How to prevent knee soreness from hiking.

🚨 Disclaimer: There are a lot of reasons why you may experience knee soreness after hiking. If you're experiencing anything painful, make sure to check in with a physio before diving into any exercise program.

But, if you're experiencing general soreness, one way we can prevent that is by building up strength and range of motion in the muscles that act upon the knee joint and exposing our body in small doses to the movements that downhill hiking requires.

We want to SHARE the workload between the joints above and below the knees!

The VMO muscle we're targeting in this video helps that kneecap track properly while hiking and provides lateral support to the knee while assisting in knee extension (or slowing down that knee flexion as we walk downhill).

TIP 👉 The VMO is going to be most targeted in the first four inches of this movement, so you do not need to go super deep to get a huge impact.