Hi Cathe!
I’ll start this by saying that I’m so thankful for how you make yourself available to us. It makes so much of a difference knowing that you allow yourself to be approachable by all of us
Being able to get a chance to ask you a question has brought me out of lurkdom!
My problem/question is this: I injured myself back in June on my knee doing reverse lunges. Long story short, after a few months of <100% functionality (lunges still hurt), I saw a doc, was diagnosed with plica inflammation, have been to physical therapy consistently since Sept. and have found out about several different things that could have contributed to the injury (all very specific to my body- i.e. extraordinarily weak hips/glutes, extremely mobile patella, etc.) If I do one lunge, my knee is really angry with me!
I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE using your workouts but I get hung up sometimes because most of them have some form of lunges in them, and I have a hard time trying to figure out a substitution for the lunges. I was wondering if you could suggest some moves that would be a good substitution. A few of the exercises/workouts that I’m thinking of are: Hiit DWP (power scissors), static lunges (any weight dvd), the reverse lunges combined with arm exercises (like in AfterBurn), dixie cup lunges, reverse lunges in Slide & Glide, and power scissors and/or front & reverse lunges during step routines. Somehow the only lunges that don’t affect me adversely are lateral lunges. Thanks for reading!
I’ll start this by saying that I’m so thankful for how you make yourself available to us. It makes so much of a difference knowing that you allow yourself to be approachable by all of us
Being able to get a chance to ask you a question has brought me out of lurkdom!My problem/question is this: I injured myself back in June on my knee doing reverse lunges. Long story short, after a few months of <100% functionality (lunges still hurt), I saw a doc, was diagnosed with plica inflammation, have been to physical therapy consistently since Sept. and have found out about several different things that could have contributed to the injury (all very specific to my body- i.e. extraordinarily weak hips/glutes, extremely mobile patella, etc.) If I do one lunge, my knee is really angry with me!
I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE using your workouts but I get hung up sometimes because most of them have some form of lunges in them, and I have a hard time trying to figure out a substitution for the lunges. I was wondering if you could suggest some moves that would be a good substitution. A few of the exercises/workouts that I’m thinking of are: Hiit DWP (power scissors), static lunges (any weight dvd), the reverse lunges combined with arm exercises (like in AfterBurn), dixie cup lunges, reverse lunges in Slide & Glide, and power scissors and/or front & reverse lunges during step routines. Somehow the only lunges that don’t affect me adversely are lateral lunges. Thanks for reading!