Guest guest Posted January 14, 2008 Report Share Posted January 14, 2008 Hi Tamara, Squats and lunges can definitely aggravate sore knees. Be sure that when you do them that your knee doesn't go beyond your toe or better yet,l your ankle. For squasts, the workout is in your butt going back, not the knee going forward. For plie squats, stand tall (not butt back), turn out the toes to about 2:00 and 10:00 (left and right respectively) and then go down. Again, make sure your knees don't go beyond the ankle. For lunges, same thing, knees not beyond toe or ankle. To modify, just don't go down as far, or better yet, activate a lot of the same muscles by doing bridge lifts instead. To do a bridge lift: Lay on your step, upper back on bench, hold the rest of your body up with your legs. Put a weight if need be on your pelvic area. Sink lower body down, and push up with the glutes and quads. HTH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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