{"id":470,"date":"2012-08-01T17:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T05:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2012-08-01T17:31:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T05:31:02","slug":"cycling-for-knee-strength-rehabilitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/cycling-for-knee-strength-rehabilitation.php","title":{"rendered":"Cycling for Knee Strength &#038; Rehabilitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"gareththomasnz\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/bodybuilding-2\/cycling-for-knee-strength-rehabilitation.php\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I am doing 3 months knee rehabilitation before I get back into my special forces style weight vest training.  That kind of training will reveal any weakness &#038; for me it turned out to be knee&#8217;s. Not surprising when doing 3 heavy long marches each week So if you saw my prior post on it I found a bunch of knee rehab programs which I am doing every day.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily I have found the best exercise of all is the stationary bike. Which brought to my attention a German sprint cyclist at the Olympics. This guy is getting in the news because of his bodybuilder level thigh development.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/images\/greipel-and-forste.jpg\" alt=\"cyclis legs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/images\/cyclists.jpg\" alt=\"cyclist legs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/images\/thigh.jpg\" alt=\"thigh\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/images\/big_legs.jpg\" alt=\"legs development\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/images\/biglegs.png\" alt=\"big legs\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freefitnessguru.com\/images\/biglegs2.jpg\" alt=\"cyclist big thighs\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By incorporating weights &#038; sprint training on a stationary bike the knees can be strengthened particularly by increasing development of the internal quadriceps which is often a cause of knee pain &#8211; when the quads are too weak in relation to the required load on the knees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I am doing 3 months knee rehabilitation before I get back into my special forces style weight vest training. That kind of training will reveal any weakness &#038; for me it turned out to be knee&#8217;s. Not surprising when doing 3 heavy long marches each week So if you saw my prior post on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[486,117,488,485,487],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bodybuilding-2","tag-big-legs","tag-cycling","tag-knee-rehabilitation","tag-quds","tag-thigh-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freefitnessguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}