I’m fortunate enough to say I do not and never have really dealt with knee pain. However, I have many, many running clients who complain of knee pain. Its usually just a naggin pain they run through, but who likes the discomfort and being forced to take days off from running?

Sometimes its bad enough that it holds you back from what you love to do, which is running..

Furthermore, there’s nothing more depressing than feeling like you’re regressing, instead of moving forward, especially after you’ve put in all that work.

If knee pain puts you on the sideline, you’ll miss the feeling of running – the high you get from it and they way it helps with you feel amazing, not to mention lose weight.

The biggest reason I don’t suffer from knee pain and most of my clients don’t either, is because I spend a few minutes in each workout strengthening the muscles that support my knee.  A video of those exercises are available here:

Knee Strengthening Exercises

Even if you currently don’t suffer from knee pain, the reality is you need to be doing knee strengthening exercises.

Strengthening your muscles is the ultimate way to prevent (and treat) knee pain.

You need to deal with the problem, which has to do with weak and imbalanced muscles.

The solution is strengthening the muscles around your knees.

And you might be thinking, “I run so that strengthens my knees, doesn’t it?”.

Yes, to a certain degree running does strengthen your lower legs but this “high-impact” strengthening is in one direction, which if forward and backwards.

But for ultimate knee health, it is important to strengthen your muscles in all planes of movement, which includes side-to-side and preventing twisting.

The good news is that you don’t need to go to the gym and get on machines to strengthen your legs and, in fact, doing machine exercises does not translate very well to running. Having said that, I would avoid them at all costs!

Instead, your knee pain training can all be done without going to the gym and can take less than 10 minutes a day to strengthen those important leg muscles.

You don’t need to live with knee pain or stop running due to knee pain!

Thankfully, I have a great resource from my friend and physical therapist, Rick Kaselj.  I learned my knee strengthening exercises from his manual the Knee Injury Solution.  In fact, I have many friends who coach soccer and they bought this manual in order to learn the knee strengthening exercises they should be doing with their players.

Rick specializes in preventing and rehabilitating injuries through exercise. Again, I  have a copy of his Knee Injury Solution program and think it’s great. If it weren’t I wouldn’t be telling you about it.  You won’t see my promoting a product unless I’ve tried it myself and really believe in it.

In fact, this product is a great resource for trainers, coaches, and therapists. And, its under $30.

If you want a sample of his program Click here and enter your email for access to his free report.

Or, if you’re ready to go ahead and check out his program that sells for less than $30 bucks:

Check it here:  Knee Injury Solution

Even if you don’t have a knee pain, I would suggest grabbing a copy of his program because he’ll show you simple and powerful exercises that you can do throughout the week the lessen the risk of succumbing to knee pain.

Remember, it’s all about prevention.

So, knee pain or no knee pain, you still need to strengthen your muscles and Rick’s “Knee Injury Solution” program will do that for you!

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