More knee questions.
Well, this is my first time posting a thread so we'll see how it goes. I am 15 years old and I started taking Aikido about a month ago. I love it and would train at my dojo all day every day if I could. My problem is this; after beggining my class I notice that my knees are really hurting me. When I walk up stairs now, it's kinda painful or if a try to lift myself up using my knees. I noticed that it is also fairly painful to sit in seiza for me because it feels like it's streching my knees further than they want or have ever gone before. Maybe I'm just not flexible enough? If I were to put this into a question, I would say, is this pain I'm experiencing just normal strengthening of the knees or is something wrong and I should stop.(Not Aikido, but whatever makes my knees hurt.) I mean I'm only 15 and I've never had knee problems, I'm in the prime of my life! I plan to talk to my Sensei about it tonight.
Thanks
-Sean McDonnell
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