Tight knees, irritability, overtraining?

**TargusMcArgus** · 29-07-2010 07:56 PM

Here's what's up. A week and a half ago, I skated hard. Real hard. I didn't slam my knees or anything; I just worked the hell out of my legs. Really pumping transitions (ramps, bowls, an' shit) hard and skating fast. Super workout, if you want to think of it that way. Two nights later I went to gymnastics. Strength training, stretching, and tumbling for an hour. My knees were still tight and my legs tired from the skateboard session. Afterward, my friend and I went out street skating for a good hour or so. I stretched a plenty after the gym, and again when I got home.

For the next couple of days, I found myself irritable, presumable due to my body being worked so hard. Now here I am a week and a half later, and my knees are still tight. It's painful to straighten my legs, and if I try fold them and sit on my heels, it hurts to the point that I almost cry.

I'm sure this will heal on its own, but what can I do to help speed up recovery? I already walk a great deal at work on most days. I've been rolling my quads to help with the knees, but it doesn't seem to do the trick. (I'm still doing it!) Does anybody have any insight?

**anfeyd** · 29-07-2010 09:57 PM

Is this in the joint or muscle or is it soreness or....I don't really understand the nature of where this pain/tightness is located.

**TargusMcArgus** · 30-07-2010 01:43 AM

Oh geez. It feels like muscle pain. Yea, I'll go with that one. It doesn't hurt at all to tap my knees. However, when this first happened, a massage thumper to one particular tip of a bone (the piece that connects the knee to the shin, I think) nearly brought me to tears. Not so much now. I really think this has to do with muscles and not joints.

Speaking of joints...

**anfeyd** · 30-07-2010 02:33 AM

Perhaps you should just keep smoking your weed. Move along.

I have nothing except for the fact that you were probably very weak before and you over exerted yourself, quadriceps in specific, to the 'point of no return' (which usually happens with the calfs more than anything) and now you're just on the road to recovery. Perhaps wait longer, do light exercises, perhaps light squats, to encourage blood flow to the area.