Knee exercises have a lot of advantages. The effect of these exercises especially as you age is much more obvious. Developing stronger and more flexible knees by engaging in proper knee exercises will definitely be a plus. Here’s a very good knee exercise :

Requirements for this knee exercise :

  • A sit or chair
  • Ankle weights

Exercise Procedure

  • I found this really interesting exercise for the knee and thought it will be a very useful one , here are the really simple steps. It is recommended that you attach a weight to your ankles ( the weights can be increased slowly over time )

  • Find a chair that leaves your thigh parallel to the ground when you sit on it. In other words the chair should be as high as the distance from your knees to the floor

  • Sitting on the chair , straighten out one of your legs, parallel to the floor, ensuring that you maintain a straight back, also try to do this slowly

  • Once you have lifted your leg and it’s parallel to the ground, hold it up for a couple of seconds ( as close to a minute as possible )

You can now bend your knee slowly and lower the leg. Through this process ensure that the speed at which you are bending the knee is slow. Focus on controlling the lifting and lowering of the leg as this knee exercise will strenghten your knee and improve flexiblility of the knee.

You can repeat the above knee exercise ensuring that you focus on using the knee as a ‘fulcrum’ .

This knee exercise like I said above will help make your knees much more stronger and flexible. You can get a few more knee exercises here.