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How I prepare my knees for 8 western mountain backpacking trips per year...at age 77
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<blockquote data-quote="Moondoggie" data-source="post: 2789790" data-attributes="member: 119723"><p>Blew out left knee breaking a horse earlier twenties. Scoped. Tweaked, same knee on dirt bike a couple years later. Just always dealt with the pain. I started training to backpack the Appalachian trail when I semi-retired at 51. I used backpack weighted with water bottles up and down stairs, a 14" step up with dumb bells, and then the same with one leg fully extended backwards just for balance training. Those were my top three. I had no knee pain the whole six months! No wonder my doctor 30 years earlier said the best thing I could do was to strengthen the muscles around the knee. </p><p>At 64, I finally decided to go in for another scope in 2 months.</p><p></p><p>I will say to never train on pavement! That will trash your feet and lower legs including the knees. I realize everyone doesn't have daily access to trails, but it's worth the extra drive to find a dirt trail or even a dirt road. For my daily walks, I use a combination of red dirt roads, logging roads, and a couple logging trails that haven't overgrown.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moondoggie, post: 2789790, member: 119723"] Blew out left knee breaking a horse earlier twenties. Scoped. Tweaked, same knee on dirt bike a couple years later. Just always dealt with the pain. I started training to backpack the Appalachian trail when I semi-retired at 51. I used backpack weighted with water bottles up and down stairs, a 14” step up with dumb bells, and then the same with one leg fully extended backwards just for balance training. Those were my top three. I had no knee pain the whole six months! No wonder my doctor 30 years earlier said the best thing I could do was to strengthen the muscles around the knee. At 64, I finally decided to go in for another scope in 2 months. I will say to never train on pavement! That will trash your feet and lower legs including the knees. I realize everyone doesn’t have daily access to trails, but it’s worth the extra drive to find a dirt trail or even a dirt road. For my daily walks, I use a combination of red dirt roads, logging roads, and a couple logging trails that haven’t overgrown. [/QUOTE]
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