Weightlifting Shoes

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@mortac8

I started wearing weightlifting shoes about 2-3 months ago for all my squats & olympic lifts. Historically I did minimal quad work and lifted in Chuck Taylor’s exclusively. Now I have quadriceps tendonitis in one knee which I think is a combination of a freak stretching accident and the extra quad loading in training.

That being said, I do feel really good besides the nagging tendonitis issues. I have tied PR levels in vertical and hit new PRs in bounding exercises despite the pain. It remains to be seen if it negatively affects my top end and I end up with a blown hammy (had a very minor hammy strain a couple weeks ago).

So the lifting shoes were responsible for your jump pr’s?