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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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Just do bodyweight exercises. Professional weight lifters dont live very long. Leave weightlifting to the heavier guys that can't do cardio.

Squat jumps. Burpees. Pulls ups. Push ups. Bicycle crunches. Any coordinated full body high energy exercise will do. No need to blow your knees out attempting to carry weight that your body wasn't designed to carry. Otherwise you're going to end up like those Zogbots that come out of the military with grandma knees and lower back.

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Yeah, I am seeing now that I need to do lighter and longer. I already have a shoulder injury and my lower back hurts if I lift too much with it. I avoid heel impact stuff, because of a heel pain problem. Calf weight lifting is the most helpful thing for my heels. It really makes them stop hurting; although, I've read that really you just need calf stretching. I get a good stretch while lifting weights. I just got too extreme with the progress. I like having super strong calves, though, because you can use them to walk faster if your body weight is nothing to them.