painful knee joints, how exercise?
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Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
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Could you maybe try exercising in a pool? Being in the water tends to make things much easier on joints!0
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It depends on what is available to you.
Can you get to a pool and do water aerobics, also water walking, swimming?
Are you stuck at home? Chair exercises with hand-held weights.
If you can get your calories under control and take off some weight, it will be easier on your knee joints and you can get around a bit better (hopefully). If you build up the muscles that support the joints, it will take some of the pressure off the joint itself.
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yeah you need something low impact. There are lots of pool stuff. I have one program that just has a modified move for anything with impact. I have a bad leg so jumping is not ideal.0
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Aqua aerobics would be great if you have access to a pool
Yoga is great exercise........look for DVDs with modifiers. Maybe your local library has some
Peggy Cappy
Just My Size Yoga
HeavyWeight Yoga
Seated exercise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xC9khisFPA
http://www.collagevideo.com/exercise-videos/seated-exercise-exercise-videos-470 -
Low impact (swimming, elliptical, bike, etc.) or upper body exercises. Remember though, you only need a deficit to lose weight. Once the weight comes off, you might find that exercising will be much less painful for your joints.0
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I have knee issues and use the elliptical machine or stationary bike as well as doing some yoga. Sometimes I walk at a brisk pace on the treadmill but it hurts some and running is out of the question.
Getting in some weight training to shed some pounds is a good idea too; weighing less will lead to less strain on your knees. I have trouble with things like squats but building muscle anywhere will help you lose weight faster than just cardio. Good luck!0 -
If you belong to a gym the recumbent bike is good exercise for the knee. (The bikes that sit lower to the ground) Start out slow even just 5 mins. Try reading while on it, the time will go by faster.
Good luck
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Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better0 -
I started out by using the recumbent, also look into omega. I started taking an omega oil with dinner every night and it helped my joint pain a lot.0
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I have bone on bone in my left knee currently and have had for about 3-4 years. I am too young and at the time was too overweight to have a knee replacement surgery (which I don't want anyways). I did alot of walking. Walk away the Pounds dvds by Leslie Sansone work great. You can walk in your house in place. I would wake up early and walk for 30-60 minutes in my PJs before work. I did this till I joined a gym in Jan 2013 and now do more workouts. Water workouts are great too for bad knees.
I have lost alot of weight but am still very careful with what exercise I do with my knees. I would love to run and tried it for exercise but it is just too hard on my knee joints on the treadmill at the gym.
My last knee "blow out" was Feb 2012 and that was the turning point for me with weight loss and after being obese all my life ( I was born fat 10 pounds!) I started the process of weight loss surgery. My knee doesn't hurt now but I am still careful what I do.
Good luck and take it slow. Just walking 30 minutes a day will help ya!0 -
You don't specify if you have a knee injury or just painful knees. I am 55 and when I started I was 100 pounds heavier than I am now. I thought my knees were going to hold me back. I began doing body weight strength training (NerdFitness.com) and after about 4 months, my knee strength had really improved.
Flash forward 21 months - I now lift heavy and run on the treadmill. I am up to 3 miles. I NEVER thought I would be able to do these things. have another 35 - 40 pounds left to lose.
Unless you have an injury - go slowly and strengthen your knees. You will never regret it!
Good luck.0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better
Ok, before just saying suck it up, try looking at the profile and seeing how old the individual is. Exercising is harder on your body at 50+ than it is when you are in your 30s. Someday you will look back and say, gee wasn't I just the most helpful screwdriver in the toolbox?0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better
Ok, before just saying suck it up, try looking at the profile and seeing how old the individual is. Exercising is harder on your body at 50+ than it is when you are in your 30s. Someday you will look back and say, gee wasn't I just the most helpful screwdriver in the toolbox?
Go back and read MY post. I will be turning 56 in 7 days. So, while you might not find that helpful - I did about 21 months ago. Maybe others will too. That's the beauty of the forums - you get lots of advice.0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better
Ok, before just saying suck it up, try looking at the profile and seeing how old the individual is. Exercising is harder on your body at 50+ than it is when you are in your 30s. Someday you will look back and say, gee wasn't I just the most helpful screwdriver in the toolbox?
Go back and read MY post. I will be turning 56 in 7 days. So, while you might not find that helpful - I did about 21 months ago.
No, no, I was responding to the 31 year old who said suck it up.0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better
Ok, before just saying suck it up, try looking at the profile and seeing how old the individual is. Exercising is harder on your body at 50+ than it is when you are in your 30s. Someday you will look back and say, gee wasn't I just the most helpful screwdriver in the toolbox?
Go back and read MY post. I will be turning 56 in 7 days. So, while you might not find that helpful - I did about 21 months ago.
