speed knee
Aug. 10th, 2020 09:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forgotten_ariaMy knees are getting faster.
One of the interesting things about getting my knees back is that they're doing pretty darn well at slow things these days (though every now and then I can make it cranky with certain movements) but it's taking a long time to get the speed back. Both dropping down low and getting explosive power. Part of that is they are still getting stronger, part of that is not trusting them for 25 years.
Today, however, my knees surprised me. There is a barbell movement called a "cluster" which is a combination of a squat clean and thruster. A squat clean is when you pull the bar up to the top of your chest while dropping in under it with a squat. A thruster is then going from that squat to the bar being thrusted into the air, fully over head. Dropping into that squat quickly enough for physics with even an unweighted bar used to be something I had to take very carefully. Today I did the whole thing at 70lbs. This isn't a huge weight, but it's be progress for me.
There are a bunch of things I'm limited by not being able to trust my knees fully yet. I look forward to when I can.
One of the interesting things about getting my knees back is that they're doing pretty darn well at slow things these days (though every now and then I can make it cranky with certain movements) but it's taking a long time to get the speed back. Both dropping down low and getting explosive power. Part of that is they are still getting stronger, part of that is not trusting them for 25 years.
Today, however, my knees surprised me. There is a barbell movement called a "cluster" which is a combination of a squat clean and thruster. A squat clean is when you pull the bar up to the top of your chest while dropping in under it with a squat. A thruster is then going from that squat to the bar being thrusted into the air, fully over head. Dropping into that squat quickly enough for physics with even an unweighted bar used to be something I had to take very carefully. Today I did the whole thing at 70lbs. This isn't a huge weight, but it's be progress for me.
There are a bunch of things I'm limited by not being able to trust my knees fully yet. I look forward to when I can.
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