Hi BBM team,
yesterday I did a pistol squat on my right leg and heard some popping noises which were followed by right knee pain, with an emphasis on the medial part (marked on the photo). I always hear crepitus while squatting deep and it is rarely (if ever) followed by pain, however I think I did something wrong yesterday as I don’t ever do pistol squats so I am not trained to perform them efficiently.
The knee doesn’t appear to be swollen, but it hurts during full extension and during flexion, during breaststroke swimming and I can periodically feel slight pops while walking. In spite of this, I try not to limit my movement and work around the pain. I can do atg air squats(for some reason without crepitus now) and I can handle the pain (I’d say it’ a 6/10 on the subjective scale) so I’m planning to continue your hypertrophy I program (tomorrow is week 6 so it’s deload and low bar squat for me).
My strategy would be not to worry too much and try and train the same way I have trained before (~RPE 8, autoregulation, with as much mobility and little fear as possible-but likely with prolonged squat warm up sessions) and see how the situation develops during the following weeks.
Could you please give me your thoughts on this?
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Sincerely grateful,
T.