- Knee problems, please help me...

[Iceman]

Hello,


I've started the splits since a few months now.
But now I've reached a level where my knees start to hurt.

I've been to my sports-doctor, and he told me everything is fine with my knees... but my upperlegs are not strong enough (so when I'm doing my splits, there is too much pressure on my knees).

- He gave me some extra exercises, in order to strengthen my upperlegs.

Now I'm doing the following things (EVERY day):

1) 90x squats (without weight, as I'm not ready for that yet).
2) 15min on the hometrainer (I put the gear as high as possible, to give me a good workout)
3) putting my back against the wall and put my legs ih the same position as if I'm sitting on a chair (I'm trying to keep this position for as long as possible, although I can't keep much more as 1,5min).

* The above 3 series I repeat 2x every day.

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Now my question is as follows:

I'm doing these things for 1week now, and my legs gained 9mm in muscle (so my legs have become 9mm more muscled). Pretty good, I think so myself.

Of course I want to solve my knee problems ASAP, because I want to continue my split (I'm still doing my split every day, but because of the knees I'm not advancing).
But sometimes I hear stories that it's better to do these kind of exercises with rest-periods (1 day training, 1 day rest).

- I want to be free of these fristrating knee-problems ASAP... but what can you people recommend me??
(keep training every day, like I'm already doing now... or start training with 1 day rest in between)



Thanks...

[dragon]

1) 90x squats (without weight, as I'm not ready for that yet).

Is it your doctor's recommendation that you don't use weight?
If you start light(extremely light if you wish) you can build up the weight at your own pace.

I want to be free of these fristrating knee-problems ASAP... but what can you people recommend me??
(keep training every day, like I'm already doing now... or start training with 1 day rest in between)

I would personally use medium weight/rep range exercises such as squat and stiff leg deadlift followed by dynamic strength exercises(low/zero resistance with high reps) such as lunges.
End the workout with relaxed stretches that don't put your knee under any pressure.
I would do this workout 2 times per week(Monday and Thursday for example).

If you don't want to use weights:-
Perform squats/lunges and build up the reps.Either 1 set of 200 reps for each exercise or 3 sets of 30 reps.Again followed by relaxed stretches.
I would perfrom this maybe 3 times per week(Monday,Wednesday,and Friday for example).

This is only what i would do as i know how my body responds to exercise.If you've been given different advice from your doctor,follow it.

Dragon.

[Iceman]

So it's better to do 1day training, 1day rest??

[dragon]

It's preferable to everyday training.

Dragon.

[maxattack]

I had knee pain at a certain point in my training also, i corrected it by doing single leg, leg extentions. I use the leg extension machine at the gym but only do one leg at a time. You can also try on the extention machine using light weight doing the leg extension but holding it at the top of the moveement for a count of 10, do not lock it out though keep the knee slightly bent. These helped me.

Good luck