3 Quadriceps VMO Strengthening Exercises (for Any Level)

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  • @Uprighthealth
    @Uprighthealth  Год назад +9

    Check out these helpful resources for your knee pain!
    🎥Ben Patrick Teardrop (VMO squat): ruclips.net/video/aF9dWYfloOQ/видео.html
    🎥Why We Get Knee Pain: ruclips.net/video/dy5l1CtvN-s/видео.html
    🎥Knee Pain Workout for Beginners: ruclips.net/video/ZMUF3coCP4Y/видео.html
    🔖Knee Arthritis and Knee Pain NOT linked: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10852280/

    • @Equalizer5
      @Equalizer5 11 месяцев назад

      The question is, where did you get those shoes? Are they gym shoes, or what are they? They are very impressive.

  • @gehasafras
    @gehasafras Год назад +49

    You deliver so much info without any BS or showing off, it's great and refreshing

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +4

      I appreciate that!

    • @donroka1
      @donroka1 10 месяцев назад

      @@Uprighthealth I was a runner for 3 years, treadmill runner, i have little bit of cartilage consumption, i wasn't running for 11 month's ( walking regulary every day for 3 4 km in total) and today i tried just a little bit, i ran 500 m od speed 12, before that i was walking for about 1.1 km on highest incline (15) on speed 6, right now i don't feel any pain in my knees, but i feel like little bit of heat in my quads, in that vmo region, what do you think about that ?

  • @sarahcannon1624
    @sarahcannon1624 Год назад +23

    Oh yes!!!!! Finally I can feel them working!!!!!!!!! My issues are linked to VMO and I dont stick to the exercises because I dont feel they help. But this is definitely targeting the right bit!! Yessssss. Thankyoooooooooou 😊

  • @ginnyjollykidd
    @ginnyjollykidd Год назад +3

    I started with 5 reps on the ladder last week. This week I did 6 reps! I don't hurt,and the exercise did bring some fatigue burn.😊 I did not push through; I only put enough force as I could handle and let my VMO relax.
    I'm so proud of myself and happily excited!
    Thanks so much!👍👍👍😎😎😎

  • @BRPeterYoga
    @BRPeterYoga Год назад +13

    Hi Matt! Your channel and Knees Over Toes Guy are my favorites for learning all kinds of great stuff! I’m constantly sharing what I learn with my Yoga students. Win/Win! Thanks!

    • @thelaboringheart
      @thelaboringheart Год назад +3

      Matt and Ben saved me from knee surgery--my heroes!

    • @BRPeterYoga
      @BRPeterYoga Год назад +1

      @@thelaboringheart So happy for you! I’m doing my best to share what I’m learning from these guys with my yoga students. Lots of chronic concerns. I do what I can to support them. Have you watched Matt’s video, “One Shoulder Exercise Everyone Should Do?” I bought myself 3 lb weights and have been doing it a few times a week. I’m blown away by how much this has done for my neck and shoulders! Game Changer!

    • @thelaboringheart
      @thelaboringheart Год назад

      @@BRPeterYoga wow, I'll look it up right now!

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +1

      @@BRPeterYoga Nice job, Barbara! Make sure you challenge yourself by increasing the weight just a little bit over time!

    • @BRPeterYoga
      @BRPeterYoga Год назад

      Will do, Matt!

  • @trmangena2463
    @trmangena2463 Год назад +4

    You healed my knees ,through your excersizes

  • @irenemckenna3336
    @irenemckenna3336 Год назад +1

    Love your excercices and listening to your words of encouragement and common sense. Love your humour too, a good thing to awaken to.

  • @mspeaches1977
    @mspeaches1977 Год назад +4

    Thank u I'm going to try this today I've been doing your knee exercises for this past week and I can tell the difference ❤

  • @lmao6
    @lmao6 Год назад +1

    I am post acl surgery and my vmos have been struggling to regain strength. It’s hard for me to get into a deep squat right now, but I tried out the sitting leg curl with some resistance and I think this will be the exercise I needed to get myself back to full recovery 🙏

  • @johnt3563
    @johnt3563 Год назад

    Thanks!

