mikescott said:I built a hiking bench the other day-man, what a torture rack! Seeing as how I am 1) old 2) out of shape in the core and 3) new to the Laser, I have started out by doing 3 sets of 30 seconds with a 15 second rest between (straight leg-totally horizontal to the floor). Plan on adding time to the 30 seconds each week as I can. I know - pitiful based on what I have read. Do any of you stallwarts have any recommendations to accellerate this at all?
Thanks, Mike
macwas16 said:Uh-oh, wall-sits are bad for you?!? I play soccer in the fall and during pre season I worked out so hard that I actually developed a stress fractrure in my tibia just below the knee joint. After a few weeks, I started doing wall-sits for 10 minutes every week night to strengthen my knees and also to help with my hiking. I've been doing this since September, so I sure hope I haven't been making it worse!
Or are you saying that wall-sits are only bad if your knees are at 90 degrees?
I had heard enough guys 10 years older than me say "Yeah, I used to sail lasers until I blew my knees out" that I got some good professional sports medicine advice. Be very protective of your knees. Avoid bent-knee hiking. Also, although it's a fabulous quad-building exercise, avoid wall-sits with your knees bent 90 degrees. On the rooster sailing site http://www.roostersailing.com there's a one-pager on knee health.
Wow, you are really young to have this. Did you get it from drop seat hiking? Funky tan lines are a small price to pay as long as you can walk!lasersailor173707 said:This knee stuff is bad. my knee has been bugging me since last June, and i finally found out what it is: its the same thing that is being talked about in the article at the website above, called chondromalacia. i guess its really not that serious (yet) just painful, so all i have to do is wear a knee brace......guess im gonna have some pretty funky tan lines
lasersailor173707 said:any suggestions for strengthening the outside of the knee? also, the rooster article said strengthening of the inner quad was important too...so any suggestions on that too?