High knees – Easy(ish) level
Can be done anywhere.
No equipment needed.
Also helps strengthen abdominals!
- Stand straight, feet shoulder width apart and raise one leg this time in front of you.
- Bending the leg whilst raising, keep abdominals engaged throughout.
- Bring your leg back down to the floor and then switch legs, repeat.
Again do as many repetitions as you are comfortable with!
You may be able to go faster than I can, as I have arthritis in the ankle I have to take care when placing the foot back down.
I teach yoga, and I’m always looking for different ideas of exercises that can help my students. I appreciate you sharing your own experience with each of the exercises. It helps me understand the challenges that people with arthritis are facing and tailor my practices better for them. Also, I like that you encourage people to not over-train – that can cause more harm than good!
Hi Andrea thank you for reading and commenting! I am glad you have found the article useful and yes it’s always important not to push past your limits especially when suffering with arthritis.
It will also be easy for me to add this to exercise two.
This is getting more fun than expected!
Hi Tohin I’m glad you are finding these useful and that you can easily incorporate them in to your daily routine.
Keep us posted on how you get on and as always thank you for reading and commenting!