Everyone needs to exercise to keep fit and fight some lifestyle diseases like obesity. However, it is recommended that you seek professional advice before picking the kind of exercise as well as the frequency of your workout. Here are three exercises that can damage your knees.
1. Full-depth Lunge
Lunges are awesome when you want to exercise your legs, which in turn helps stabilize your muscles. Strong leg muscles absorb some running and walking impact. However, if your full-depth lunges are done in, a manner that makes your knee hit the ground; you are harming yourself. You are directed to do shallow and jumping lunges.
2. Pistol squats
This squat needs excess lower body control and enough balance. It is responsible for exhausting your hamstrings, glutes, ankle stabilizer muscles and generally your knees. Your knee is damaged due to excess stress put on the inner knee, kneecap, anterior cruciate ligament and meniscus. The best alternative is the Bulgarian split squats.
3. Duck walks
Walking in a squad position is called duck walking. This is a strenuous exercise that stresses your knee ligaments and cartilage. If you must do the duck walk, please make sure that your squat is shallow enough not to damage your knees.
Now you know what to avoid.