@goliathliftzz: I strongly believe that knee and joint pain is wrongfully connected to heavy training. It’s like when I was in my stats class studying regression (lol). The professor talked about the relationship between ice cream sales and shark bites…and they were positively related. That meant that the greater ice cream sales, the more shark bites! But how are these related? Well, there’s a third variable we’re missing, which is the fact that during summer/hot season, people go to the beach more often, buy ice cream and get attacked by sharks (last week my buddy showed me a pic of a tiger shark caught at the beach near our house….💀) In the same way, the “third variable” that connects knee pain and heavy lifting is improper form. That one usually comes from lifters trying to progress to quickly, either by increasing the weight by a lot or making too many increases without first progressing in reps. So, how can we manage our squat patterns, even with heavy loads, to minimize knee pain? Sometimes changing something as simple as where your feet are, how wide you stand, or the angle of your feet can change the mechanics at the knee and hip quite a bit! At the end of the day, our goal really isn’t to avoid loading our knees. We want to find a setup we can tolerate, control, and progressively get stronger in. Resistance training itself can even improve pain and function in populations with knee osteoarthritis, which is a useful reminder that loading a joint and damaging a joint are not the same thing. Have you ever fixed an uncomfortable squat just by changing your setup? #goliathliftzz #trainhardorgohome #quadworkout #biglegs #hypertrophytraining Sources: Lorenzetti et al. (2018), BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation: stance width and foot angle influence knee/hip motion and joint moments. Hartmann, Wirth & Klusemann (2013), Sports Medicine: review of knee/spinal loading across squat depths and loads. Wang et al. (2023), Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy: systematic review/meta-analysis of resistance training in knee osteoarthritis. Xu, Zhang & Fang (2025), Research in Sports Medicine: systematic review/meta-analysis of resistance training and knee osteoarthritis outcomes.

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