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Figured I'd throw a post in here... I'm 32 years old and have been dealing with OA in both knees now since my early 20's. I still look fairly athletic and in shape (upper body at least) but my legs are in terrible condition. I fell into the trap of completely giving up on exercising my legs for the most part (except some stiff legged deadlifts) and just concentrating on my upper body. But my knees have continued to get worse and worse to the point where I began to panic recently and decided to take drastic measures. I know running is a big no no for oa but I decided to use contrarian thinking and hope that with some jogging every morning my knees would actually improve. So I've gone out running every morning for the last 5 or 6 days... my route takes me about 25 minutes (I walk certain parts of it) and is pretty hilly (both up and down). So after less than a week of this my left knee is so swollen I can't really distinguish my knee cap from my leg. Anyways, I'm not going out running tomorrow and I'm gonna look for some indoor cardio instead (stationary bike or rowing machine). I was gonna do a month of jogging and then check the results but my knees are KILLING me after less than a week... brutal.
Quote from: Mike_A on February 24, 2010, 10:44:34 PMFigured I'd throw a post in here... I'm 32 years old and have been dealing with OA in both knees now since my early 20's. I still look fairly athletic and in shape (upper body at least) but my legs are in terrible condition. I fell into the trap of completely giving up on exercising my legs for the most part (except some stiff legged deadlifts) and just concentrating on my upper body. But my knees have continued to get worse and worse to the point where I began to panic recently and decided to take drastic measures. I know running is a big no no for oa but I decided to use contrarian thinking and hope that with some jogging every morning my knees would actually improve. So I've gone out running every morning for the last 5 or 6 days... my route takes me about 25 minutes (I walk certain parts of it) and is pretty hilly (both up and down). So after less than a week of this my left knee is so swollen I can't really distinguish my knee cap from my leg. Anyways, I'm not going out running tomorrow and I'm gonna look for some indoor cardio instead (stationary bike or rowing machine). I was gonna do a month of jogging and then check the results but my knees are KILLING me after less than a week... brutal.You're doing WAY too much, too soon, no matter what kind of knees you have. If you wanted to start running, start with 5 minutes walk/1 minute run for 20-25, every other day. GRADUALLY build up the run portion. And stay off the ocncrete.
Quote from: mmrocker13 on February 24, 2010, 11:48:16 PMQuote from: Mike_A on February 24, 2010, 10:44:34 PMFigured I'd throw a post in here... I'm 32 years old and have been dealing with OA in both knees now since my early 20's. I still look fairly athletic and in shape (upper body at least) but my legs are in terrible condition. I fell into the trap of completely giving up on exercising my legs for the most part (except some stiff legged deadlifts) and just concentrating on my upper body. But my knees have continued to get worse and worse to the point where I began to panic recently and decided to take drastic measures. I know running is a big no no for oa but I decided to use contrarian thinking and hope that with some jogging every morning my knees would actually improve. So I've gone out running every morning for the last 5 or 6 days... my route takes me about 25 minutes (I walk certain parts of it) and is pretty hilly (both up and down). So after less than a week of this my left knee is so swollen I can't really distinguish my knee cap from my leg. Anyways, I'm not going out running tomorrow and I'm gonna look for some indoor cardio instead (stationary bike or rowing machine). I was gonna do a month of jogging and then check the results but my knees are KILLING me after less than a week... brutal.You're doing WAY too much, too soon, no matter what kind of knees you have. If you wanted to start running, start with 5 minutes walk/1 minute run for 20-25, every other day. GRADUALLY build up the run portion. And stay off the ocncrete.No doubt I over did it bigtime... I'm paying for it right now by hobbling around all day. I'm gonna switch up to riding my bike, I gotta face the facts that I can't run anymore... my knees can't take it.