No, no, I was responding to the 31 year old who said suck it up.
I realize that. I was just responding because I basically gave her the same advice.0 -
Ok, I realize this advice may be extreme but hear me out...
Try Bikram Yoga! Yes, it's really hot and sweaty. Yes, it's really hard and 90 minutes long. Yes, you will want to die during it for the first few weeks. BUT...
Bikram Yoga will fix your knees!!! After running for 10 years (long distance), my knees were shot and I had to give up running. Then I found Bikram and do it a couple months out of the year and my knees are so great that I started running again
It was developed by an Indian man named Bikram Choudhury after a weight lifting accident left him almost paralyzed. Doctors said he would never walk again. Never walk again! But instead he developed 26 yoga poses, always done in the same order, that healed his shattered knees and back!
http://www.bikramyoga.com/Bikram/bikram.php
Some of the poses look hard and like you can't do them if you have hurt knees, but trust me (and someone that had shattered knees when he started doing these poses) that you can do them and they will repair your knees and back
Good luck!0 -
Why were the knees originally hurt? Will they be getting better, or is it a permanent injury? If the pain is related to inflammation of any kind, it may help to seek out a diet that helps with that. A diet that helps with inflammation and pain relief (A diet consisting o whole natural plant foods, like fruits and vegetables) will also be one that's great for energizing you for exercise and helping you heal, and helping you lose weight.0
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Not sure if anyone mentioned yet ... make sure to take your omega oils and glucosamine/chondroitin, also calcium and vitamin C. Lastly, gelatin is good for lubricating those joints :-)
Go easy on yourself ... start slow and build up to a full length walking/swimming/exercising program. Don't just jump in and expect to do a full workout if you haven't in quite some time :-)
I just started losing weight and working out a couple of weeks ago and found that my knees and hips hurt for the first week. The pain has gone away now. I made sure to take my vitamins and rest days along the way. Also, Lakota roll on pain relief was my best friend!!
Good Luck!!0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better
Ok, before just saying suck it up, try looking at the profile and seeing how old the individual is. Exercising is harder on your body at 50+ than it is when you are in your 30s. Someday you will look back and say, gee wasn't I just the most helpful screwdriver in the toolbox?
Go back and read MY post. I will be turning 56 in 7 days. So, while you might not find that helpful - I did about 21 months ago.
No, no, I was responding to the 31 year old who said suck it up.
You keep making excuses for others, I will keep proving people like you wrong. What's the point of your post? Either get back to work or get a job ... There is 0 help from your post here.
OP; be the first 50+ year old to turn their life around you can do it just push through the pain!0 -
Go to a doctor and make sure there is nothing seriously wrong.
"Suck it up" is pretty horrible advice IMO. Especially when you are giving advice to someone about something as important as their knees. You can't possibly have ANY idea of what is causing this knee pain based on the info from the original post.
"Sucking it up" through a serious injury that requires rest (or worse medical intervention) will make things way worse in the long run. I "sucked it up" through a sore foot and ended up with a serious injury that kept me off my feet for weeks.
Yes - we all have to fight through some nagging aches and pains - but make sure you get a doctor to check up on things, so you can make an educated choice on whether or not it is something to power through.0 -
Go to a doctor and make sure there is nothing seriously wrong.
"Suck it up" is pretty horrible advice IMO. Especially when you are giving advice to someone about something as important as their knees. You can't possibly have ANY idea of what is causing this knee pain based on the info from the original post.
"Sucking it up" through a serious injury that requires rest (or worse medical intervention) will make things way worse in the long run. I "sucked it up" through a sore foot and ended up with a serious injury that kept me off my feet for weeks.
Yes - we all have to fight through some nagging aches and pains - but make sure you get a doctor to check up on things, so you can make an educated choice on whether or not it is something to power through.
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Low impact (swimming, elliptical, bike, etc.) or upper body exercises. Remember though, you only need a deficit to lose weight. Once the weight comes off, you might find that exercising will be much less painful for your joints.
^^ This sounds like some wise advice.
I am 62 years old. I lost a little over 90# before I began to even walk. My knees were horrible due to the excess weight they had to support. I began walking, only 15-20 minutes at first. Gradually building up to being able to walk and hike for hours at a time. I love the elliptical, use the treadmill, but don't like it very much (it is winter and I am in Minnesota and still walk outside if at all possible). My experience has been that losing the weight helped me enormously.
It is probably a good idea to consult with your doctor to get advice on what you could/should do.0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
I had and still do to some degree the same problem. I does get easier as the weight comes off.
I started out walking and just kept increasing my time. I also do at least 2 days of leg exercises to strengthen the muscles in and around the knees...that has done wonders for me.
Just google "exercises for arthritic knees" and you should find a lot that you can do.
