From our abundant sweat glands to our Achilles tendons, from
our big knee joints to our muscular glutei maximi, human bodies are beautifully tuned running machines.
Not exact matches
Often some muscles get overused, and others underused leading to strained backs, unsteady
knees, torn rotator cuffs, and other types of
joint pain that over time can cause
big problems.
Lower back, shoulder, and
knee are the
big three «injury»»
joints for active people.
If you opt to do the leg extension the
biggest benefit is for strength around the
knee joint at the last 20 - to - 30 degree of motion.
And while not everyone has
joint problems, almost every
big dude I know gets seriously achy
knees and hips when he runs more than a mile or two at a time.
The tib post I show how to check in the Plantar Fasciitis Video and the per longus I show in the new
Knee Video — which is so new it won't even be up until next week, but you can look for trigger points under the foot there around the arch and were the
big toe
joint goes into the main arch of the foot too.
While your
big lower - body muscles provide most of the thrusting power for these movements, the calves are the final booster rockets, pushing off from the ankle
joints while the quads push off from your
knees and your gluteals and hamstrings push from the hip
joint.
The
joints typically affected are the
big toe, ankle and
knee.