My knees have been kinda fucked since I was a teen because of some genetic bullshit. I never really injured them proper, but it’s been at a point where I could barely walk stairs without severe pain, even when I was young enough to be invulnerable.
I was like 30 when I finally stopped being a fucking idiot and started taking my shit seriously enough to do something about it. It took maybe a couple of years of strength training (1x a week for the first year, then 2-3x a week, lots of front & back squats, knee extensions, romanian deadlifts & other deadlift variations, etc) to build enough muscle to almost entirely get rid of the knee pain in my daily life. My knees are probably still kind of fucked underneath all the muscle, can’t really do anything to actually “fix” them at this point. I just gotta make sure to keep going to the gym.
My knees have been kinda fucked since I was a teen because of some genetic bullshit. I never really injured them proper, but it’s been at a point where I could barely walk stairs without severe pain, even when I was young enough to be invulnerable.
I was like 30 when I finally stopped being a fucking idiot and started taking my shit seriously enough to do something about it. It took maybe a couple of years of strength training (1x a week for the first year, then 2-3x a week, lots of front & back squats, knee extensions, romanian deadlifts & other deadlift variations, etc) to build enough muscle to almost entirely get rid of the knee pain in my daily life. My knees are probably still kind of fucked underneath all the muscle, can’t really do anything to actually “fix” them at this point. I just gotta make sure to keep going to the gym.