: Right knee hurts on squat When I squat in athletics my right knee hurts on the inside and sometimes when we max out or something my knee will hurt all day. If weight and load are needed, I weigh 105 lbs and squat 185 lbs.

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There's quite a lot that could be going slightly awry, I'd highly recommend working through:
www.mobilitywod.com/2011/05/episode-253365-knee-pain-case-study.html
and
www.mobilitywod.com/2011/09/episode-318365-knee-pain-on-stairs-or-hills.html
I suspect you'll be able to self-diagnose using these posts.

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You most likely have poor hip mobility and activation. Inside knee pain can be associated more with adductor tightness/hip external rotation, you should be stretching those anyway.

Here are the steps to directly improve symptoms when training

Stop doing movements that cause pain.
Do dynamic and static stretching before every workout.
Do a light cardio warm up before hand to increase internal temperature, increase circulation and warm up joint synovial fluid.
Do plenty of warm up reps with little to no weight and slowly ramp up (155 -> 185lbs is 20% increase, too much for hitting a max, try something like 155, 175, 185)
Do box squats instead of free squats.
Do slow negatives (Come down slowly, 2 second count is fine on squats) and don't bounce. When you drop quickly the tendons, ligaments and other tissue have to use more force to decelerate and reverse the weight. Imagine a car collision at 10mph vs 80mph. So control the weight down.

For overall the knee health, I recently wrote an article on dealing with knee pain.

Some main points:

Daily low intensity activity is essential.
Regular foam rolling.
Increase flexibility by stretching common tight areas such as the adductors, IT band, hip flexors (Psoas, Iliacus), and hamstrings.
Improve ankle mobility and flexibility.
Make sure knee is in line with your feet and doesn't bow inwards. Usually has to do with adductor length.
Do more single leg movements! Start with in place lunges, master those and move on to more advanced movements.
Improve glute and hip activation by doing glute bridges, just make sure to use your glutes and not your lower back on those.

That should help a lot!

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Without more info this is difficult to say. But I used to experience this same sort of pain and it was due to a muscle imbalance. Though I am right handed I am left leg dominant and my vastus medialis on my right leg was much smaller than on my left. My vastus lateralis on both legs, however, were pretty well developed (my squat stance is wide so my hips are strong). This caused the tendon on my knee to pull a little to the right giving me pain that was the equivalent to "Runners Knee". I corrected this by performing additional leg exercises to strengthen my right leg with emphasis on the vastus medialis. The first two things I would suspect are form and muscle imbalance.