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Progress Journals & Experimental Routines / Re: Recovery from quadricep tendonitis
« on: November 04, 2015, 09:32:33 am »I've also had no problem doing single leg "pistol" squats too. i just stand up on a box and go ALL the way down. anyone think this may be too hard on the knees though? i'm already making sure i drive my hips into it rather than trying to use too much knee.
ya that's the key, to drive with the hips. pistols are not an exercise where you want to lose form or shake (from fatigue/instability) at the bottom where there's not much that can protect your patella/joint at that depth. So just keep that in mind when considering going to "failure"; definitely don't want to get sloppy with pistols. That can be said for pretty much any exercise but more-so for unilateral exercises that can have huge changes in stability so quickly.
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