I've been doing squats and deadlifts in my routine for about a year now, and recently I've been having knee joint pain in and outside the gym, especially when using the stairs. I decided to temporarily cut out squats and deadlifts and replaced with hip thrusts and leg press for now until I figure this out, out of fear that I might cause permanent joint pain/damage (I was ignoring it for a month or so thinking it would pass)Has anyone gone through this? What should I do? Is there a way to fix this? Or is it possible that I'm just not built to do these kinds of movements? Everything was okay up until recently, so it seems I've hit some kind of roadblock once I got to high enough weight.If this helps, I'm 6'2", 210lbs, and was squatting about 160lbs and DL was around 230lbs.
