Top 10 Leg Exercises For Bad Knees | How To Exercise WITHOUT Knee Pain

Building leg strength is key to solving knee pain. But knee pain can make it hard to build leg strength. In this video, Dr. Baird demonstrates the top 10 leg strengthening exercises that are both SAFE and EFFECTIVE for fixing bad knees.

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As a chiropractor and strength coach for adults 40+, I work with adults 40+ to solve knee pain on a daily basis. Many exercise videos and programs throw you right into exercises that are too challenging and can actually make your knee pain worse.

Knowing how to build strength WITHOUT stressing your joints will help you reach your goals faster. In this video I show you the top 10 leg exercises for bad knees, starting with the easiest and building to the most challenging.

(0:43) Sit To Stand
(1:46) Toe Taps
(3:00) Wall Sits
(3:31) Single Leg Step Ups
(5:03) Suitcase Carry
(5:59) Box Squat
(6:37) Banded Hip Hinge
(7:33) Kettlebell Deadlift
(8:20) Squat Holds
(9:06) Lunge Variations

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[Tee-kktj]

I’m bone on bone with osteoarthritis & my orthopedist says NO surgery due to my age being too young. I just started with a trainer & he knows I have bad knees. He’s had me doing the 1st few exercises & I thought he didn’t know what he was doing so I came to YouTube & found you! Thank you! I feel much more secure now with my personal trainer.

[Tiger.]

Ex-catcher through college who also has accumulated grade 2 tears in 2 ligaments in both knees (half my ligaments!) and really feeling worried about the future as I turn 40 and the lower back is even worse than the knee pain. I'm seeing some great ideas in this that I should adopt in my "try to set myself up to still be able to walk without a walker when I'm 80+" routine that I desperately need to figure out.

[jimbeshaw]

thanks for the demonstration, I had a bi lateral patellar tendon rupture, both knees are shot and weak. they give out from time to time, really struggle with walking down a slopped surface

[tambilepley]

thank you I have struggled to find the right exercise for both my knees at 55 this seems good about to do 20 each need to get a block to step on thanks

[RichardT]

This was awesome. I have bow legs especially in my right knee. It's gotten better. But every once in a while I aggravate it. Going to use this from exercise 1 to 10 and see what happens

[rikobiko]

Thank you - this is so helpful! Question - should I be concerned with the crunchy sounds in my knees? I just recently had my first knee issue - swelling in one knee that I've rehabbed quite successfully (after getting a cortisone shot and drawing some fluid off it - had MRI that just showed arthritis + "possible meniscal tear" but dr. thought it was mainly just arthritis) - but my one leg flexes about 1" less muscle than the other so I'm trying to build quad/leg strength back. All these exercises are great - really helpful video thank you! --- but man, the crunching is so loud! Should I be concerned? Thx!

[ammy]

Such an informative video!! Just the right stuff for anyone with knee pain and wants to exercise but is limited by the pain!

[LifeLessons]

Really helpful!! I have a torn ACL and it help me a lot

[cmb]

This would be great if you don't have bad knees. I can't move my knee at all without sharp pain

[Kittykittyviiauttp]

OMG even the first one made me wince in pain thinking about it.

[jeanmulqueeney]

Brilliant! Just what I was looking for. ❤

[lv]

I pulled my knee doing yoga a week ago. Very slight swelling, no pain. I am doing leg strengthening exercises, but could you tell me if cycling and running are bad or good during this recovery process? Thank you!

[lauragoingfit]

These are great. How many reps do you recommend starting with if someone is really out of shape?

[HanyBandar]

Thank you for informative video sans condescension, how many reps per exercise ? & how often should you commit to these exercises per week to maximize muscle strength? Lastly any recommendations for stretches ?

[mgphotos]

great video!! recommended sets and reps? thank you!

[janoskatona]

Thank You very much, these are really useful tips! If you will make videos in a little better quality and start to cut your videos a little more professionally, making some spectacular highlight texts in your videos as the competition in the training videos, your views will grow 100x and you will absolutely deserve it! Thank you and keep up the good work!

[navdeepsingh]

Can we do these exercises with chdromalacia on both knees, have pain when I run sometimes, should I wait for that pain to be gone with rest, then start these exercises ? Pls tell 🙏🏻,

[rickcarrasco]

OK so I hurt my knee being overweight and starting to run, so should I lose weight before I start doing the exercises that you have on this video or do I just start doing it at the same time losing weight?

[alishawaliakaur]

Can we do these exercises for knee chondromalacia patella?

[PatriciaLivingston-vmyt]

Half are not doable with bone on bone, the other half are good. Thank you!