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sorry to hear about the knee man - looks like you're being pretty sensible about it though. hope your upcoming assesment goes well!
I think the correct answer (but seldom followed) is to be always working on self improvement when it comes to form and imbalances and weaknesses. When i start doing TKEs and other band work, eg band resisted glute bridges, my squat form improved, esp stability at the bottom. Just seem to never to keep it up. Training time is limited/valuable and invariably something else takes precedence. I guess you have to be super dilligent and not compromise on it, if you're serious. Also chasing those lofty goals, ive always been chasing them, never got there, but if i had just stopped at least for a while to fix my weaknesses i would probably be a lot closer to the goals. But as always, easier to give this advice than heed it!
Sorry bout the bad newsThe blue rehbands are the suggested sleeves to get, you can get them easily in australia now, think ironedge stock them. I have held off getting them until im strong enough (for my purpose of strong enough, i guess, 2xbw raw beltless squat, or between 160-180kg). Long term if im doing more squatting, even if it's just maintenance, i will prob use kneesleeves. Better they take a better than my knees! But yeah, in the mean time i would rather make my knees stronger than use sleeves, not sure if that's smart though.
Saw my physio today. Shoulder is good to go. Onto a maintenance plan now which is just to keep the joint loose and supple and gradually build back into things like dips etc. Pretty stoked about that.
Got him to have a look at my knee. He thinks I have a minor medial meniscus tear and some cartilage damage under the knee cap. No real treatment or further investigation required but main priority is to make quad/it band as supple as possible and loosen up calf as it's probably at an all time high of tightness. Need to avoid full compression of the joint, i.e. kneeling and sitting back on ankles which is exactly what I do all the time. It's the seating position we use in Hapkido which is the same as the Japanese seiza. If it gets worse (more pain and inflammation) I can get a scan with a view to a scope. Hoping like hell to avoid that.
damn, sucks about the possible knee diagnosis. I can't sit back on my ankles for shit. When I was younger I couldn't either, we had to do it in Shotokan karate. Was so brutal, had to do it on this concrete floor and eventually I had osgood-schlatters (sp?), sucked so bad.
are they going to confirm the diagnosis with an MRI or something?
pc man!
Found this earlier in relation to the Justa method. What I do is a variation of given the 2 reps instead of just singles.
http://www.davedraper.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/29397/
niice
as for putting on the belt out of nowhere .. dno, i'm not a fan of it. High frequency squatting itself should make the bar feel lighter. Whether or not your lower body can lift it out of the hole is another question. High frequency squatting should do wonders for your back/core/etc.
If your form goes to shit after 110 kg but you still want to go heavier, you can transition into half squats.. but you have to literally change the exercise in your mind. I would also hit a "repeat" single at the last weight you just lifted deep, but with the higher depth (half) before adding more weight to the bar. I wouldn't add more weight until that feels comfortable form-wise, then it is safe to move up. But you definitely don't want to perform heavier half squats if your half squat form is crap too, that's definitely not safe. At that point it's just stay at your heaviest weight with great form (+ ~0-10 lb) and hit several more singles.
my 2 cents
pc!