  • @giakhalsa7971
    @giakhalsa7971 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much for your very clear, thorough, detailed, yet lighthearted information on this very important area of the body.❤
    I am 75 years old. I am in good shape. But squatting is getting harder for me. I think squatting is absolutely the best. I have watched your other videos on squatting. And I can see that this video is quite wonderful to help condition for the squats. Thank you thank you thank you.❤

  • @tarachaand8005
    @tarachaand8005 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much.. because of your help - my knees are great! Keep up the good work!!! ❤🎉

  • @sabinamock4799
    @sabinamock4799 Год назад +2

    I love your way you present the material and exercises.

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад

      I love the way you watch my videos! 😀

  • @xshu_.
    @xshu_. 2 месяца назад

    knee dislocation here, when i get healed up a bit more i'm gonna try this, thank you for these exercises.

  • @michelemeixner7604
    @michelemeixner7604 Год назад +1

    Thank you so much!! Excellent vid & great shout out to Ben🙌
    I follow yours & his channel, & i think you guys are the best🤙

  • @sorenspirre
    @sorenspirre Год назад

    Wow, this exercise is a straight up painkiller! Awesome and huge thanks, Matt.

  • @smca7271
    @smca7271 Год назад +1

    It is amazing....been following your vids (and "atrophy hurts",love it)....my thighs vmo ache (hip capsule problem)....but if I wrap a dumbell to my foot with stretchy band and sit on a table and do some raises,it completely goes away,love it.

  • @dkaasf
    @dkaasf Год назад +4

    Matt you rock, thanks! I can feel the burn!

  • @distinguishedcravat
    @distinguishedcravat Год назад +1

    Def going to try this!! Thank You Matt for this video. After improving my labrum now I just gotta get these knees in order. Staying in bed during my injury really took a toll on my body. With this being my first injury I had no idea I was supposed to get up & move around while being injured. Lesson learned motion is my lotion✨ Hopefully one day once I’m back to work I’ll be able to afford fly to Cali to get some one on one training. Dreams come true! Continue Greatness

  • @ScottYdo
    @ScottYdo Год назад +2

    Thanks Matt.
    These videos are great.
    👍👍🎯

  • @dtoad5576
    @dtoad5576 Год назад +1

    YES knee over toes guy rules. i now do it every day . knees feel strong and awesome

  • @beav1962
    @beav1962 15 дней назад

    I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after 2 surgeries following a full horizontal patella break. The strength in my left leg is greatly diminished. I have been told to try to isolate my vmo for some strengthening. These will help. Thanks.

  • @RalphCornwellJr
    @RalphCornwellJr 10 месяцев назад

    Great information/explanation. The regressions/progressions are a must. Thanks

  • @FirearmTutorials
    @FirearmTutorials 10 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for sharing this!

  • @mcmjr405
    @mcmjr405 Год назад +3

    This is amazing and exactly what I was looking for!! Thank you! I am especially impressed by how you segwayed the knees over toes guy into your video. I can’t wait to do these exercises AND the exercises that you have shared and will share in the future.

  • @Newfie-d5s
    @Newfie-d5s 4 месяца назад

    Love you channel! Thank you 😊🙏🏻

  • @elizabethfraser2996
    @elizabethfraser2996 Год назад

    Thanks This could be life changing for me ! I will try it. I have been resisting the knife for years.

  • @francisrodriguez2369
    @francisrodriguez2369 Месяц назад

    i was a little skeptical of this being particularly effective vs any other quad exercise for the vastus medialus, but it really worked. i did it with a 10lb medicine ball and the soreness in my VMO was way beyond a normal squat or leg press etc. I'm not sure if it's the super deep, acute angle or staying under tension instead of fully extending the knee and standing between reps, but i'm def going to add this to my workout. i'm recovering from surgery to repair a torn patellar tendon and it's been a struggle to regain the lost muscle mass in my VMO in particular, and based on my first attempt i think this is going to help a lot.

