So here’s another knee exercise I’m sure will benefit you a whole lot. This exercise focuses on a few of your muscles in your knee area that may not necessarily be used in everyday motion. While a lot of knee exercises are developed with a focus on certain muscles this exercise is sure to strengthen a these lesser used muscles and help even with everyday motions and muscle activities. Some of the muscles that will get worked on in this exercise are the quadriceps and the flexors .

Requirements :

Actually this particular knee exercise doesn’t have any requirements. You’ll only need a ‘knee’. And I’m sure you’ve already got that.

Exercise Procedure :

  • Find an even spot on the ground in your favourite exercise-environment ( your room , the park wherever) , make sure its smooth and flat enough to ensure that you’re not put in any awkward position while carrying out this knee exercises.
  • Next lie on your back, flat on whatever even surface you may have chosen. Slowly pull up your left leg, until you’ve there’s about 45 degrees at the knee joint ( keeping the left foot flat on the ground through out the entire process )
  • Now straighten the knee of the right leg focusing on using your right thigh, don’t lock the right knee, just straighten it out.
  • Now begin to raise the right leg very slowly, stopping when your knees on both legs are at the same height
  • You can now go on to repeating the above for both sides a couple of times. You can do it in sets of 5 for each leg, and also try to hold up the raised leg and count to a certain number.

I’m sure this knee exercise has been of some use to you. You should also try out some of the links on this page to get more useful information about knee exercises.