[at-l] Knees or Bees or Whatever

Mark Hudson mvhudson at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 16:44:08 CST 2007


It's more illogical than you could possibly know!
My knees hurt more after dayhiking than after backpacking- from moving
faster I guess.

What I can say at this point is that glucosamine is really helping
regardless of where
I'm hiking...

skeeter

On 3/6/07, Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's psycho-illogical.
>
> On 3/6/07, Mark Hudson <mvhudson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > <
> >
> > *Then our treadmill
> > *>*got fixed and so I decided to get back on the horse and give it a
> > *>*try.  First walking and then running again after a few days.  Well,
> > *>*after just three days of about 40 minutes per, my knee was starting
> > *>*to feel better.  It's been about three weeks now and the pain is
> > *>*completely gone, not even twinges.>
> >
> > I used to run (not competitively) but the crown in the road was
> > killing my knees and ankles.
> > I switched to doing aerobic stuff at the gym, and think I pushed the
> > Stairmaster too hard,
> > at least after a period of years my knees took a dislike to that too.
> > Switched to the exercise
> > bike with an occasional workout on the elliptical trainer and my knees
> > are much happier.
> >
> > While I occasionally walk on the treadmill, my knees will NOT allow me
> > to run on one. Funny thing
> > is I could run across a parking lot or whatever with no problem. As
> > soon as I start to run on the
> > treadmill my knees hurt.
> >
> > And the really funny thing - my knees almost never bother me while
> > backpack nowadays...
> >
> > skeeter
>
> --
> Jim Bullard
> http://jims-ramblings.blogspot.com/
>



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