welcome man
interested to see the 'sense of humour' they didn't get.. for what it's worth, the topic you picked for your intro is funny, office space ftw.
Thanks, glad someone can pick up on the Office Space quote. I can't read a sentence starting with 'yeeaahhh' without thinking about Bill Lumberg. Even his annoying voice comes into my head at that exact time.
The lumberg sex scene (in the dream) was the best, shit still has me lol'n.
what's up with your knees?
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Well, after 5 different knee surgeries, and early effects of severe arthritis. And currently dealing with a stress fracture in my right knee cap...again, I simply cannot perform lately. On the court or in the weight room. It's really affecting the way I play. I'm not the most athletic guy, but typically I'm the only guy that combine any kind of skill and athleticism, but lately, that athleticism has been non-existent thanks to my knees, especially my right one with the stress fracture. I've been taking weeks at a time off to give it time to heal (I'm not playing again until the 2nd week of January), but the problem with that is I don't know how to properly strengthen and train my legs without putting any stress on my knees. I can't squat, I can't do heavy knee extensions because of the amount of stress it puts on my kneecaps and their lack of cartilage in there.
holy shit..........
damn sounds like you really need to be careful.. If you aren't going to train "knee bends", I would look into EMS, though I'm not sure how effective home bought versions can be on strengthening the quads.
As for "less stressful knee exercises", you're looking at alot of floor variations:
- glute bridges (double and single leg)
- prone glute
- prone hyper
- supine hamstring iso (various degrees of knee flexion, just holding position, hits hams hard)
- supine hip extensions (stiff legged, feet on box)
As for weighted exercises that don't put much stress on the patella, you're looking at:
- reverse hyper
- RDL
- leg curls (standing, seated, whatever)
- POSSIBLY ghr..
- some stuff on 4-way hip machine
stretching too much can actually become a problem, if the muscles of the quads stop firing correctly, need to make sure VMO is firing good and before the VL.. floor based tke's (last 15 degrees, terminal knee extension), partner assisted, or very light tke on a leg extension can help to get that vmo firing but you definitely don't want to mess with that stress fracture.. once that stress fracture heals you'll need to build some strong/active vmo's to protect the patella.
any idea how you actually got this stress fracture? I mean is it just from jumping too much? When did you "feel" it occur? Any ideas on that?
I need to find new ways to strengthen, without stressing my knees/legs before it's too late for me to come back from all of this.
I'll have plenty of time to start working out after the holidays as I just picked up a 2nd job (1st job is window cleaning, but that's so slow during the winter) and I'll be running my school's new campus weight room...so literally, it can be my job to work out if I want to.
I'm open to any and all suggestions. The things I'm doing right now are basically just yoga and stretching. I've heard you can lessen the stress on your knees if you're more flexible, and I can definitely use more flexibility. Also, bought and started using a foam roller per Lance's suggestions on VF's forum; still getting used to that. Any help is much appreciated.
i switched from VF over here. It is alot more active and got a great sense of humor, you'll fit in bro
Thanks dude. Did you end up getting banned again from VF? haha.
