Lesson #3 Muscle Development

Muscle development is part of gaining strength, building stamina, and creating freedom of movement. Don’t worry, you are not going to get “bulky” from these exercises, but you may notice that with time, you have nicer muscle definition.

Lesson #3 of our Healthy Knees Strength 4-Point Method is about Muscle Strength.

In the Healthy Knees Strength Book, we’ve created and 8-week plan that introduces the strength training in a very specific order so that you can build from the base and progress to more complex moves.  Strength training for knees is divided into four predominant areas that must be strengthened to have healthy knees:

• Ankle/Calf Dominant
• Knee Dominant
• Hip Dominant
• Core Dominant

We offer the 12 most important exercises in the Healthy Knees Strength Book and today’s video highlights the one you may be most afraid of...

Introducing the "sit to stand" or in other words - the squat.

Don’t worry, we break it down into steps so that you’ll graduate and never look back again. 

Don’t try this all at once! Start at the beginning, work on movement.  We have an even bigger breakdown in the Healthy Knees Strength Book that may help you even more.  In the book, we show you the sequence of moves that should be done over the 8-week period of our training plan in order to move ahead without injury.

Next Week: Balance Training