Insights on the Future of Exercise and Squat Variations for Knee Injuries | 3min snip from Muscle for Life with Mike Matthews

the topic of exercise, mimetics, dangerous, future ahead that could make for an interesting interview actually make a note of that but yes in the future there will be two types of people there will be the people who get the benefits of exercise through exercise and the people who chase the benefits of exercise through drugs and so many of the world's problems are going to be caused by the latter. Miss danny ryan asks how many times a day do you think about the roman empire? Wait Rome fell when did that happen exactly because what roadways do you roam what language do you speak what monuments do you revere tell me are you not roman? Sasha Shrbach asks best squat variation for a knee injury. Box squat can be great a wide stance squat with your toes turned out to 20 ish degrees can work well a front squat that's also back friendly a safety bar squat which you can rig with a regular bar and straps you can just search online to find videos if your gym doesn't have a proper safety bar which most gyms don't the goblet squat another good alternative and maybe a split squat regular or Bulgarian depending on what's going on but between all of those variations you should be able to find something that doesn't continually aggravate the problem but if none of those variations work because they just cause too much pain then find something else you want to find something that causes it doesn't have to cause no pain depending on what the situation is it just can't cause significant amounts of pain if it causes a little bit of discomfort and again asterisking this with it depends what type of injury we're talking about but let's say it's a repetitive stress injury which is going to happen you lift weights for long enough you are going to develop these annoying nagging rsi's and the most important thing you can do to get rid of them is to not continually aggravate them and so let's say on a scale of 1 to 10 a pain scale of 1 to 10 you're looking for a 1 to maybe a 3 but once it gets into the 4 5 plus that's too much it's just going to prolong the problem and so if squatting any type of squatting is producing a 4 or 5 plus amount of pain in your knee or anywhere just do something else find something that does not produce much pain maybe just a little bit of discomfort and then stay patient wall crawler asks mike menser keeps popping up lately what are your thoughts on his

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