However, even if many of us are familiar with running, we will still encounter many problems about running, such as jogging for 40 minutes every day and a little pain in our knees. How to relieve my knee pain?
For this problem, I want to say that if we want to relieve the knee pain after running, there are three better ways, and I will introduce them to fighting.
First, adjust your running posture appropriately.
Generally speaking, our knees will feel pain after running. One of the most important reasons is that our knees are under too much pressure during running.
If we want to relieve knee pain, a very important way is to reduce the pressure on the knee when running.
To reduce the pressure on your knees, you must learn to improve your running posture and make your running posture more friendly to your knees.
First of all, what we need to do is to reduce our running stride. The smaller the stride, the better. If we stride, the knee will be under great pressure at the moment when the heel hits the ground, thus increasing the chance of knee pain and injury.
Secondly, we'd better land on the outside of our feet first, and then transition to the inside of our own feet, instead of running directly on the heel like many people.
Because if you hit the ground directly with your heel when running, the reaction from the ground will be directly transmitted to your knees, resulting in excessive stress on your knees.
In short, there are two steps to improve running posture and relieve knee pain. One is to reduce your running stride, and the other is to cushion your heel when you land.
Second, do some strength training to enhance your muscle strength.
If the muscles around our knees and ankles are weak, our knees are easily injured and feel pain when running.
Because our muscles have the function of protecting joints, if our muscles are too weak, our joints will not be well protected.
Generally speaking, we can do some leg muscle strength training to strengthen the leg muscles, thus effectively protecting the knees from injury and pain.
For example, we can do some squats and tiptoe exercises to strengthen our thigh muscles and calf muscles, so as to better protect our knees.
Third, do some relaxation exercises after running.
This is a point that many of us tend to overlook after running. Most of us will take a rest after running, even though we know we have to do some relaxation exercises, we will still forget it.
What we need to know is that stretching after running is very important to us and can help us effectively relieve fatigue and pain.
Generally speaking, the so-called relaxation exercise refers to certain muscle stretching and massage, such as static leg press and muscle massage, which are all good relaxation methods.