heavy leg extensions bad for knees?

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Derelict
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heavy leg extensions bad for knees?

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Howdy fellow weight-lifters! I have been doing leg extensions for going on 11 weeks now. When I started I was at 145, now Im at 210. The problem is, when I rached around the 180+ area I would feel some pain in knees the next day. Ever since its the same thing. I feel pain the next day, but the day after I'm fine.

routine consists of 1 set per exerice to temporary muscular failure. I do 8-12 reps each set. With leg extensions I usually fail at 12. Now I don't want to be damaging poor little knee caps. Originally I'd brush it off as simply being regular aches and pain after a workout, but doing this workout for so long I haven't become sore for weeks. May the Lord have mercy on knees. :cry:
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veryveryverybad
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more good news, guess I'm dropping leg0-extensions :*(
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