Advice needed!
Hi!
I’m VERY overweight. Used to be very fit, quite liked running and then injury and mental health over took me and I stopped. Packed the pounds on and am not trying to get to a decent level of fitness.
I have ankle problems but until now, no knees issues.
I did week 1 reasonably easily, but have now repeated it 3 times. The second week, I felt great for the first two runs after increasing speed and distance, but the third run and the first two of my third repeat have left me with sore knees.
They recover without any help by the next run, but are sore again very quickly.
I’m running on both treadmills an grass with no noticeable difference in pain. My ankles stop me running always on grass though.
I am a teacher so on my feet all day, but not active - lots of standing around waiting for kids to write stuff.
On the in between days, I am doing body weight exercises like squats/lunges/scissors etc.
I also have a dog and we go for at least one decent (5 mile+ walk a week).
Is this knee pain something I should push past?
Are there exercises I should do to support my knees?
Should I continue to do week 1 until the knee pain reduces or go onto Week 2? I can work on speed/gradient for a sense of achievement haha.
Is there a point when it’s not worth repeating Week 1 anymore?
Sorry for the long post! Also not sure if should flair it this or Week 1?!