People often associate severe injuries with several leg workouts, especially when it comes to squats because of its complexities. Since squats can be complicated, even slight variations in movement can freak people out. 

Dr. Stefi Cohen, the 25X World record powerlifter, who turned into a boxing champion, recently revealed why people are so scared of having altered movements while squatting and injuries, even though there are no direct links associated between the two of them. Using snippets from her leg workout session, she spots why.

Dr. Stefi Cohen bursts myths about the risk of deviated movements

Dr. Stefi Cohen recently took to her official Instagram account and shared a video of herself where she is seen squatting and asks her followers to point out the mistake in her squats. Then she goes on to talk about how people often believe that any movement that occurs in your knees while squatting, running or dumping is tremendously dangerous. She wrote, “Not everything needs to be “fixed”. 

Busting the myth, she says that there have been no links found between those movements and severe injury risk. She says, “A slight amount of knee twitch is almost unavoidable even for the most experienced lifters.” Most of the time, while going entirely down to perform squats the right way, the knee happens to turn slightly inward, and as she says, that’s not a problem.

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She says, “At the bottom of the squats your abductors are going to take over and extend your knees, and that sometimes results in the knee slightly turning inward meaning it’s not always a problem.” In the caption, she even points out when exactly there might be a dire need to keep a check on the movement while performing squats.

Dr. Stefi Cohen highlights when to correct your movement 

Dr. Stefi Cohen begins by saying that it is very important that we take knee valgus and knock knees as separate problems instead of working them out as a whole. There is barely any risk of injury when it comes to a minimal deviation in your movement when you are working out at a high intensity, however, there are several stances when you need to work on fixing your movements.

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Three of the stances, as mentioned by her – when there is pain tagging along with the movement, if you are a complete beginner, and lastly, if the deviation in your movement is excessive or asymmetrical. When any of these three are involved in your movements, Dr. Stefi advises her followers to work under the guidance of a professional and get them fixed, to prevent any injury. What are your thoughts on the advice given by Dr. Stefi Cohen? Let us know in the comments section below!