Spring Ready Knees. Step by Step

A big thanks to Vintage Fitness trainer, Jen for her blog last week all about the DOs and DONTs of what to do if you have arthritic knees.  This week I would like to follow up on her blog and show you all of the exercises that she recommends step by step.

Half squat video:

Standing butt-kick video:

2. Wonky/Achey Knees

Symptoms: Ouch! Sometimes it hurts going up the stairs, sometimes down the stairs, sometimes fine, other times not. Can't really think of anything that makes them ache. "They just do sometimes"

Exercise Do's: Foam roll to release the tension in the surrounding muscle tissue (you'll be amazed at how the discomfort goes away almost instantly), squat, leg press, forward lunges, reverse lunges, etc. – really no limitations here if the discomfort subsides with the foam rolling.

Foam roller video IT band release: