"Sit To Stand" Desk = The Bees Knees

The trick is to get the desktop tall enough so you're not bending over. Additionally, you need to keep your feet constantly moving.

Joint injuries are best cured and avoided by changing your state of mind and personality.
Working in sports coaching for over 20 years I notice that certain personality type get these kind of injuries much more frequently than others. It's primarily down to posture and the way they move.
A relaxed confident outlook on life and sports challenges makes for relaxed focused movements. Although you can compensate for this to a degree by training the relevant excercises, its not as good as changing the basis of your movements.

To give a specific example: rotator cuff injuries during benching, martial arts training, badly executed olympic lifts etc, are often seen in people who are far too tense. They are so used to tensing their traps and delts when under stress that they do this instinctively at the wrong point in the relevant exercise.

Interesting idea. There definitely seem to be some analogues in martial arts.

Just dont overdo yourself. Hopefully youll be able to figure a way to do that and still exercise, somehow.

I sometimes get a similar thing, its to do with the cartlidge between the bones in your leg and your kneecap wearing thin, if it gets bad it can be really serious and need surgery, but if you catch it early enough it can be treated with physio. If you can strengthen the muscles along the thigh then it reduces the pressure on the cartlidge and allows it to heal, but you have to excersice the muscles in a way that doesnt put strain on the cartlidge else you will just make it worse. The simplest way is to simply lie on your back and hold your leg straight out with your feet 3 inches above the ground until the muscles on your thigh burns like hell then count slowly to thirty and switch legs, do that a couple of times each day and it should start to clear up. Avoid any exersive that puts strain on the joints (squats etc) or that jolts your legs (running). Swimming can be good but you want to aviod breast stroke as it puts sideways pressure on the knee joints, backstroke is probably best of all.

But seriously see a doctor, thats what I had with similar symptons, if your problem is different the wrong type of physio could make it worse.

All,

See what I'm saying? If the doctor tells me to take up some sort of lying on my back exercise that involves strengthening my quads vs. doing squats. I'm not going to do it.

Though it appears my knee is getting better. Gym was closed for the holidays and Monday is the return of my weightlifting regime starting. First a PC 200. Then I can play with other stuff.

Anyone can get big but big and lean......

I was lean I said I still had abs. Just weighing alot made me feel like a slug.

Before you do this, read these articles.

http://www.usmedicine.com/article.cf...481&issueID=41
Study comparing scoping a knee to placebo surgery.

http://www.baylorhealth.edu/proceedi..._1_jackson.htm
Discussion of the above study.

http://www.thefinalsprint.com/2006/1...ually-useless/
A Dr. explaining the downfalls of scoping a knee.

A couple of friends of mine have had their knees scoped. They'll brag about how great their knees feel. Then 6 to 12 months later they're back to have it done again. I know someone that has had 15 knee surgeries. I keep on thinking that after the first 5 didn't work, maybe it's time to try something else.

Any way, make sure you're fully educated about the risks and benefits before you let a Dr. talk you into doing anything.

tsearcher,

Thank you.

thremp,

i was curious does it hurt to ride a bike (stationary or other)?

does it cause the weird sound?

try it. i am curioius. J.

No. I have tried it. This is fine. Its feeling more stable with a mixture of time off from the holidays and some BW exercises and jogging. I've also tried to avoid blasting it. We'll find out next week if it still hurts or it'll work.

sweet.

i think that is really good news in general.

i had about a dozen patella dislocations when i was a h.s. b-baller and was going to have to go under the knife. strengthened it and avoided surgery........that being said my knee will get gimpy, crackly, sticky, and has a couple of "floating" pieces of something it in. a bit of rest and alot of biking as always rehabbed/strengthened it enough to get going again.

no pain on the bike i think is really a great sign. keep us posted and start slow with the weight bearing stuff, no body weight snatches for a couple weeks at least.

I'd offer you some advice but I usually work with folks with above average discipline.

Lazy and fat- what a life.

Thanks. But my logs usually need advice on very specific subjects and are generally a model of how some people equate their programming with their day to day life.

Are you angry I pointed out the fact you have minimal logic skillz? Are you familiar with the term "hyperbole"?

Re: Knee issues.

Have you tried using knee sleeves (even if you have one bad knee, you have to wear one on both knees) like Rehband or Tommy Kono?

No, I have not.

Tomorrow will be first time back in the gym in a while. Will report how it all goes.

Bro unless youre a midget I don't see how you could weigh as little as you do and actualy be fat. You are probably jus bein body conscious.

Eat it up! Dont worry about the calories.

Umm... I was kidding? I was the fattest I ever was. I'm not a very good judge of BF% but maybe like 13-14%?

Since I'm already typing. I've lost about 8 lbs of water/fat/muscle from that point in varying increment. The largest being water/fat.

Today hit the gym and my knee worked.

Warm-up:
5x DB Snatch
1 min bike
10 dips
10 Back extensions
5 chins

I need to break then chins into 2 sets of 5 instead of tacking them on at the end and do the biking at the beginning. I'd also like to possibly do more DB snatches in my warmup and maybe add a couple other exercises for increased GPP/volume.

3x5x135 Back Squats
2x5x135 Front Squats

Form was pretty bad on these. But considering the layoff. I'll take it. Knee gave me some problems on the first set. Perhaps I need to have longer and more involved warm-ups, but its a small price to pay. Form on Front squat was significantly worse than on back squats (pre-exhaustion, higher intensity, this should be obv) but wasn't too bad. I'm gonna try to see how it handles DLs on Wed and Power Cleans on Fri and then start a new program.

Added in 2x6x80 OHP and got out of there.

knee sleeves aren't recommended if it's the loose cartilage that is being irritated. The compression of the sleeve just exacerbates the problem. I used a knee brace for sports after tearing my meniscus and it worked fine. I wouldn't use one now given the injury I have.

So basically if your knee is unstable or maybe a little weak, use it.

If you just have a patellar tracking problem or some cartilage on the kneecap getting inflamed and irritated, double check if it's ok.

hahaha

Okay... I did a more extensive warmup and managed to put away the DOMS.

Deadlift
5x3x185

Bench
3x5x135

Bench felt weird. Maybe cause I was really tired and it was early? Knee felt pretty sound. Weights are obviously super light, but its better than if I have problems with them. I'm gonna start on a clean program next week. Gonna do some maxes on Friday maybe. Actually I probably shouldn't since they're be a poor reflection on reality. Anyone have ideas for clean related program that don't use the snatch or should I just sub in DB snatches? I hate effing with premade programs. But the snatch just has such an absurd skill component and my midline stabilization / flexibility is so piss poor that I'd probably see little to no carryover to my clean.

HYACHACHACHA Its only 15 more pounds I want. Then it'd be somewhere in the 115-121% BW clean. I'll take it.

how often do you ohs?