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All right. We have a Q&A episode here for you today, guys.

First one is how do I not get injured while squatting?

That's a great question because anyone who has been in the gym long enough and been under a barbell

has probably sustained some kind of injury from squatting, whether it's just, you know, minor aches and pains,

the kind of nagging stuff you have when you're squatting heavy, 50 few weeks a year,

or a catastrophic injury like blowing out your knee, blowing out your back,

been there, done that on all the above.

So how do you get injured and not, how do you not get injured while squatting?

Well, quite a few things.

Where should I start here?

First and foremost, I would say, how do I want to address this?

You know, I would say first and foremost, that you don't want to squat first in your workout.

That's probably going to be my number one tip is move your squats later in the workout.

Even if you simply move them to second and you did a bunch of them. That's probably going to be my number one tip is move your squats later in the workout.

Even if you simply move them to second and you did a bunch of leg curls or if you don't have access to a leg curl, you can do a strap leg curl, you can do a seated band leg curl, you can do a glued ham raise if you're strong enough.

Any of those are good options.

Get a good, you want to train that knee flexion and get a good pump in your hamstrings. That would be number one. Now you can move

them to third, right? You could do leg curls and you could do leg extensions. That's another good

when it warms up your knees, gets a good pump in the quads there.

You could do leg curls and you could do a hip thrust. Get a good pump in the glutes there.

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