I agree 100%

I crashed pretty badly one December while snowboarding and jarred my knee pretty good, so when I got back into lifting I decreased the weight on squats dramatically.

A few months later I was playing tennis against a good friend of mine who is a pre-natal care doctor and my knee gave out completely. He asked what exercise I was doing besides tennis and I said I lifted weights, with squats being part of the program.

He said that squats are the worst thing for your knees, etc. "just take a look at older powerlifters. They need to wrap up their knees like mummies just to keep lifting and have the worst joints out there. Squats, in my opinion, should be used only by women because their hips are wider than men's and that makes their center of gravity lower. In my opinion, don't do squats at all."

Anyways, this was before I knew as much about lifting as I do now and I'm sure my knee gave out because I didn't rest it adequately.

Point of story: Listen to sports doctor's opinions, not pre-natal care doctor's opinions.

I lost so much poundage on my squat after taking his word at face value that I'm playing catch up right now.

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