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[QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 2985800, member: 185"]
Hey good to hear you're so active and motivated, really, it's nice to see. BUT, you've received some bad information, ask any PT.  Squats (with weights I'm assuming) cause the degeneration of the knee cartilages.  If you are not using weights and just squatting with bodyweight you will be fine. If you are using weights  even just do not want to give it up use a leg press machine instead as you will you get the same bang for the buck but without as much injury potential. Just make sure the knees do not get anywhere past 90° on the way down.

But don't give up leg extensions as they are one of the best things you can possibly do to strengthen the quads to protect the knee in particular in that they work the vastus medialis oblique muscle which is necessary to keep the patella in its Boney grove and protect the knee.  Similarly just do not use heavy weight nor lock out the knee nor allow your leg and knee to get at 90° on the way down and do what's called tke's (terminal knee extensions).
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