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I'm 5'10 and about 150-155 pounds, yet I've been having terrible knee pain. I have been doing squats with 115 pounds and was thinking that's not even that much. Yesterday, I decided to skip squats at the gym, but I was doing my usual calf routine to make my heels stop hurting. I also liked having ridiculously strong calves. Then I realized my knee problems are probably coming from the relatively large amount of weight I'm putting on the calf machine. One time I managed to push 350 pounds for one rep. Lately, I've been using 260 time and time again. I realized that's where my knee pain was coming from. All that weight is pushed up through the legs into your knees. Since your own body weight pushes on the knees from the knee up, it doesn't represent all of your weight.

I realized that I'd need to be a 300+ tub of shit to have that kind of weight pressing on my knees since some of the weight under the knees doesn't count.

I'm 5'10 and about 150-155 pounds, yet I've been having terrible knee pain. I have been doing squats with 115 pounds and was thinking that's not even that much. Yesterday, I decided to skip squats at the gym, but I was doing my usual calf routine to make my heels stop hurting. I also liked having ridiculously strong calves. Then I realized my knee problems are probably coming from the relatively large amount of weight I'm putting on the calf machine. One time I managed to push 350 pounds for one rep. Lately, I've been using 260 time and time again. I realized that's where my knee pain was coming from. All that weight is pushed up through the legs into your knees. Since your own body weight pushes on the knees from the knee up, it doesn't represent all of your weight. **I realized that I'd need to be a 300+ tub of shit to have that kind of weight pressing on my knees** since some of the weight under the knees doesn't count.

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Good advice. I would recommend both Bone broth (magical for joints) and finding a good body work person to massage them. Not a masseuse, a person who knows the body and muscles and fascia. Chiropractors are a good start. I once thought I blew out my knee and needed a new one. Months of pain after spending many months walking around on pea gravel. Turns out my knee was fine ( I swore it was destroyed and rubbing bones) with proper muscle and fascia massage. Crazy stuff.