I’ve been faithfully working out with FB since 2018ish, and my absolute favorite thing is lower body strength training! I love squats as they make me feel strong & mobile.

Buuuut unfortunately, last week while doing squats I felt a sharp pain in my right knee, which I’ve been observing for the last few days and it only shows up while doing squats & lunges. No pain any other time. I’m kind of bummed since I love squats so much. But I’m thinking of avoiding squats and lunges for a few weeks to see if it ‘heals’ (I’m not entirely convinced that there’s an actual injury since it doesn’t hurt any other time but I still don’t want to aggravate whatever it is). I kind of wonder if it could even be psycho-somatic as I’ve just been through an extremely stressful couple of months.

Anyways, please share your favorite lower body workouts that don’t have a lot of squatting or lunging! I will create a tag and save them there, to do over the next few weeks. I want to keep strong legs despite the knee ‘issue’.

Ps. I have noticed that I can *carefully* do shallow squats, so I suppose I could just do squats that way when they do show up in a workout. Don’t want to aggravate anything though.

Any suggestions will be appreciated, especially from any of the trainers if you have any thoughts!