Spartan301

After reading another thread...

Thought I would see what different ways guys on here with prohibitive injuries train their legs to stimulate growth.

I tried ignoring my old knee injury for ages when training legs and just squatting heavy etc like everyone else. Until a friend of mine taped my squats in the gym and played it back to me, right leg was all over the place way too much lateral movement in the right knee.

So recently have been training legs really light and slow with full range of movement hoping to build up the stabilising muscles and get back to good weights.

So what about anybody else?

Spangle1187

My right knee and my back give me jip when I up the weights on squats so I have come up with the following:

Walking Lunges, Front Squats (light and slow), leg press with these I ( so far ) have been adding weight with no problems.

Have only started this recentley so not a full progress report yet but so far so good.

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Spartan301

have tried doing lunges but find that my knee feels unstable when going that far forward.

dudeson

for me lunges are a no no. I have had 4 knee surgeries and my patela (sp) on my right knee always hurts when it is over extended, I used to do heavy squats, front squats, hack squats heavy weighted lunges, power cleans, you name it. Now, after years and all that beautiful muscle gone, I have put on several inches in the last year by doing cybex machine or leg press, leg extensions , and leg curls. The cybex machine, rolls on a pivot rather than sliding up and down like a normal leg press, it's pretty new and is so much better than normal leg press, it takes alot of pressure off the joints and puts it on the legs, and for leg extensions, I always flex at the top and try to hold it for a second, then slowly lower it, this helps with the eccentric strength and improves my joint strength, Same with the leg curls, I blast it up, and slowly lower it down, that negative resistance is where I get lots of burn. And I always warm up thoroughly. 10 minutes on a bike, which is great for getting full range of motion, and to improve the joint function I stand on a bosu ball, which has a hard plastic bottom and half of a fitness ball on the top, I stand one-legged on that for 2/3 sets of 30-45 seconds each leg, then I try standing on the edge of something about 4-6 inches off the ground, stand on one leg on the edge, with the foot parrallel to the edge and dip down keeping the free leg straight and squat down and barely touch the ground, this is supposed to help my patella strength improve, 2/3 sets of 12 each leg. I always warm up with this before presses and extensions. Plus riding my bike a lot, which is recommended for bad knees, has made my quads bigger, look at pro bike riders, their legs are yoked, and Ice after training, Plus glucosamine+condroidin supps, twice aday , and lots of water will lube up your knees, and other joint good.