@SHF

After squatting, dead lifts, running, more less all leg workouts my knees get sour and feel weak.

Is there a workout I can do to stregthen my knees? Or is this something I will just have to live with?

Thanks for your help

Joe

Joe,

Since it is apparent you have been pretty active - wrestling for 10 years and competing athletically since 1998, I am surprised you are having this issue. Most of the time in the absence of injury or pathology, muscle inbalances especially with the hamstrings can cause "weak" knees. Your whole lower body works as one unit, as you may already know, and many times the weakest links are the hamstrings and the adductor muscles of the inner thighs.

The quads outnumber and are much stronger than the hamstrings and thigh adductors and as such can cause knee joint inbalances and issues when doing lower body intensive exercises like squats and deadlifts. My advice would be to dedicate a training day to do hamstrings with exercises like Romanian deadlifts, lunges, and seated/standing leg curls. You may or may not be doing this already but you may require more focus on your hamstrings until they get stronger and the knee issues subside.

John

John,

Thank you, I do try to work all muscle goops evenly. You make a good point in that the hamstrings are much smaller than the quads I will try adding more hamstring specific movements into my routeen.

I didn't start getting weak feeling knees until resently (about 2 months) when I started doing ass to grass squats.

Joe,

I do ATG squats as well and it is your hamstrings that pull you out of the low position until your quads take over. The good news is this will make your hams stronger. The bad news is these squats will reveal hamstring weaknesses :-)

John

John,

Thank you you verry much for the help and sugestions. Talking to others and studying some of Scotts videos and forms it is likely a lot to do with my flexibility as well.

Glad I have two solid things to work on now. Was starting to get a bit frustrated with myself, like you sead earlier I have been in this long anof I shouldn't be having these problems. Guess there's allways something we each need to improve on.

thanks agen I appreciate it greatly

Joe