Strength training should be apart of your exercise plan if you have MS, and wall squats will help strengthen your leg muscles.
- Stand about a foot from the wall, with your back to the wall.
- Lean back so your shoulders, torso, and hips are flat against the wall.
- Slowly slide down the wall about an inch, but not to where your booty is all the way out. Bending your knees and keeping your body flat against the wall so that your knees are parallel (or nearly parallel) to the floor.
- Hold that position for about 5 seconds and then push with your legs to the starting position.
Begin with about five repetitions until you familiarize yourself with the movements, if you fall down its okay get back up and try again. Just get to familiarize yourself with how far you can go down and come back up with a good form.
If your knees bother you don’t slide down as low.
Hand weights and leg weights can be added to this exercise but I do not recommend them until you get comfortable with what you are doing.
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