Free guide · 11 pages

I jumped through knee pain for years.
Then I couldn't walk up the stairs.

The five stages I used to get from pain twenty four hours a day back to jumping, in the order I did them. Isometrics, slow squats, landings, then jumps.

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Cover of the knee pain guide

What's in it

Five stages, in order, with the actual sets, reps, tempos and box heights I used. Not theory.

Stage 01

Stop the thing that hurts

Why a tendon can't repair while you keep loading it, and what you can still train instead.

Stage 02

Isometrics

Four options, the exact dose, and why they drop your pain for around 45 minutes afterwards.

Stage 03

Slow heavy squats

Four seconds down, four seconds up. How to pick the load and when to add weight.

Stage 04

Learn to land

Depth drop landings, box heights, and how to tell when you've gone too high.

Stage 05

Learn to jump

Seated box jumps, then countermovement jumps, then a progressive return to your sport.

Throughout

The rules that never change

The pain scale, what a flare up is telling you, and what to do when one happens.

A look inside

Guide cover Stage one Slow heavy squats Learn to jump again Closing page

It's slow, it's boring, and it worked.

The version that doesn't work is the one where you skip stage one and hope the rest carries it.

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This is my own experience as an athlete, not medical advice, and it isn't a diagnosis. Knee pain has a lot of causes and only some of them respond to this. If your knee locks, gives way, swells, or the pain started in a single moment, see a physio or a doctor before you run any of it.