This is the first in a series of episodes where I and Dr. Conor Heffernan explore the origins of some long standing strength training myths. In this episode, we discuss the origins of some common myths around squatting being harmful to the knee joint and the phenomenon of "muscle boundness".

Links to sources mentioned

Karl Klein - https://journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/citation/1984/06000/historical_opinion__karl_klein_and_the_squat.4.aspx

Peter Karpovich - https://starkcenter.org/igh/igh-v8/igh-v8-n4/igh0804c.pdf

McLaughlin (1978) paper - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10671315.1978.10615522

Fry et al. (2003) paper - http://www.luciano.si/images/blog015_raziskava.pdf