Knees and cardio

[dudeincali]

Hi All, no flaming please. I have injured both knees, because of injury i have arthritis in my left and usually hurts all day, my right I have prepatella bursitice the pain isnt as bad but it is tells me to be good. I am gaining weight cause I cant do cardio like i use to. Can some give hints on what to do and idea's Thanks D

[lxorl]

Re: Knees and cardio

swimming pool!

[6p6]

Re: Knees and cardio

boxing: heavy bag/speed bag work

swimming

biking

if you want to run, run on grass or a quality rubberized track (check your local high school or junior college)

[daved150]

Re: Knees and cardio

you weight train? i lost most of my body fat by lifting...NOT CARDIO!!! stay in the 12-15 range on most excersizes (a little heavier for deads), take short rest periods between sets and add some super sets. use a thermogenic product to help crank up the heat!!! work out for an hour at a time....it will work, believe me. size 37 waist down to a size 32 in about a year or so!!! watch your diet.

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[kite]

Re: Knees and cardio

Diet first then you can try all sorts of stuff to see what hurts and what doesn't. You could try one of those no impact treadmill thingies or as lxorl said a pool is excellent.

[McKenzie]

Re: Knees and cardio

I was also going to suggest some type of pool cardio/aerobics and of course, diet is key.

[Prion]

Re: Knees and cardio

First of all: For the arthritis you should be taking glucosamine regularly if are not all ready. Its proven very effective for unilateral secondary osteoarthristis (which is what you have described).

Secondly: For the bursitis you should be working on correcting the biomechanics that are resulting in the abnormal tracking of the patella. With out assessing it the best thing I can recommend is that you put the treadmill on a decent incline and speed walk. This causes the VMO to dominate during the contact phase of your gate. The VMO is responsible for patellar tracking. Also, after anything... ICE! for 15-20 minutes (bursitis=inflammation).

Cheers

PRION

[6p6]

Re: Knees and cardio

First of all: For the arthritis you should be taking glucosamine regularly if are not all ready. Its proven very effective for unilateral secondary osteoarthristis (which is what you have described).

Secondly: For the bursitis you should be working on correcting the biomechanics that are resulting in the abnormal tracking of the patella. With out assessing it the best thing I can recommend is that you put the treadmill on a decent incline and speed walk. This causes the VMO to dominate during the contact phase of your gate. The VMO is responsible for patellar tracking. Also, after anything... ICE! for 15-20 minutes (bursitis=inflammation).

Cheers

PRION

Listen to this guy bro

[daved150]

Re: Knees and cardio

First of all: For the arthritis you should be taking glucosamine regularly if are not all ready. Its proven very effective for unilateral secondary osteoarthristis (which is what you have described).

Secondly: For the bursitis you should be working on correcting the biomechanics that are resulting in the abnormal tracking of the patella. With out assessing it the best thing I can recommend is that you put the treadmill on a decent incline and speed walk. This causes the VMO to dominate during the contact phase of your gate. The VMO is responsible for patellar tracking. Also, after anything... ICE! for 15-20 minutes (bursitis=inflammation).

Cheers

PRION

boy, you'd think this guy was a doctor!! lol

[dudeincali]

Re: Knees and cardio

Awesome posts I will listen to prion i will keep you all in the loop

[straydoglogic]

Re: Knees and cardio

i have bad knees as well...swimming eliptical and *****...

[Prion]

Re: Knees and cardio

Thanks for that. Just doing my job. Working hard or hardly working?