Hi,
I’ve been taking beginning tennis lessons for the past seven weeks (one group lesson one night a week) and trying to practice an hour or two each week as well. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting this annoying pain smack-dab in the middle of my left kneecap. It’s a small area of pain, not huge and not swollen, not debilitating and doesn’t hurt while I’m playing, but I’ve noticed it afterwards when I get up from my desk at work the next day, or go up a flight of stairs. I hope it’s not going to get worse. I’ve searched and read lots of threads on here and think I probably have jumper’s knee/ patellar tendonitis, although it’s hard to believe I’d get that so quickly as a beginner. Then again, for the past few weeks I’ve been practicing serving a lot and the left knee in particular seems to go with that, so I guess it’s possible.
I am a pretty fit person and do a body sculpting class twice a week where we use weights and do squats, lunges, etc. I also exercise about five days a week, walking in the sand, roller blading, riding my bike, whatever I can do outside to get some kind of workout in. (I’ve been on that routine for over a year, so pretty sure it’s not the cause.) I am willing to do whatever I need to do in order to keep this from getting worse but I was hoping for some advice on how frequently and how much on the recommended squats and things. Also, I’m not a member of a gym so machine-based exercises won’t work for me.
Marius, if you read this, I saw this thread
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=54661&highlight=jumper's+knee
and it seemed to have lots of good advice but I wasn’t sure by the end if Ronaldo’s routine is better for chondromalacia and not jumper’s knee?
Anyway, if anyone has input on frequency of strengthening exercises I’d be glad to hear it. (I don’t want to be a broken record with the whole knee pain thing, either.) As I said, I already do lots of squats and lunges twice a week in my workout class, but wonder how much more often should I strengthen to keep this at bay and not exacerbate it in the meantime?
Thanks in advance.
I’ve been taking beginning tennis lessons for the past seven weeks (one group lesson one night a week) and trying to practice an hour or two each week as well. For the past couple of weeks I’ve been getting this annoying pain smack-dab in the middle of my left kneecap. It’s a small area of pain, not huge and not swollen, not debilitating and doesn’t hurt while I’m playing, but I’ve noticed it afterwards when I get up from my desk at work the next day, or go up a flight of stairs. I hope it’s not going to get worse. I’ve searched and read lots of threads on here and think I probably have jumper’s knee/ patellar tendonitis, although it’s hard to believe I’d get that so quickly as a beginner. Then again, for the past few weeks I’ve been practicing serving a lot and the left knee in particular seems to go with that, so I guess it’s possible.
I am a pretty fit person and do a body sculpting class twice a week where we use weights and do squats, lunges, etc. I also exercise about five days a week, walking in the sand, roller blading, riding my bike, whatever I can do outside to get some kind of workout in. (I’ve been on that routine for over a year, so pretty sure it’s not the cause.) I am willing to do whatever I need to do in order to keep this from getting worse but I was hoping for some advice on how frequently and how much on the recommended squats and things. Also, I’m not a member of a gym so machine-based exercises won’t work for me.
Marius, if you read this, I saw this thread
http://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/showthread.php?t=54661&highlight=jumper's+knee
and it seemed to have lots of good advice but I wasn’t sure by the end if Ronaldo’s routine is better for chondromalacia and not jumper’s knee?
Anyway, if anyone has input on frequency of strengthening exercises I’d be glad to hear it. (I don’t want to be a broken record with the whole knee pain thing, either.) As I said, I already do lots of squats and lunges twice a week in my workout class, but wonder how much more often should I strengthen to keep this at bay and not exacerbate it in the meantime?
Thanks in advance.
