Mon, Oct-21-02, 09:45
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Plan: lots of meat
Stats: 00/00/00
BF:goal: 17%
Progress: 41%
Location: Germany (Canadian abroad)
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Just my two cents about the knees, I've always had knee probs and they're better right now than they've ever been.
Try a technique called KLT which stands for Knee to Little Toe. No matter what you do - workouts, standing at the kitchen sink, walking up a flight of stairs anything!
Make sure your feet are pointing straight forward about hip width apart (not out to the side), and your knee is aimed toward your little toe rather than pointing inward. Your stomach is tight, and your back is straight (not arched so that your butt sticks out, a position many of us women use to look sexy). You want your shoulders in line with your hips, so stick your chest out and up, and tighten that stomach.
Another position that is common, is that the abdomen sticks out while the shoulders are actually behind the hips when you look in a mirror sideways, and the chest is concave with the shoulders rounded forward. Keep the shoulders back and down, and the chest sticking up.
It might feel as if you're making yourself bowlegged at first, but believe me it really prevents knee pain, and it is so important that you use those thigh muscles to prevent the knee from pointing toward your big toe.
Obviously in certain exercises your feet are angled outwards, but besides those try using this technique all the time and you will notice a huge difference in how your body feels. You'll look slimmer too.
Take care!
Meg
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