Rock Solid Knees

Over the years of training athlete's I have always noticed that they all had reoccurring knee problems. Most of the pain was located in the anterior portion of the knee. I have found a way to alleviate the pain by strengthen the muscle's around the knee cap with an exercise called terminal knee extension's or TKE's. This is a great exercise that should always be done on your athlete’s lower body days. If your athlete is experiencing more pain then have him do them on their upper body days as well. Add these into your athlete's warm up routine for 2-3 sets of 12-15 reps and watch your athlete's anterior knee pain vanish. There are many variations to this exercise and all of them are great the method we prefer is to girth hitch a light band around your squat rack and put the band slightly above your knee cap. Walk it out until there is a pretty good bit of tension on it. Bend your knee that has the band around it and squeeze it back down. Make sure you leave your foot flat on the ground during the whole movement. Here is a video that will help you see what I am talking about.