  • @user-op1ku9vc8k
    @user-op1ku9vc8k 9 месяцев назад

    Love this
    Well explained with lots of motivation
    Thank you

  • @saleemahfareed4790
    @saleemahfareed4790 Год назад +1

    Thanks for sharing

  • @GoingGreenMom
    @GoingGreenMom Год назад

    Thank you for the modifications!

  • @susannekalejaiye4351
    @susannekalejaiye4351 Год назад +1

    I tried three of the easiest, beginning with sitting, then the step ladder highest step (it has two steps). Both of those went well, so I did the lower step: this is where I need to be a while.

  • @jilldavidson240
    @jilldavidson240 6 месяцев назад

    This is great just what I need 🎉

  • @ginnyjollykidd
    @ginnyjollykidd Год назад +1

    Thanks for this. I'm trying to get my knees to work for walking up and down stairs. Right now I can only do one stair step at a time. I want to get back to one foot after the other. And one of my goals is to get back to rock climbing. I miss it.
    My history is both broken ankles with pins and plate put in one leg. 2 courses of physical therapy for ankles. A few rounds of cortisone shots to reduce knee pain that became ineffective quickly. Physical therapy for knee (beyond cortisone shots). I still can't walk up and down steps in tandem,much less run up and down them like I want.
    I'm going to try this. I'm desperate for getting to normal use of my legs, feet, and joints, not just one at a time.

    • @ginnyjollykidd
      @ginnyjollykidd Год назад

      I just tried this on my own step ladder exactly like yours! I did 5 reps each knee,allowing, as you said, the knee to get used to the stretch.
      I am experiencing good feelings in my knees as I do when I properly exercise my other, commonly-exercised muscles like biceps and core muscles.
      I look forward to a few days from now to do it again!

  • @jyothi7576
    @jyothi7576 Год назад

    Great video very helpful ❤

  • @trmangena2463
    @trmangena2463 Год назад

    Will definitely try it

  • @peggyjohnson1848
    @peggyjohnson1848 Год назад

    Love these videos! You are great.

  • @bonnieprice887
    @bonnieprice887 Год назад

    Matt, my knees hurt just watching this!

  • @shag813
    @shag813 Год назад

    Thank you

  • @starry.nights.
    @starry.nights. Год назад

    Excellent video. Subscribed.

  • @runcoweezrun8143
    @runcoweezrun8143 Год назад

    Excellent!

  • @joe18750
    @joe18750 Год назад

    Outstanding. Thanx!

  • @patriciavarga4084
    @patriciavarga4084 Год назад

    I like this!! Thank you!

  • @mta01ajd
    @mta01ajd Год назад +1

    ...and yet everything else I've even found talks about shallow squats or extensions focusing on that last few degrees before straight! (Ignoring strength at every length I guess 😉)
    Thank you so much for this, I'll be trying starting tonight, I've never gotten a good burn in the VMO so hoping for better!

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +2

      I know! That's what makes the exercise so mind-blowing. The accepted "right answer" clearly doesn't work. This method clearly DOES. 🔥

    • @mta01ajd
      @mta01ajd Год назад

      @@Uprighthealth Thanks Matt, I've just watched Ben's teardrop squat video too. Great stuff 👍

  • @kumbackquatsta
    @kumbackquatsta Год назад +1

    please do a vastus lateralis video next

  • @ActionHankBeard
    @ActionHankBeard Год назад

    When I was younger I fell through a glass door and cut my patella tendon below the knee cap. I had to get stitched up was on crutches and in a leg brace for a while. Once it healed my patella moved up higher on my thigh and my left leg experienced some atrophy. I want to know if its possible to regain some muscle through these exercises? I've been trying to strengthen my leg but I can't really tell if its activating the VMO muscle and its bumming me out.

  • @uuiwindi
    @uuiwindi 17 дней назад

    Thank you for this, my legs can feel so weak sometimes. Btw, why do my knees pop when I do the leg extensions?

  • @hardy_does_alot
    @hardy_does_alot 9 месяцев назад

    wow, super helpfull!

