Has anyone had experience with their legs buckling underneath while running. I can feel good one minute and then the next my quads severly tighten and I can't control the landing at all and feel like I am going to fall. This is really interfering with my training and any advice or corrective exercises would be appreciated.
Yeah, that's called epilepsy
Buckle man wrote:
Has anyone had experience with their legs buckling underneath while running. I can feel good one minute and then the next my quads severly tighten and I can't control the landing at all and feel like I am going to fall. This is really interfering with my training and any advice or corrective exercises would be appreciated.
I've never noticed this problem.
is it a cramp? do you have enough sodium and potassium?
no it is not a cramp. It is just a sever tightening of the quads. I guess the best way to describe it as the feeling you would get if you ran repeatedly up and down a sand dune and you get to the stage where you just can't lift your legs. However this feeling is suddenly happening early on in my training sessions without any hills. I have never had this problem up until this season.
I have this problem right now, and I have no idea where it came from but it is very debilitating. If the original poster is still viewing these boards, did you find a solution?
I haven't had any problems for a while now. The exercise that seemd to work for me was to lie on a golf ball and do trigger point releases through my vastus lateralis (outside quad muscle) and my ITB. It hurts like hell initiallt but you get a good response after doing it daily for a couple of weeks. Hope it helps.
thanks for the reply. did you take any time off or continue running (or attempt to) while working on the trigger points?
"*whispering* Galebach, really struggling here... he's... he's so close, he's been running so well.... Unnhhhh.... Galebach goes down, and it's Cardenas.... Galebach......"
Funny that you mention Galebach, because I thought about starting up a new thread and mentioning him in hopes of describing what I'm feeling. Obviously, mine isn't quite that bad since I'm not racing all out right now, but what happened to him is what would happen to me daily if I were to push really hard. I try to keep the buckling and giving out sensation somewhat manageable (although still very uncomfortable) by trotting along at an easy pace. Distance workouts are out of the question right now.
He Was MASTURBATING!
He Was MAS-TUR-BA-TING!
kept running through. If you work hard enough on the trigger points and be consistent with it most days you will eventually sort yourself out. Let us know how you go.
It's a sign of imminent death.
for an update, running has become progressively more difficult, although some days are better than others. I went to see a sports doctor today who thinks it may be a circulatory issue. he told me not to run at all until that has been ruled out.