How To Fix Your Knee Pain
Lance Codner • March 3, 2020
Don't Break The Imaginary Glass
Knees! They can be frustrating to deal with if you have ongoing pain or constant discomfort. A common factor that leads to knee pain is improper loading on the knees.
Improper loading can be greatly changed by improving how your knee tracks, and your hips and ankles play a major role in this. To help those of you who experience knee pain while training, here are a few cues you can try that have shown to be very helpful for our members:
Don’t Break the Imaginary Glass
◽ lmagine there is a glass shield from the crease of your big and second toe, that travels vertically up to just the medial side of the knee.
◽ When performing exercises that require knee bending, your goal is to picture this glass shield and not allow your knees to collapse in and break the glass.
◽ This will help to keep the movement more hip focused and take unnecessary load off the knees.
Keep a Stable Foot
◽ Shifting unequal load on to the forefoot, or onto the heel of the foot can hinder our overall balance and stability with an exercise.
◽ This can also lead to unwanted load on our knees because our feet are not properly grounded while performing movement.
◽ For this cue focus on keeping the pressure at the bottom of your feet equally distributed between the forefoot and your heel.
◽ A great way to practice this is to think about gripping the floor. Like if you were to pick something off the floor with your foot.
◽ Try adding these cues to your workouts and let us know if they helped.
◽ We do want to mention that knee pain can arise for many reasons. We suggest that you always seek professional medical advice to make sure you are clear to exercise before trying these exercises and cues.
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