What Are Knee Wraps? Why Use Knee Wraps? Pros and Cons of Knee Wraps

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What Are Knee Wraps? Its Uses, Pros and Cons
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• The final, decision-making, battle of knee wraps
  vs knee sleeves. Ready to find out who takes the
  win.Knee wraps and Knee sleeves, arent they the
  same thing and serve the same purpose?No, and no.
  It might be surprising to hear but both pieces of
  equipment serve a unique purpose and have unique
  perks and drawbacks.

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What Are Knee Wraps?
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• Knee wraps are worn for the purpose of knee
  protection and are usually worn by competitive
  bodybuilders and powerlifters (powerlifting knee
  wraps). Made of elastic, similar to the one, used
  to make wrist wraps, they are intended to be
  wrapped around the knee in a diagonal or spiral
  way to get knee support for squats.

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Why Use Knee Wraps?

• Knee wraps help you add more weights when
  doing weighted squats as they let a lifter
  conserve energy when going down during a squat.
  The energy, being elastic in nature, lets a
  person get up from the bottom of a squat.
  Besides, knee wraps have been proven to decrease
  the pressure exerted on the quadriceps
  tendon while heavy lifting. So, if you use knee
  wraps for weight lifting, your quads will stay
  attached to your knee during max effort squats.

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Pros and Cons of Knee Wraps

• Pros
• Knee wraps allow the storage of elastic energy
  and let you lift heavier weights, thus, adding
  15-30 to your lifts.
• They reduce stress exerted on the quadriceps
  tendon, which links to the patella and
  quadriceps. Your tendons pull the patella when
  you squat down. So, decreasing the tension on the
  tendon assists in decreasing the chances of
  tearing the quads while lifting heavy weight.

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• It is a mandatory piece of equipment used by
  powerlifters taking part in an equipped division
  to prevent any injury. As a matter of fact, knee
  wraps alter the horizontal movement of lifters,
  which changes the targeted muscles.

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• Cons
• You can not use knee wraps for every exercise,
  they are only used for a few specific exercises.
• While they help lift more weight, they dont help
  the lifter to get stronger because they are
  restrictive in nature, and they increase the
  friction between the cartilage and patella of the
  knee cap.

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• According to a 2012 study published in the
  Journal of Strength and Conditioning
  Research (1), the decrease in horizontal movement
  changes the lifters technique and the muscles
  targeted, and it also, at the same time,
  increases friction in the knee joint.

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The Differences Between Knee Wraps vs Knee
Sleeves

• Knee wraps are wrapped so tightly around the knee
  that it limits the knee from moving freely in the
  absence of the loaded weight. It provides
  stability to the knee and helps in lifting more
  weight.On the other hand sleeves, hug the knees
  snugly and are tight, but they still allow you to
  bend your knee freely. Most people wear their
  knee sleeves as tight as they can to gain maximum
  stability and warmth, but they can never be as
  tight as knee wraps.