Travel/Hotel Knee Over Toes Guide

My favorite training tool - the one I pack when traveling

With a treadmill inclined and on low speed, you can build from smaller to larger pain-free steps.

I think of BACKWARD as an optional helper to improve ability DOWNHILL.

Downhill ability modifies by:

Size of step…

…slope…

…and load.

I started with only a few inches of pain-free range and I did NOT have to work through pain to build to full slant, full reach, and loaded!

A slant is the only equipment I pack because it’s my favorite training tool and it takes up very little space, but you can even roll up a towel to create some heel elevation.

Less pain downhill then makes it easier to win with deep squats.

However, I think of the deep SPLIT squat as an optional helper to the deep squat.

Higher front foot and assistance make it easier.

Lower and unassisted make it harder.

For advanced goals you can even load it.

This exercise was particularly helpful for me due to varying left and right knee injury history.

Now I don’t “need” it, but it’s also given me the benefit of great hip flexor flexibility, among other things. This one movement continues to give me a great return on investment.

I then like the deep squat with some heel elevation.

This isn’t necessary but it can help activate the muscles around the knees and make up for lost ankle mobility, which you’re already training with the deep split squat.

Now you have a progression of load AND CLOSENESS TO BODY, meaning: reaching out makes it easier.

Both heavier and closer to your body make it harder.

Conclusion:

“No knee over toes” was an UNDERSTANDABLE mistake from the 1970s.

Research now acknowledges this, and we now have smooth scales of application which have helped thousands of people to more freedom and less fear.

I hope this travel guide helps!

Yours in Solutions,

Ben

Full Knee Ability programming

USA-made slant (20” x 13” x 6” - 25 degrees - are the general dimensions to make your own)

Flexible, foot-shaped shoes - now in stock in blue and white!