sick man! that took awhile to get healthy     props to sticking it out. 

So this is some kind of inspirational for me I guess

really, it actually is... stay away from things that bug your knee, get in insane shape, progress very slowly with your training, and voila.

you are obsessed with a few things that could be really aggravating your knee, i've said many times, you have to let that addiction go.. i've seen some great jumps by you even in the face of this knee issue.

i know you can get healthy, just have to have fun with training, not do anything that aggravates, and focus on getting in shape/health as #1 priority.

peace

improving conditioning & moderate rep bodyweight exercises/lifts goes a long way towards improving health.. short sprints, 200's, 400's, light running, jump rope, lateral movements, submax jumps from all plants, bodyweight stuff, avoiding risky exercises etc.. improving overall fitness.


so you can't jump/sprint anymore without pain? i figured the pain in the knee was still mostly isolated to squatting, considering your recent bound videos and depth broad jump videos.


if maximal jumping feels fine then it's definitely something else.. if you do slow runs, do them on grass etc, nice and soft, lots of blood flow, lots of very light impacts.


if a dynamic warmup is really hurting the knee then man get that mri and get it figured out, thats if you have the right type of medical care.. if you don't, you'll have to do lots of light stuff to help rebuild/compensate to protect the knee.

To be frank, I'm kind of "afraid" of doing any "long distance" (>50m) sprints... I feel like my heart will blow up and die. I really think about that in my head. I've never had any resistance ever in my life... especially as I get drained of energy almost immediately because of nervous stuff (I get so "stressed" when I run that my energy just drains like rocket fuel).


I can sprint at high speeds without too much pain and I can jump maximally... it's just... weird. For the bounds, I only did them on the left leg, no right leg involvement. And yeah, I can do the depth jumps but there is pain.


That's just boring... slow runs? WTF? I can't just go to the track and see other people (Nightfly etc) train while I "slow run"... drives me nuts. I mean, I feel like my life is meaningless and shit like that. I know, crazy, but I still think that. Lost time...

Now I know, you're going to say "yes but it's for your healing"... haven't ever been injured in my life... that's a hard concept to comprehend.


A dynamic warmup isn't "really" hurting the knee but it does hurt it. When I do the knees to chest jumps unilaterally as part of the warmup, it still is an unilateral jump and land... so that bothers my knee.

But enough about me, hopefully I can rebound like Enzo here 

thx emil.
I always felt this sort of (no homo LOL!) connection too. both of us single leg leapers, both of us on the same page (you were better when I started, and your best is better than my best though) althletically.
what I've always appreciated the most about you (wit humor and english mastery come as close second ahah!;)) was your insight-analysis ability, and your overthinking attitude in general. though it can be some kind of an obstacle in the way to achieve your goals sometimes, it is a clear sign of how much you care about it.
that's what makes you special, above all the other things, in my eyes. your passion.

the best advice I can give you, from the bottom of my hart, is: fix the knee. I know this means stop training and undergoing some expensive exams. but when it's about your health, money are always well spent. And simply don't worry about losing your hard gained results. when I stopped lifting, I thought I wouldn't be able to dunk again. It took the hell of an hard work with weights to put down a legit dunk for me, so I simply thought I would have lost it all. But I was eventually able to bounce back.

stop training, fix the knee, rest, don't rush things up, return pain free, BAM!
some seriously hard times might be ahead. But you can make it. I know you will.

you have it in you man.

Hey thanks Enzo. My thinking process is to pretty much rest now in the Autumn since there will be raining etc outside... so basically I need to rest as part as my training process if you will (and if I will ). I'm training with pretty much no rest at all (consistently) for like 1 year+, maybe it's time to give the body some due respect and let it recover. I could still do core work and maybe some kind of one-leg RDL... pure hip extension, low volumes, just for the sake of it. And upperbody work, bodyweight work (pushups, pullups etc).

Then if I get healthy, and if my injury is overuse-related (it would appear so) - then I might get healthy again. I'm also thinking of switching to low bar squats and I plan on getting into that using box squats first to learn to sit back more...

I have an amalgam of things in my head... I even plan to write an article about the "perfect plan" (yes, pretentious words here) with a thorough analysis of whatever a "perfect" plan should contain from all the standpoints of training (that includes a lot of stuff).

Anyway, regarding the bounds: I think you can still do one-leg consecutive bounds on the left leg... there's nothing that can stop you since the right knee is the injured one... just make sure you're fit enough to do them so you don't injure that too. I'm doing them (I won't from now on) and I'm always thinking "be careful, be focused" when I'm doing them so that I don't get injured.

These were the last ones that I did:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXzpg-ylt9I" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXzpg-ylt9I</a>