How to Use a Slant to Decline Knee Pain

Learning how to use a slant to strengthen your knees

Date: September 9, 2026

A slant is downhill.

Downhill puts more pressure on your knees.

Learning how to use that can strengthen your knees so life gets easier.

One exercise that helped build my knees is simply working on controlling my body downhill.

Use your off leg to find a pain-free level:

Farther behind you is less knee pressure.

As you reach farther in front, you increase the pressure.

(I worked through muscle burn - not knee pain - to dramatically reduce my knee pain!)

I also use a deeper squat, but counterbalance reduces the pressure on your knees and can help you build up.

Then you can go closer and heavier with a kettlebell or dumbbell.

You can go even closer and heavier with a barbell: “Zercher” (in crooks of elbows), front, or back.

For sports with knee injury concerns, I have to recommend loading, but I don’t pressure my own parents beyond the counterbalanced version, and I don’t want to pressure anyone beyond a load and range that feels good in that session.

Since this works the foot and ankle muscles downhill, I also use some form of calf raise emphasizing the other way.

Since this emphasizes the knees and legs, I also use some form of muscle development for the lower spine and backside.

Those 3 areas - full range strengthening for my ankles, knees, and lower back - were my foundation for getting the ability to dunk after major knee injuries. I’ve kept that ability for 13 years without a knee injury.

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Yours in Solutions,

Ben

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