KNEES! Ouch!

HippieChickadee
HippieChickadee Posts: 34
in Fitness and Exercise
Bad knees run in my family (no pun intended).

I've never ever ever had problems with mine- until I decided to start exercises. The last few nights my knees have been bothering me.

Any suggestions? (Besides the frozen veggies I have on them for 15 minutes a few times in the evening.)

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  • HippieChickadee
    HippieChickadee Posts: 34
    Thank you! I'm running too. I'll give them a few days to get their act together :)
  • clarkeje1
    clarkeje1 Posts: 1,626 Member
    Be careful! Knee issues can really be a pain! Make sure you are using the proper form and look up leg exercises to help prevent knee injury like this:

    http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/knee_injury_prevention.htm

    Also rest as was previously mentioned and you might want to get a knee brace.
  • HippieChickadee
    HippieChickadee Posts: 34
    Be careful! Knee issues can really be a pain! Make sure you are using the proper form and look up leg exercises to help prevent knee injury like this:

    http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/knee_injury_prevention.htm

    Also rest as was previously mentioned and you might want to get a knee brace.

    Thanks! :) I'll try these and also look into a brace
  • guessrs
    guessrs Posts: 358 Member
    Couple things. Always give yourself a recovery day after your run or work out, so day off in between runs. It has kept me running injury free. Secondly, ice bath after run helps.
  • HippieChickadee
    HippieChickadee Posts: 34
    Couple things. Always give yourself a recovery day after your run or work out, so day off in between runs. It has kept me running injury free. Secondly, ice bath after run helps.

    When you say day of rest- is it just from running or any kind of (lower body of course) exercise?
  • Jacqson84
    Jacqson84 Posts: 189 Member
    Thanks for this thread! A couple of days ago, my knees were burning after I'd lifted 20kgs doing squats. I need to work on my form and rest a bit!
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    The other thing you may want to consider is strengthening core, glutes & hips. It's not unusual for weaknesses or imbalances to manifest themselves as knee pain.

    Check out some of the videos on youtube or runnersworld.com such as:

    http://www.runnersworld.com/workouts/glute-strength

    http://www.runnersworld.com/workouts/fast-abs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJPb4-YOmc
  • ashandstuff
    ashandstuff Posts: 442 Member
    Bad knees run in my family too.

    I like to take a recovery day in between long runs/cardio that is high impact. On those recovery days, I still get my heart rate up by doing leg lifts and slow paced walking. The best thing to do is swimming!
  • HippieChickadee
    HippieChickadee Posts: 34
    Bad knees run in my family too.

    I like to take a recovery day in between long runs/cardio that is high impact. On those recovery days, I still get my heart rate up by doing leg lifts and slow paced walking. The best thing to do is swimming!

    I have been swimming laps everyday! Maybe I'll up my laps on "recovery days" from running.

    Thanks for the idea!
  • guessrs
    guessrs Posts: 358 Member
    I mean rest from running. You can do other exercises if you want.

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