  • @artsyhonkerful
    @artsyhonkerful Год назад +3

    Fantastic. I can't deep squat yet, and the split squat version was a pretty challenging hip stretch for me but by the end of the second set I could feel the VMO actually working. If I understand correctly, working on my knee strength in this range of motion should also help with eventually getting strong enough to do deep squats -- which I would love to be able to do. Am I correct in that? I know you have various videos with other exercises to help with both joint flexibility and strength for getting to the point of being able to deep squat comfortably and safely. I'm trying not to take on too many new movements at once though: I want to give my body time to adapt.

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад

      That's right AND good idea on taking it slow and limiting how many different new things you do!

  • @SheThe1Who
    @SheThe1Who Год назад +1

    Love the Sofstar shoes! I love all of their primal series,mmm 👣

  • @roberthoffhines5419
    @roberthoffhines5419 Год назад +1

    I'm 59. My left VMO screamed, so after two, I sent to the split squat on the stair which was almost too easy. I'll wait two days and see how I feel, but work the split squat for a week or so before going full again.

  • @roosterillusion1985
    @roosterillusion1985 Год назад

    Thanks for the suggestions. What do you do if you are trying the sitting knee extension but you have tight hamstrings?

  • @daveparsons7756
    @daveparsons7756 Год назад

    Should we concentrate on doing the VMO squat on our toes? I only ask as I can go flat footed with no ankle issues.
    Thank you👍🏻

  • @thenwaiho6646
    @thenwaiho6646 3 месяца назад

    Is this exercise good for knee tendonitis pain?

  • @emmajohnston7339
    @emmajohnston7339 Год назад +1

    would be interested to hear your thoughts of usefulness of slantboard for beginners, i keep seeing knees over toes guy using it, but it's hard to understand if it makes things easier or harder, or what's the benefit

  • @francesherman9083
    @francesherman9083 Год назад +3

    Should I even do this if my knee is already in bad pain?

  • @yorutorut1922
    @yorutorut1922 6 месяцев назад

    Usefull

  • @lynnberg253
    @lynnberg253 Год назад +1

    Shattered my right ankle 30 years ago. It has ten screws and a plate. It doesn’t bend enough to do this. I may be able to sit and do the late in the episode exercise.

  • @deborc2705
    @deborc2705 Год назад

    What shoes are you wearing? Is there a link you can share?

  • @lauratempestini5719
    @lauratempestini5719 Год назад +1

    Mat in your presentations can you present the easier method first and then add the more advanced movements and stretches

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +1

      In most videos I do that. In this video I felt it was important to show it hardest to easiest so you clearly see what you're eventually trying to achieve. 💪

  • @jjjjj-y2d
    @jjjjj-y2d 8 месяцев назад

    What is the brand's name of your chair you're sitting on if I may ask?

  • @shirleywilkinson9335
    @shirleywilkinson9335 Год назад

    Can you do these if you have had knee surgery?

  • @ritapampanin
    @ritapampanin Год назад

    I needed this one! Matt, sorry to ask you here, but did you get my donation of Feb 1?

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад

      Hi Rita! Yes, I just checked my paypal account and saw your GENEROUS $100 donation! Thank you very much! 🙏🔥

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад

      I actually thanked you in this video! ruclips.net/video/Km2LSneB4-4/видео.html 😀

    • @ritapampanin
      @ritapampanin Год назад

      @@Uprighthealth Of course….the one I missed!

  • @Sourab-cx6us
    @Sourab-cx6us 4 месяца назад

    Sir can I do this exercise in ligament injury??

  • @naglaakhaled5259
    @naglaakhaled5259 6 месяцев назад

    I tore my acl a while back and ever since then my knees have struggled i went to dr after dr and i never got better I’m hoping this would fix it😅

  • @GuidoSmeets385
    @GuidoSmeets385 Месяц назад

    My hamstrings are really short, is it okay to lower my upper leg a bit on the couch version?

