Thank you for joining me on another Cabral House call.

Today we're going to get started with your questions on a training Thursday and again I'm Steve Gruball

Board certified natopathic doctor excited to be here with you here today and what I want to do is I want to go through your questions

Just to recap our last episode on our training Thursday is we went through something called

escalating density training principles so EDT and when use these principles, you can actually get better results in less time,

meaning you can take a 60 minute workout, condense it to 30 minutes,

to 40 minutes, and not only would I say get the same amount of results I would

actually say you'd get better results from doing that. It was a short episode I

hope you tune in it definitely worth your time. All right let's get right right into it today. Today's first question is from

Mike S and Mike is asking a common question, a common question. I heard squats are bad

for your knees. Is that true? So you know it it's a yes and no question.

If you squat improperly, squats are bad for your knees because you're putting a

sharing force on a joint that is now malaligned, so misaligned, not

in proper alignment with the body, or with improper form that's loading up a joint instead of loading up the muscles.

So whenever you're loading up a joint it's bad and that's why we don't do a lot of single joint

exercise like we don't do a lot of leg extensions and we don't do a lot of leg curls and the reason we don't do that is because that

places stress on your knee joint so what we do are the big compound exercises

and that means two joints not just the knee joint it means working the knee

working the knee, but also in conjunction with your ankle and hip,

typically for a leg exercise, like a lunge, a squat, a deadlift,

or a step-up.

Those are your four main lifts for your legs and then you can get creative

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