There are several exercises that my knees just won't allow me to do...lunges always cause my knees to flair up so I just don't do them. Every couple of months I will try to do them just to see if my knees are strong enough...they are not there yet.
If you knees are just sore from exercising I am afraid that you do just have to suck it up until it gets better. If they hurt...back off...there is a difference between just being sore and truly hurting...you will learn the difference.
There are some online walk at home tapes on youtube that you might try by Leslie Sansone that I do when the weather is bad...you might try those. They helped me a lot. I am now doing walk/jog intervals and I just got back from doing a 3 mile walk.
I promise...if you just start out slow...keep at it...it will get better.0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
BTW- you didn't pile on the weight by not being able to move around much. You piled it on by eating too much. Like all the rest of us
With that being said, the good news is that in order to take it off, you don't have to exercise. I would definitely find some low impact things to do if you possibly can, like what has already been mentioned, but it's not completely neccesary. Your diet is the most important thing in the equation.0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
Yup .... start working out! and suck it up... I had bad knees and still have joint pains but I work through it everyday. I know ... I know your pains are worse right? I can only tell you I could hardly walk at one point in time and I worked through that ... suck it up and just start and do what you can ...as the weight comes off the joints get better.... **** gets easier... life gets better and better
Ok, before just saying suck it up, try looking at the profile and seeing how old the individual is. Exercising is harder on your body at 50+ than it is when you are in your 30s. Someday you will look back and say, gee wasn't I just the most helpful screwdriver in the toolbox?
Go back and read MY post. I will be turning 56 in 7 days. So, while you might not find that helpful - I did about 21 months ago.
No, no, I was responding to the 31 year old who said suck it up.
You keep making excuses for others, I will keep proving people like you wrong. What's the point of your post? Either get back to work or get a job ... There is 0 help from your post here.
OP; be the first 50+ year old to turn their life around you can do it just push through the pain!
Actually...I am 61 and I have pushed through the pain. I wasn't stupid however...I listened to my body. If I was just sore from activity...I kept pushing. If however my knees were giving out on me...I backed off.
Like I told the OP...I just got back from a 3 mile walk...I am almost down to a 45 min 3K...that is my goal. I am also starting the C25K program. I will push through it...but I won't be stupid and keep pushing my knees until I can't get up out of a chair.
You must not have dealt with arthritic knees...or knees that are so weak that you can barely get out of bed. It takes time to build them up...it has taken me 7 months to get to this point and that is with me working every day.0 -
Piled on the weight due to not being able to move/walk much with painful knee joints, any advice?
BTW- you didn't pile on the weight by not being able to move around much. You piled it on by eating too much. Like all the rest of us
With that being said, the good news is that in order to take it off, you don't have to exercise. I would definitely find some low impact things to do if you possibly can, like what has already been mentioned, but it's not completely neccesary. Your diet is the most important thing in the equation.
Yes...eating more than you burn is the cause of weight gain. However...when you have issues that cause immobility or prevents you from having an active lifestyle it makes it much more difficult to burn calories.0 -
Go to a doctor and make sure there is nothing seriously wrong.
"Suck it up" is pretty horrible advice IMO. Especially when you are giving advice to someone about something as important as their knees. You can't possibly have ANY idea of what is causing this knee pain based on the info from the original post.
"Sucking it up" through a serious injury that requires rest (or worse medical intervention) will make things way worse in the long run. I "sucked it up" through a sore foot and ended up with a serious injury that kept me off my feet for weeks.
Yes - we all have to fight through some nagging aches and pains - but make sure you get a doctor to check up on things, so you can make an educated choice on whether or not it is something to power through.
^ This I agree
I don't know why people think that knee pain is an excuse. The OP is clearly trying to do something about the weight gain and was only asking about some alternative exercises. There was no need to "suck it up" because I think OP is already sucking it up :laugh: [no pun intended]0 -
Are you taking any fish oil? Did nt read the other posts, but Fish Oil can help with joint health.0
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I have horrible knees and constant discomfort no matter what I do it seems. I have suffered with repetitive stress injuries since I was young and am developing arthritis thanks to it which is super fun to deal with that at a fairly young age.
I have been walking a lot which although can be uncomfortable isnt too painful, I have tried doing interval jogging but it seems to make me so sore that I can barely move the next day.
I recently bought an ellipitcal for my home which is amazing, low impact and I can go forever on it. Its a great workout and I almost prefer it to walking since I dont seem to get the knee pain as bad. Plus I use the elliptical when I am catching up on my DVR so I dont feel so useless while watching my shows.
Also swimming, its great exercise and will help keep those joints from taking a beating. I love swimming and luckily living where its not too cold for long I can swim a lot of the year.0 -
hmmm not sure the OP is still with us.0
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