  • @vvvii6153
    @vvvii6153 Год назад

    Thanks for the video, very helpful! Is it safe to do if I have a small meniscus tear? (nothing serious, just don't want to make it worse)

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +1

      Read this article (meniscus tears mentioned in the middle): www.uprighthealth.com/blog/avoid-orthopedic-surgery-joint-pain

  • @user-sw5ih6xk1d
    @user-sw5ih6xk1d 10 месяцев назад

    I'm curious about the differences between VMO Sitting Knee Extension and Leg Extension in terms of their effects.

  • @emmajohnston7339
    @emmajohnston7339 Год назад

    at first i was confused bec the way you are doing it seems different from the way i have seen him do it, using a slant board and going straight down; i wasn't able to do his, but if this is a regression from that, it's great as it seems easier

  • @mariannebrown6652
    @mariannebrown6652 Год назад

    What is your recommendation for recovering from a compression fracture in the lumbar vertebrae L1. Not caused by osteoporosis. I fell on a hard surface

  • @ranasharjeelkhan1194
    @ranasharjeelkhan1194 Год назад

    Can i do these exercises? I am suffering with Grade 2 tear Posterior horn of medial meniscus and Buckling of PCL?

  • @marilynnsuire876
    @marilynnsuire876 Год назад

    I need an exercise for above knee fat

  • @estreya541
    @estreya541 Год назад

    Can the sitting execise be done laying down.Just recovering from surgery, but need to strengthen my leg muscles? thank you

  • @donroka1
    @donroka1 10 месяцев назад

    I was a runner for 3 years, treadmill runner, i have little bit of cartilage consumption, i wasn't running for 11 month's ( walking regulary every day for 3 4 km in total) and today i tried just a little bit, i ran 500 m od speed 12, before that i was walking for about 1.1 km on highest incline (15) on speed 6, right now i don't feel any pain in my knees, but i feel like little bit of heat in my quads, in that vmo region, what do you think about that ?

  • @ap5194
    @ap5194 Год назад

    My knee tracks laterally because of vmo weakness. It's visually pulled out to the outside at all times. Will this help with tracking?

  • @belle6219
    @belle6219 Год назад

    That deep squat, no way. But I'm happy to find I can do the split squat quite easily, with a chair next to me to help maintain balance. Will do these in moderation until I feel safe to progress lower.

  • @AD-jc9sj
    @AD-jc9sj 3 месяца назад

    Been getting pain on leg press and leg extensions and just don’t know what to do. It’s so annoying.

  • @davidmcclatchey2133
    @davidmcclatchey2133 2 месяца назад

    So what goes on in the knee to make it feel like it's going to explode when moving into a deep squat? My knees are like that and I don't know why.

  • @someblokecalleddave1
    @someblokecalleddave1 Год назад

    Matt; The quiver - all thrusters or do you surf twin fins?

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +1

      I have a twin fin, a couple thrusters, and a configurable 5-fin that I prefer as a quad. None of them make me a ripper. 😅

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +1

      And two longboards.

    • @someblokecalleddave1
      @someblokecalleddave1 Год назад

      @@Uprighthealth I've got a quiver of 3, but 2 of them are old. One's a massive 9'6" long board from around 1968 which weighs an absolute tonne and the other is 5'10" Fish Thruster from around 1985/6 bought off an Aussie bloke who spent the summer at the beach I lived on over the summers of 86 and 87 life-guarding. I caught up with him in the early 2000's on FB and he informed me that this board was made for one of the famous Aussies from 85/86 on the world pro circuit. He hadn't liked it and gave it to him and he then sold it to me. At 62 and 300 miles from the beach I rarely get to do it now. Should sell 'em really, they''re probably worth a fair bit.

  • @BBoyRiffRaff
    @BBoyRiffRaff Год назад

    Is it ok if the feet are flat? I am a breakdancing instructor of 22 years and my ankles mobile. Thank you!

  • @BrianDG1001
    @BrianDG1001 Год назад

    is it okay to ice my knees after every exercise?

  • @gijoyjoy
    @gijoyjoy Год назад

    Why do the heels need to be off the ground?

  • @MichelleHavens-z9k
    @MichelleHavens-z9k Год назад

    Any ATM suggestion for avoiding injections and surgery for a partially torn proximal hamstring tendon (that happened in 2018 but everyone diagnosed as FAI :-/)? Thank you!

