Squats-Knee problems

[coolcolj]

What's this? Excuse my ignorance.

Split squats are a lunge without explosiveness. What's a wobbleboard? Imagine a small board with a hard ball stuck under it (it's not exactly that, but you get the idea). By performing split squats on a wobbleboard you are training your leg muscles from the hip joint down in an unstable environment. Destabilizing your leg muscles ensures that your VMO gets blasted...in a good way of course. It also allows you to recruit more leg muscles than you would have had you been training in stable environment.


Description: Starting position: place foot of non-dominant leg on wobbleboard. With chest out and shoulders back, move hips forward and downward while remaining upright. Allow the front knee to travel over toe of front foot until hamstring is covering the calf. Pause for a second then push off heel of front foot back to starting position. Repeat. The challenge is to keep the sides of the wobbleboard from touching the ground.

Sitfit is just like a sorta small flattened swissball. Mainly used for sitting on, but works well here

 

[coolcolj]

Right now i am at a chiro for my other knee and he refuses to do ART. And, i think as a result my knee has not gotten all that much better yet.

They say that the problem is cause my spine is crushing a nerve that goes into my leg. I agree with this - you can see it on the X-Ray, but still, i need some reliefe.

-Fatty

You might just try deep tissue masage - similar, ie painful I had this done to my upper body recently and will get my legs done next. made me all lose and stronger, no more tightness!

 

[gymtime]

Remember breaking parrallel in squats takes a lot of stress off the knees. Keep that in mind when you decide to squat again.

Scaggs

Very true. Since I've concentrated on at least breaking parallel on all my compound leg lifts, I've seen some great results in my upper legs, knees are healthier than ever, and I don't have to lift as much!