Mr. Love

Kind of new to the whole lifting thing and was wandering if its normal for your knees to bruise from doing squats and leg press?

Critical Mass

Ive never heard of knees brusing.

pushing hard

Swelling is common, but never heard of knee bruising. A lot of injuries have knee bruising symptoms; either way ice and rest could do you best. And it's up to you to see a doctor so you figure out what is really up w/it.

[Chiropractors at midwestsportsfans.com, 'knee bone bruise treatment, diagnosis']

If you push your knees when they need to heal, you might not be doing any poor form squats for a lot longer.

Proper squatting technique should not injure your knees.

[National Strength and Conditioning Association]

Critical Mass

I think I can trace my knee problems back to a training technique that I tried, but did it improperly. I usually have to rest my knee for almost a week and a half in between leg days. Oh well. I give it hell on that leg day though.

brajj

My knees are just terrible from 2 years of bmx

Mr. Love

I think I figured out why I have the bruising. When I was on the leg press today I was on my last set and I was going until failure. When I was struggling to get my last rep up I put my hands on my knees to help push it up. The bruising is right where I put my hands. I didnt realize I was pushing hard enough to bruise myself but I cant think of what else would be causing it.

Big Belly

If it only happened that once, wait till your next leg day and dont use your hands to help you. If theres no brusing it was because of your hands but if there is go see a doc...

mljoshua

You're probably right, it has to do with placing your hands there - you're pushing harder than you realize and likely not letting up. never heard of it just from doing the exercises.