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Sarah M.Week 3 · knee

“Front-of-knee pain on squats today. Load it or back off?”

Do this

Load it isometrically first — five 45-second mid-range holds at roughly 70% of a max effort, then squat only to a depth that keeps pain at 3/10 or under.

Why

Isometric holds drop patellar-tendon pain immediately and reduce motor inhibition, so she trains rather than skips Rio et al. 2015. Tendon needs load; rest alone weakens it.

Watch for

Pain past 3/10, or stiffness worse 24h later — drop a step. Night pain, swelling, or a knee that gives way: stop and refer out.

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Under the answer

Every answer opens into the studies behind it. Authors, journal, year, PubMed.

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Isometric exercise induces analgesia and reduces inhibition in patellar tendinopathy.

Rio E, Kidgell D, Purdam C, et al.Br J Sports Med2015

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The safety model

Three outcomes, and only one of them is “train it”.

Nothing contraindicated. Train the plan as written.

Modify & monitor

Managed conditions get a conservative version — controlled hypertension gets adjusted loading and rest, not a refusal.

Stop & refer

Genuine red flags end the session and route the client to a clinician. Named, not implied.

Programs

Multi-week programs arrive as drafts. You approve, edit, or reject — the plan is yours.

Sarah M. — return to loaded squatDraft

Wk 1–2Isometric loading · wall-sits, split-squat holds4×/wk

Wk 3–4Heavy slow resistance · tempo squat, leg press3×/wk

Wk 5–6Return to depth · back squat, loaded carries3×/wk

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Nothing is final until you sign off. Approve, edit, or reject — and when you ask for the next block, it builds on the program you approved rather than starting over.

The corpus

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