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Post by meguro on Jul 19, 2016 5:44:42 GMT -5
OK, I think I understand the situation a little better. I once complained to my sempai of weak knees prone to buckling. He laughed and had the class do duck walks, squat jumps, and hundreds of air squats. His daily routine is 300 air squats a day. More squatting perhaps? I also had a partial lcl tear. A physio therapist helped me through that. Lots of rope skipping might give you tight calves->tight achilles->plantar fasciitis. Not sure if rope skipping will affect the knees. Any extra weight you do carry, does pose extra risk for the knees, but you knew that. Maybe it's your recovery routine. If I wait for the soreness to subside, I might never return to training. this is not to say that I train sore or don't train at all, rather I attack the soreness with lacrosse balls and SMR technique. www.artofmanliness.com/2013/06/13/trigger-point-release
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Post by azam on Jul 20, 2016 9:11:17 GMT -5
I don't think it's squatting. I do quite a lot of lower body work & upper body work - especially squats. I don't do squats jumps though because I was told by my current instructor (and a previous one) that they put pressure on your knees & long term they said it's best to avoid it.
I tend to put most of my effort on lower body & upper body workouts when I do work out - now I think about it I don't work my core nearly to the same degree. I do crunches, leg raises, kettlebell swings etc but probably not enough core work. But that said I don't think it's to the degree that my knees should be effected - I probably will start to work equally on my core though after this.
Do you still get issues with your knees - like random bouts of stiffness followed by times when they are perfectly fine?
Well I did do a tonne of jump rope while I'd been fasting for like 18 hours. I did it 1 day on, 1 day off, 1 day on with the extra day off every week. That said it might have been a recovery issue because I was doing well over an hour of jump rope in each session - followed by kettlebell & macebell work.
Maybe it might be my recovery routine - maybe I did more than I was capable of doing & didn't allow myself adequate rest or enough water or fluids - could have put some pressure on my knees. As one first training session back to Kudo - my legs did feel a bit tense now I think about it.
I think you might have hit the nail on the head. I don't really have a recovery routine other than rest lol. I might have to start proactively stretching and actively engaging in recovery - maybe have some sort of stretching routine I do on a daily basis rather than just turning up to training sessions and stretching/warming up - as I do now.
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Post by meguro on Jul 20, 2016 10:47:38 GMT -5
It was only late in my martial arts life that I became aware of the signals (pain usually, but also tightness) my body was giving me about potential injury, and that I had the ability to intervene. Now it's easier to prevent rather than cure or recover.
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Post by MMX on Jul 20, 2016 13:37:05 GMT -5
You may also need to work on some single leg work. Lunges-weighted lunges- pistols if you do them.
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Post by azam on Jul 21, 2016 11:10:28 GMT -5
Thanks MMX & Meguro for the advise!
Appreciate the help very much!
Will definitely start doing some single leg work - definitely will start doing weighted lunges/pistols.
I'm itching to get back to Kudo training lol - will have to see how my knee feels on saturday. Hopefully it feels firm - don't want to risk re-injury.
Thanks again.
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Post by residentrenzo on Jul 21, 2016 13:00:38 GMT -5
I'm stocky at 170cm & about 73.5kg - a bit overweight but nothing really noticeable. Wish I had that! I'm about the same height, my weight is around 87kg
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Post by azam on Jul 24, 2016 12:33:06 GMT -5
I'm stocky at 170cm & about 73.5kg - a bit overweight but nothing really noticeable. Wish I had that! I'm about the same height, my weight is around 87kg I'm still planning to cut more lol - would like to be round 69/70 again. You must be like a juggernaut though lol - so there's that benefit!
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Post by meguro on Aug 19, 2016 10:43:45 GMT -5
Not to beat a dead horse, but I just watched a vid of a shortish Kyokushin guy getting booted around the dojo by a larger Kyokushin guy. Now the little guy beefed up since he started karate decades ago so I knew he could take the pounding- but that's all he could do. He wasn't quick on his feet, nor was he flexible. For a high grade, he did not seem to understand position either because he was always in the bigger guy's sweet spot. In short, I felt bad for the guy. Mobility, mobility, mobility, on your feet and in your joints, otherwise you are someone else's punching bag.
This reminds me of a former dojo mate, built like a fireplug at 5'6" and 190 lbs. This guy was a side of beef that could throw a domawashi kaiten geri at will, and nail you with it. His Jodan mawashi was worthless, but it would be a mistake to let this guy get close.
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