CONTORTURE®

Hi!

One of my knees hurt when I'm in the lunge, and sometimes when I'm in the cobra and backbend positions. Whenever I am fighting to tuck in the tail bone and tighten the abs it feels like the muscles in my thigh gets pulled and it hurts in my left knee.

I have previously been able fo work around it in the lunge position by having a wall behind me and bending the left leg resting it up against the wall (like my heel is touching my but). I can't do this in the contorture lunge as I am supposed to bend backwards thus hitting my head in the wall.

Do any of you have any tips or tricks to help? I have tried putting pillows or yoga blocks under the knee, but I don't feel like it helps.

Best regards
Hanna

Hi Hanna!
Firstly so happy to have you in The CONTORTURE® Chamber and Secondly lets sort out this Knee Situation!
The engagement of the hamstring could possibly translate down through the knee while in the lunge...perhaps for a bit of time avoid keeping the knee on the floor and take a straight back leg square hipped lunge. While yes this will be a bit more challenging/difficult, it may alleviate the impingement.
You may also need to strengthen the surrounding muscles of the knee with weighted stationary leg extensions...
Give these a try and hopefully it will bring some relief...otherwise sounds like the CONTORTURE® is going strong and if you’d ever like to go over “fine tuning” send me a message, DMs on Instagram is generally best.
:)
Jonathan