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Originally Posted by Coldsnap 
I was being sarcastic :P Bad knees are usually related to what you do outside of the gym, if you're not stretching out your legs and doing soft tissue work around the area you can set your knees up to have crappy mechanics that will lead to injuries in the gym.
I was being sarcastic :P Bad knees are usually related to what you do outside of the gym, if you're not stretching out your legs and doing soft tissue work around the area you can set your knees up to have crappy mechanics that will lead to injuries in the gym.
Ya, I was 80% 'he's being sarcastic' and 20% 'uhhh...maybe not'
Anyhow outside vs inside gym - no argument there. I'm not blaming the gym for my knees at all.
As a kid, I used to play a real lot of indoor cricket...the best analogy I can give for non-Australians as to what that put my knees through is to think of a catcher in his crouch, and bouncing up for the throw to second base about 120 times in about 45 minutes, about 4 times a week. It messes with their knees over their careers, and it basically screwed mine for life in my formative years.
That said, the knees are generally OK day to day, get a bit sore when I run 10 miles or more, although in the warm climate I live in, don't cause me too much grief. Still, I do my best to not provoke them, and that's why I've steered clear of deadlifting for so long....still, I'm thinking the benefits may outweigh the risks and gonna give them a shot.
