Knees hurt

[speakeasy]

I don't know if I'm just getting old or what it is, but I'm increasingly noticing that it's a struggle to get up from a squatting position. Like last night I had squatted down to get something from a lower bookshelf and found myself groaning to stand back up which I would normally do just by thrusting myself upwards. Now I'm finding that I increasingly have to grab on to something with my hands and pull myself up. Sometimes I even notice it just getting out of my car or if I try to insert my foot into my shoe and push my leg forward to fit it on, it's hurts. And the hurt isn't coming from the bone it doesn't seem like. I don't know if it's my tendons or if my muscles have simple become weak in that area. This morning I tried sitting in an ass to the grass squatting position and then standing back up, at first I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do it, and when I did, I was groaning. I've been doing squats at the gym all last year(though I admit they were not ass to the grass squats and at most i'd have maybe 130-140lbs for 3 sets). I also do a lot of cycling which definitely works the legs so I don't know why my legs are feeling like jello.

Is this normal for a 32 year old? I feel like I have old man's knees or something.

 

[dj_jazzybrad]

I don't know if I'm just getting old or what it is, but I'm increasingly noticing that it's a struggle to get up from a squatting position. Like last night I had squatted down to get something from a lower bookshelf and found myself groaning to stand back up which I would normally do just by thrusting myself upwards. Now I'm finding that I increasingly have to grab on to something with my hands and pull myself up. Sometimes I even notice it just getting out of my car or if I try to insert my foot into my shoe and push my leg forward to fit it on, it's hurts. And the hurt isn't coming from the bone it doesn't seem like. I don't know if it's my tendons or if my muscles have simple become weak in that area. This morning I tried sitting in an ass to the grass squatting position and then standing back up, at first I wasn't sure if I'd be able to do it, and when I did, I was groaning. I've been doing squats at the gym all last year(though I admit they were not ass to the grass squats and at most i'd have maybe 130-140lbs for 3 sets). I also do a lot of cycling which definitely works the legs so I don't know why my legs are feeling like jello.

Is this normal for a 32 year old? I feel like I have old man's knees or something.

I am an avid cyclist and have the same problem, and im only 18. It started when I was 16. Its still there and just as bad. After seeing doctors, they deduced that it was a lack of cartilage in the knee. Physical therapy didn't help, neither did excersize. The only thing that helps is taping my knee caps in a certain way when i excersize, or wearing a leg brace.

Do your knees creak? Mine creak and grind very audibly sometimes.

 

[speakeasy]

Do your knees creak? Mine creak and grind very audibly sometimes.

Yes! I sure do feel that at times, though it's worse some times than others, but I've often thought I wish I could oil my knee joints. Hmm, so you may have the same issue as me. I wonder if the cycling is what caused it...

 

[dj_jazzybrad]

Yes! I sure do feel that at times, though it's worse some times than others, but I've often thought I wish I could oil my knee joints. Hmm, so you may have the same issue as me. I wonder if the cycling is what caused it...

hmm, I dont know about you, but mine DONT hurt when I bike; they only hurt when i run or put lots of vertical jarring motion onto it. Try this: get one of thsoe elastic knee braces that has a hole for the kneecap. If you can't, just use athletic tape and tape around your kneecap, pressing into the skin, so that the kneecap stays in place.

 

[speakeasy]

Same here, I don't have any problems biking or I wouldn't do it so much. But any **** like lunges, even without weights just kills me.

 

[Kuroro]

Work on hip and ankle mobility. When you squat, push through your heels and keep your knees from bending inwards.