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад +2

      Don't get caught in RIIPS: www.uprighthealth.com/blog/riips
      And train your hamstrings to be strong at varying lengths. SHORT and LONG.

  • @Nibiru_-_Gen_Z_Warlock
    @Nibiru_-_Gen_Z_Warlock Год назад

    my legs are quivering, mostly while doing the last 2 but not the main first workoutsup with that?

  • @lauratempestini5719
    @lauratempestini5719 Год назад

    Just heard of him!
    On Dr Berg’s channel. He teaches the importance of walking backwards

  • @kathyshokouh2733
    @kathyshokouh2733 5 месяцев назад

    I can go down that low but cant get back up ! Any suggestions ?

  • @13c11a
    @13c11a Год назад

    Thank you so much. Sometimes you talk a bit fast. I listen slow. Thanks again.

  • @Memee833
    @Memee833 Год назад

    Heyup Matt, what are those shoes, And can ya list the benefits of them, & are they good for people that have had Planta fasciitis. or anyone here know. Thanks

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/qOLUDIogm0Y/видео.html

  • @hikerJohn
    @hikerJohn Год назад

    @ 1:00 . . I can do this without holding on to anything. Even adding 50 pounds of weight. It does not hurt but I'm still battling patellofemoral pain syndrome (what my doctor calls it) that comes and goes in severity but I don't feel like I've had a proper diagnoses despite being to the doctor TWICE and having xrays that show I have healthy knees. How does one get a definitive diagnoses???
    I dont have big quads but I dont feel much burn unless I do about 30 of those squats but I have been hiking for many thousands of miles. What really makes then burn is the leg extension machine at the gym that I hate going to because of all the people that have no *etiquette* and just camp out on equipment. They just sit there and play with their phones between reps. And they dont share even if you ask them. Makes me want to punch them in the face but that would ruin my day even more.

  • @zehralokhandwala2641
    @zehralokhandwala2641 Год назад

    Have a swollen on my knee sides

  • @potapotapotapotapotapota
    @potapotapotapotapotapota Год назад

    When I started riding a bike to work every day back when I was a teenager my VMO's blew up like balloons. It was so weird to look at hahaha.

  • @Inception109
    @Inception109 Год назад

    My right hip rotators are tight. One right leg has become shorter because of that. I feel tightness in back of my hips. When i do pigeon strech, it get better for 15 minutes, but after sometime it get back to how it was before ( tight and short). I don't know what to do. Please help

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад

      Pelvic rotation videos:
      ruclips.net/video/wImvBCm8dYE/видео.html
      ruclips.net/video/w5aq2MTsgOs/видео.html

  • @CLHB90
    @CLHB90 3 месяца назад

    Knee extension. If you'd only hear how my knees are cracking and popping. I'm always just waiting for knee to fall into million pieces.

  • @Esthermyrrh
    @Esthermyrrh 8 месяцев назад

    I thought it isn’t ok to have the knees go over the toes when rising from squatting

  • @cricri2794
    @cricri2794 Год назад

    Curious...you are a physio ? Or...what else ? Thanks 😊

  • @user-cl7fm1uc4r
    @user-cl7fm1uc4r Год назад

    I keep hearing rice kirspys every time I go down. Stopped immediately and it hurt. What do I do? I'm sacred man!

    • @Uprighthealth
      @Uprighthealth  Год назад

      DO WHAT I SAID IN THE VIDEO!!!!
      DO THE EASIER EXERCISES!!!!! DO THE LAST ONE IN THE VIDEO FOR ABSOLUTE EASIEST

  • @JeanJacob-l7g
    @JeanJacob-l7g 4 месяца назад

    Myrna Road

  • @ChristyNoah-u9c
    @ChristyNoah-u9c 5 месяцев назад

    672 Roberts Haven

  • @LowellWarner-b9k
    @LowellWarner-b9k 4 месяца назад

    Alisha Harbor

  • @smca7271
    @smca7271 5 месяцев назад

    Yup stay away from romanian split squat with weights until you've done these....painful to walk today