella tendon is stretched. Despite this, performing the movement with…