Treating Jumpers Knee Pain through Squats

A Fast Fix for Jumpers Knees

Another great method to treat jumpers knee pain are squats.

You are ready to do squats when you can do Peterson Stepups up and down for 70 seconds in a set for each leg, alternating legs for 3 total sets each leg, from the height of a platform roughly at the bottom of your kneecaps. At this point, you want to switch to squats. Grasp a dumbell in each hand and spread your feet about shoulder width apart(see figure below). Point your feet slightly out, in lie with your knees. Slow and controlled, bend your knees and lower your hips as far as comfortable as shown in the second figure, then straighten your legs o return to the start.

Do 3 sets of 10 starting with 40% of your body weight for men and 30% of your bodyweight for women and all young lifters age 16-18. Do twice per week. As you get stronger, try to increase weight 10% each month.

Remember to keep doing the hamstring exercises, and increasing resistance likewise, to keep your quads and hamstrings balanced in strength.

Weighted Squats

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