Box squats.
Back to the bar and even put 2 x 10kg plates on the box, so probably 14".
Left knee is not happy. Tension and pain build up on the inside until about 4" above parallel and then it clicks and all is right, same on the way up. That's the best version. The worst sees it collapse as it clicks.
It's all about quad dominance still dammit. My right leg is fine, but the left hip rotates in and the hamstrings don't grab and the knee just goes all over.
I noticed it walking up stairs, right leg fine, left leg limping jump up to get pas that clicking point. If I concentrate I can get the left hip and knee to work correctly, but let my focus slip even a little and it's back to the habitual pattern. So I'm trying doing step-ups a few times during the day to get the awareness going. First day so I have no idea if this is going to work. I hope so, I'm sick of fixing one movement pattern and then finding that I've exposed a deficiency in another. I don't think a single major joint functions the way it's supposed to, I've been an assembly of poorly joint stability and incorrect muscle recruitment for decades. Why wasn't CrossFit around when I was in school to teach me how to move dammit.
Or I wish I'd taken dance lessons like I wanted to.
This is the hand I have, I'll play with the cards I've been dealt. Enough grizzling.
If only it don't bloody hurt though! :-)
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Hi,
I may be speaking out of turn but have you checked to see if you have Morton's Foot?
I have recentley found out that I have and half the population may have without knowing it - it's a just thought as it's answered lots of my problems.
http://www.mortonsfoot.com/pain.html#lmenu4
Hope it helps
No, that's fine. And thank-you.
I have fairly significant problem with pronation and I had a fancy and very expensive pair of custom orthotics made. I recently threw them away as I wasn't any better with them than without and I decided that I wanted to find a way to live without the props. I had been a massive heel striker while running so I'm working on that. I attend a Pose clinic with Dr. Romanov himself this weekend! I've also realised that my very sedentary job is doing more than ruin my back; it's also given me classic Upper Cross Syndrome (rounded shoulders in the old-fashioned terminology) and totally ruined my ability to stabilise my left hip. My right isn’t brilliant either, but the left is really out of position which messes my knee up.
Getting that hip sorted out is becoming very important to me, hence the step-ups and other weird things I’m trying.
I’m my own little project in re-hab.
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